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Prove it

Okay I would prove the shit out of the fact that I could do what I had to do in order to make this scheme of mine work I could pretend to like her, which really was the only thing that would be fake I couldn’t reconcile the way aze on me with the fact that she had orchestrated a man’s murder She was beautiful but she was also deadly She was just as hard as this place we caainstafter a woman who had it in her to be just as cold, and just as calculating, as any other criminal I locked up on a day-to-day basis was nowhere for ed ex-lover

I was pissed off when I bent my head toward her I was h, I was furious that either one of us had to be in this situation in the first place Every ti or bad person was nipping atharder and harder to stay a step ahead Eventually I was going to trip up and go down and there would be no one left with any kind of conscience in this place, no one left that cared about justice and righteousness

That anger hadas I reached up and used my thumbs to tilt her head back so her mouth was pointed up at me I didn’t have much time to date, didn’t have the patience for a wo to save an entire city from itself and that y The woht, or the perfect size, and they sure as hell never looked as luscious and as te as this woman did No one had ever fit me the way she did and that pissed me off even more

Everything about her was a test of my will The way her dark eyes flashed when I lowered my head toward her parted lips The way her hand trailed up ot closer and closer The way she breathed out a soft little sigh that tickled my mouth when I finally touched my lips to hers It was supposed to prove a point It was supposed to be an act of defiance, andbut a kiss and I forgot who she was and what it was supposed to be about After that half a heartbeat I just wanted to kiss her and keep on kissing her until both of us were naked, and I was balls-deep inside of that perfect, traitorous body of hers

Her mouth was soft, which was a lie because she was not a soft woht look like a dream and taste like dessert, but I knew there was a lot of tart underneath that pretty outer shell Her tongue darted out and the very tip of it touched the center of , I was kissing her like I kissed a wo to resist

I hadthat leverage to back her against the fliasp of surprise and I took full advantage of the way her lips parted to dive right inside I wanted to devour her I wanted to eat her up I wanted to stay in this ainst ainst my chest The way her mouth moved onapart around me There was no city on the brink of ruin that I felt responsible for, there was just this wos apart with ue with my own

I felt the bite of her fingernails cut into the skin at the base of my neck I felt her hips arch up to s lined up perfectly with the softness between hers It was aluy and often felt like I had to rein myself in when it came to the opposite sex I didn’t want to inti, but with Reeve I didn’t have to worry about it She took everything I was throwing at her and returned it in a way that had ression slip a little Things deep down inside of me roared and awoke from where they typically sluun clipped to my belt, where it felt like it permanently lived She kept her hands up around my shoulders and let me ravish her like she wasI had never felt starved for anything in my life until my lips touched hers

I let my teeth bite into the plush curve of her bottoh in her hair as I jerked her head back farther and dove deeper into the hot and welco atin ing from where it was shoved in my pocket

I let go of her and stu hard and both flushed Her eyes were al white hot with everything inside of ood and so bad at the exact same time

I yanked the phone out of my pocket and put it to my ear with a barked, “What?”

I felt like I couldn’t breathe and she just stayed slu eyes I alue out to dab at the moisture and tiny drop of blood I had left on her entle kiss I hadn’tlashes dipped down a little when she saatching her and it kicked in that she liked it She liked the edge She liked the violence Of course she would

“I know you just went off shift but I got a DB out on the docks that you ht want to look at” I couldn’t place which fellow detective the voice belonged to but it was obviously soood in the Point, I was the first call that generally went out

DB was short for “dead body” and I absolutely did not want to go look at it I had seen plenty of theh lowered at Reeve as she finally pushed off the door and wandered back over to sit on the bed I cringed It really was too disgusting to touch

“What makes you think I want to see it?”

“Because she’s just a kid No hteen or nineteen”

I swore and started to pace back and forth “Yeah, that’s shitty but not uncommon”

“Yeah, well, the reason I called you is because she looks a whole hell of a lot like the bo black hair, blue eyes At first glance it could be her but she’s younger and worked over in a really personal way”