“What was the note you left in the kitchen?” she asked instead, pulling on herjacket.
“I requested Angelus to make you an applecake.”
“You did?” Her gaze widened, then she smiled. “It’s okay, I like baking. I wasn’t born into wealth, you know. My father was a farmer.Apples.”
“Where?”
“Stone Ridge, Upstate New York. I really loved it there…” A wistfulness entered her tone. “It was sopeaceful.”
“I like apples,too…”
“What?” She blinked. “But youdon’t…”
His gaze lowered to her chest. “They’re round, firm, and really delicious. I can eat them all day, everyday.”
She burst out laughing. His lips twitched in amusement. Only he could do that, make her smile when her heart was filled withsorrow.
“C’mon, my wildcat, let’s go.” He drew her close, and she put her arms around his waist. But at the tempting bulge nudging her, she couldn’t resist, and she slowly rubbed her hips against hisgroin.
He went utterly still, and without a word, he dematerialized them. The moment they took form on the shadowy side of the church, he slammed her against the wall, his mouth crashing onto hers. He kissed her deeply and, just as suddenly, pulled back, leaving her panting. His gaze heated to a brilliant yellow, he dropped to his heels and reached beneath the hem of her shortdress.
“Wait, wait!” She grabbed his thick wrists. “What are youdoing?”
He pulled off her underwear. Like a man possessed, he pushed her legs apart and put his mouth on her. She grabbed his head, pleasure igniting as his tongue parted her and he licked up her cleft and over her clit. A moan rushed free. “God! Dagan, we’re in achurch.”
“Outside,” he corrected against her flesh and deliberately hooked one of her thighs over his shoulder. With teeth, tongue, and lips, he sucked and nibbled, and she whimpered. He appeared determined to make her lose her mind. She’d had no idea her teasing would take such a sensual turn. Desire coalesced, her every sense focused on one part of her body. Her fingers tightened in his hair. Shae no longer cared that they were in the open as he tormented her with lazy licks. “Dagan,” she moaned, she was soclose.
A sharp tug on her clit and she cried out, her orgasm hauling her up as she broke apart. Birds roosting on the small shrubs nearby took flight in a rustle of wings. Arms steadiedher.
Breathing hard, she came back to her senses and found him watching her with an emotion she couldn’t decipher, one that made her heart race. He straightened her clothes and rose. “Tease me that way again, Shae-cat, and youpay.”
She wanted to glare at him. Instead, she panted. “I can’t believe you did that against a churchbuilding.”
A dark eyebrow arched. “And you’re complainingbecause?”
“Anyone could have seenus.”
“But the danger made you hot, admit it.” His tone lowered. “I love mouth-fucking you, but I really wished my cock had been inside you when youcame—”
“Oh, God.” She slapped a hand over his mouth, halting the sinfully erotic words, so sure her face must be brighter than her hair. But deep down, she wished the same. “Stopthat.”
He kissed her palm, then lowered it. “Why? I find I like my mouth on you, so fair warning, my sweet cat, I’ll continue to do so whenever I can—wherever I want.Ready?”
“My legs feel like jelly. I don’t think I can walk,” she grumbled, fighting to focus on why they’d come here and not on tackling him to the ground for more sexy fun. “Myunderwear?”
A hint of a smile, he handed it over. “Okay, wait here while I do a recon of thearea.”
Shae pulled on her underwear and slumped against the wall, her breath choppy, and her legs still wobbly from the unexpected sensual encounter—and in broad daylight,too.
Dagan slipped on his shades and stepped out from the building’s cool shadows. The weak, noonday sun gleamed off his blue-black hair as he strode across to the parking lot. With a wave of his hand over his loose tresses, like several invisible fingers working at once, the strands parted and wove into numerous warrior braids. He glanced about the place, appearing to study the air aroundthem.
Her legs functioning once more, Shae wandered over. “What are youdoing?”
“I’m trying to find a tear. It’s the only way all those demons appeared so suddenly last night when only four followedus.”
“Whattear?”
“It forms in the mystical veils that separate the realms, and it keeps this world safe from supernatural evil.” He frowned, his attention back on the gravelly surface. He hunkered down and put his open palm on the dirt-packed ground. “If there’s a crack in the veils, they’ll use it to enter this world, and we can’t allow that tohappen.”
