Still . . .
She couldn’t say no. Not right now.
Not like this.
Hadrian growled as she deepened their kiss. He couldn’t get enough of her.
Not after this raw, sensual taste and the newfound addiction to her buried him in a landslide.
With every breath, he wanted her more. Wanted to wear her scent on his skin.
Every beat of his heart was a reminder of how she made it race. How much he was grateful that she’d careened into his precarious life and set it on fire.
Even if she’d been sent there to abduct and then kill him.
I’m so fucked up.
But at least he knew it. And now that he held her . . .
Impatience grabbed hold of him.
They didn’t have time. Any moment, Hauk and Mordacity could return.
Still, he couldn’t withdraw from her. It’d been too long since he’d last been with anyone.
Way too long, now that he thought about it. But what choice did he have? He couldn’t afford to let anyone in to his screwed up life.
And yet Jayne had crawled inside him far deeper than anyone else. Maybe it was because she was silent to him.
With her, it was all discovery. Exploration.
The taste of her that lingered on his tongue.
Jayne pulled back, her gaze fixed on him as if nothing else existed. Before he could think or move, she nestled against his chest. Her arms wrapped around his ribs and a tightness he hadn’t noticed eased with her touch.
Her breasts pressed against him, and her hands fell way too close to the part of him that ached to merge with her.
Damn it . . .
How could he be this hungry for a woman who was supposed to end him?
Hell, at the rate they were going, he might die for want of her.
Her one hand dipped lower still and wrung a moan from deep within his soul.
“That’s what I want to hear.” She breathed against his ear.
In that moment, Hadrian felt his control slipping. “Jayne . . . you’ve no idea what you’re unleashing.”
“You won’t hurt me.”
She had no idea. One of the reasons he’d avoided sex as much as he could was what happened when Trisani were intimate. “It’s not that.”
Jayne gasped as she felt an unbelievable surge against her entire body. It was electric . . . like a thousand different tongues all over her. But more than that, she could feel Hadrian inside her even though they were both completely dressed.
Her heart hammering, she came instantly.
When she met Hadrian’s gaze, she saw that odd shade of blue that meant his powers were active.
