remembered the one time he’d had her. Sent to mark her, he’d expected to merely toy with the woman his brother had spent a decade pining for. Then he’d passed her in the Gadara Tower atrium and found himself wanting her regardless of Cain.
Her gaze had followed him, filled with such hunger he felt it lick across his skin. That look had made him so eager to fuck her, he’d ripped the clothes from her body. Hurry, he had growled. The encounter had been over almost as soon as it began, yet it haunted him to this day.
Shifting out of his clothes, he left them puddled on the floor. He loomed over her. Eve paused in the act of pulling up her shirt, staring at his body with a mixture of awe and desire that swelled his dick further. She licked her lower lip and he groaned, fisting himself to buy a little time.
Did she see Cain in him? He almost probed her thoughts to find out, but resisted the urge. How she viewed him now wouldn’t be the way she viewed him when he was done with her.
Eve reclined, half dressed, her pupils dilated from the Novium. She’d been scorching hot as a mortal. How much more intense would it be with her mark- enhanced body?
Reed’s lips twitched, incapable of a true smile with his mouth so dry. She was impatient to have him, to the point that she couldn’t be bothered to finish undressing.
“I won’t fuck you until you’re naked,” he warned.
With two hands, she caught the rounded collar of her pretty pink shirt and ripped it straight down the middle.
That single act hit him straight in the gut. His breath hissed out between clenched teeth. He cupped her knees and widened the spread of her legs, wanting to see what he’d coveted for the last few months. She trembled under his gaze, her lower lip caught nervously between her teeth as if fearing he would find fault with her.
He wished he could.
“Slide back,” he said roughly, following her retreat with one knee on the mattress, then the other. He pursued her across the California king until she reached the headboard and had nowhere left to go.
“Reed.” Her breathless voice dragged his gaze up to meet hers. “Don’t wait.”
She was panting, and he hadn’t even begun. Pressing his lips to her thigh, he hummed in chastisement. “Relax. This is going to take awhile.
“I have people here!”
He licked at the back of her knee. She shivered. “I wouldn’t care if all the archangels were here. I’m going to get my fill.”
Hurry up, damn you. She sounded winded in his thoughts, which told him how hot for it she was. Hot for him.
He pushed his hands beneath her buttocks. I’m going to do everything to you. Everything. As he lifted her to his mouth, her back bowed. I’m going to push so deep into you that you’ll miss me when I’m not there.
Her legs fell open, offering herself to him. His first lick was slow and soft. Deliberately teasing. She was slick and burning with need, writhing within his grasp.
She keened softly as he pierced her hard and fast. Don’t stop.. . don’t stop...
A quick flutter over her, then he stiffened his tongue and worked the tiny bundle of nerves at the apex, relishing her throaty pleas for more. Don’t stop...
He groaned and ground his hips into the mattress, knowing that he had to get her off now, fearing that he was too far gone to be able to bring her to orgasm later. He was spurred by the knowledge that this was Eve, the woman he wanted for reasons unrelated to sex. Now she was right where he wanted her—spread and willing, mewling with helpless pleasure. They were in the moment together, connected body and mind. He hadn’t known he was alone—an angel who stood apart—until he wasn’t alone any longer.
Reed grew more fervent, fueled by gratitude and an odd.. . joy. Afraid to be too rough with her, he siphoned the surfeit of lust through Eve and out to
Cain, where it could be disbursed to the others in the firm. The tactic bought him some control, allowing him to be gentle with her as he hadn’t been before.
Eve climaxed with her hands fisted in her comforter, her thighs shaking, the tender pink flesh beneath his lips spasming with a greed that might equal his own.
He rose to his knees, grasping her legs when they threatened to fall to