Dark Desires After Dusk (Immortals After Dark #6)(77)

She sucked in a breath. “Who are you? Need a job? I already don’t need one—I love what I do. Was this your play all along?”

“There was no play. We work better as a team, with me as the front man.”

“What the hell does that mean?”

“We need to stick together, to keep the work together. We could be unstoppable.”

Here was a man who actually wanted her for her brain. Or, at least, he wanted to use what it could do.

“Be realistic, Holly. You can barely get to classes without me. How well were you going to do in the corporate world?”

“Oh, my God.” Red covered her vision. What had Cadeon called Tim? Oh, yes . . . “You know what, you f*ckwit tosser—you can have that goddamned work.” Lightning struck outside, and it felt right. “I’m on to something so much bigger. Something that’s going to rock our industry.”

“Holly, just wait—”

“Don’t ever contact me again. Or I will nail your balls to the wall over this.” Click.

Deep breath, deep breath. She waited for the tears to come. And waited.

Yet all she felt was a sense of relief. How freeing . . . She was done with guilt, free from indecision.

Holly had no obstacles now—if Cadeon tried more, she wouldn’t rebuff him. The idea gave her a giddy thrill of expectation.

Actually, she might try for more. Even more than Cadeon would expect . . . .

*

“The male’s back with food . . . ” He trailed off when she stood before him, wearing only that black silk number she sometimes slept in—the one that guaranteed he’d be wide awake and hard as rock for hours.

“I’m not hungry.” The lights were low and the bedspread was drawn down.

“But you need to eat,” he said absently as she sauntered up to him.

Her eyes had begun to grow silvery. “Maybe I’m hungry for something else.” She took the bag of food from him and tossed it away.

His brows drew together. “Uh, what happened between the time I went for food and now?”

“I broke up with Tim.”

Cade’s heart began to thunder, and damn if she didn’t notice.

“You really like that news, huh?” She smiled.

“What’s not to like? But why now?”

“He stole credit for my research. And he was after the code I’m working on now.”

Cade went still, fury spiking through him. “Holly, I’m going to give you his throat for this.”

“Aw, you say the sweetest things, demon.” She stood on tiptoe and pressed a gentle kiss to his lips.

Deciding he’d kill Tim for her anyway, he relaxed and said, “I know how to play those heartstrings, yeah?”

She unbuckled Cade’s belt. “I called him a f*ckwit tosser.”

“That’s my girl.” He stripped off her top, then his shirt. “Are you coming on to me to get back at him?”

“Probably.” Down went his zipper.

“I’m okay with that.”

And if he’d thought this couldn’t get any better, she bit her bottom lip and said, “You told me you’d fantasized about me, um, going down on you. What if I wanted to try it?”

Trying to keep his cool, he grinned down at her. “Then you’d be my best girl . . . .”

Once they were naked in bed, and she’d begun kissing down his torso, he swallowed hard. Would she lose her nerve? Don’t lose your nerve, Holly . . . .

She took him in hand. A first halting lick was followed by another. Soon she was circling all around the head with wet flicks of her tongue.

“That’s it, Holly,” he groaned, “just like that.”

“You taste so good,” she murmured in a delighted tone.

He struggled not to thrust to her hot tongue, but the instinct to move his hips was so powerful. “Suck it inside your mouth,” he rasped. She did, making him arch his back sharply. “Ah! What are you doin’ to me?”

Hastily pulling back, she said, “Am I doing something wrong?”

“Everything’s too right.” Hand palming her head, he pressed her back down. “I fear I’ll come before I’m ready.”

With a satisfied smile, she rubbed her cheek against his shaft, then continued. He pulled her hair out of the way so he could see his female pleasuring him like this.

A fantasy made flesh. After so long.

Bending his knee, he raised his leg so she straddled it, her wet sex against it.

She moaned around him, one of those sharp, yearning cries that made him frenzied to pleasure her. Immediately, he reached for her hips, pulling her toward him.

“Cade? I liked that . . . .” She trailed off when he repositioned her, settling her knees by each side of his face, her mouth at his cock.

“Then you’ll love this,” he rasped before he lost himself in licking strawberry blond curls. Her sex was so hot, the flesh exquisitely tender. He licked in bliss.

But she froze. “Cadeon?” She sounded stunned. He dug his heels into the bed and thrust up. After a hesitation, she took him between her lips again, her mouth soon growing greedy. The shy virgin was gone, replaced by a hungry, demanding Valkyrie who expected to give and get pleasure.

With his hands splayed over her ass, he gripped her, holding on to her as she wickedly rocked her sex against his mouth.