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“Don’t stop,” she gasped.“Oh gods.Oh…oh.”Her thighs slammed shut around my head, as she rocked against my face, coming hard for me, coating my tongue with her sweet-as-fuck honey.

When she finally collapsed back, I slowly, carefully eased my tongue from her pussy, lapping up all of her sweetness before lifting my head.Panting, she watched as I licked my lips, as my tongue returned to a more human form.

“Holy shit.”She gasped for breath.

I gripped her thighs and yanked her down the bed.“You want more?”I trailed kisses along her inner thigh, wringing a whimper from her.

She blinked up at me as I leaned over her.“I…this was?—”

“The best orgasm you’ve ever had?”

She squeezed her thighs against me.“No…I mean, yeah, but that wasn’t what I was going to say.”

I wanted to see her naked.I could control myself.I could strip her bare and not fuck her.I slid my hand up her shirt, and hers came down on mine.

I dragged my other hand down her soft belly, and she stopped me again, a wild look in her eyes.“Sutton?”

She shook her head.“I’m not sure we should have done this.With all that’s going on, maybe this was a mista?—”

I growled, loud.“Don’t you fucking say it.”

“Come on, Charming, things are a complete mess between us.Adding this”—she motioned to my mouth—“to the mix while everything is so fucked up is a bad idea.”

“Why?”She was wrong.I just had to make her see it.

“Why?”she repeated.

“Yes.”

“Because you rejected me, multiple times, and because I don’t trust easily…and honestly?I don’t trust you.Not yet.I don’t know if I’m capable of it.It’s not your fault, not really, it’s just—the way I am.”

“I’m not your family, Sutton.I’m not fucking them.I know I hurt you, baby, and I regret that more than you will ever know, but I’m not them, and I won’t do that shit again.”

She chewed her lip.“I want to believe you.”

“Then get to know me, spend time with me.Let me change your mind.”I would never let her go, but if she needed to hear that I would if she chose it, then I’d tell her what she needed to hear.“If at the end of all of this, you still don’t trust me, then I’ll walk away.”

“You don’t mean that, and I don’t want to hurt you.I saw what Kurgan was feeling.I felt it, the pain inside him.There was other damage, things…power inside him I didn’t understand, but being parted from his mate like that had caused a vicious scar inside him that was making everything so much worse, it’s driving him mad.”

Hearing that, having it confirmed settled like a boulder in my chest.“Kurgan is half my age, damaged in a way that even Lucifer can’t heal.What you felt, it won’t happen to me.You don’t need to worry about that.”I was lying.My craving for Sutton would only increase, would never leave me, and I had to hope that spending time with her, trying to show her the male I was, the male I wanted to be, would make her forgive and trust me again, like she had before I fucked everything up.

She bit her lip.“I can’t make you any promises right now, Jagger.My life is so complicated.Until Luke is safe and Tarrant is off my back, getting into anything serious with you, it just…it’s too much.”

“Then we take it one day at a time, yeah?No pressure.Can you give me that?”I asked, trying to keep the desperation off my face and out of my voice.I was willing to die with this female, to have Lucifer take me out when her time came, but I had no idea how to show her that, how to show her just how much she meant to me.

She nodded.“I can give you that.”There was still wariness in her eyes, though.

I leaned in slowly, giving her a chance to pull away.She didn’t.“Thank you,” I rasped and took her mouth in another kiss.

Sutton pulled away from the kiss first, and it was hard, but I let her.

“I need to get back to my place,” she said.“Boo’s there on his own, and I have product to make for Tarrant.It’s going to take most of the night.I need to get it done before my shift tomorrow.”

“Okay, sunshine,” I said, then stood, taking her with me.“I’ll take you home.”

ChapterTwenty

Sutton