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“Thanks,” she told Zach ruefully as they strolled into the main area. “Your friends made this easier than I thought it was gonna be.”

“No problem,” the demon murmured.

The San Francisco PD guys who’d turned up had known the Argonaut agent. They’d taken her deposition there and then instead of insisting she go back to their precinct.

Suzie inspected the damage to the floorboards. They would need replacing. Again.

“Dane is gonna kick my ass when he sees this on Monday,” she muttered.

“It wasn’t exactly your fault,” Zach said.

She frowned at the demon’s slight emphasis on the word ‘exactly.’

His lips tilted in a faint smile when he clocked her expression.

“Where’s your first aid kit?”

“Behind the bar.”

He found the box, wrapped some ice in a towel, and sat her down in a booth. She hissed when he carefully cleaned her broken lip.

Zach paused and arched an eyebrow. “Want me to kiss it better?”

Suzie wrinkled her brow at his dry tone. It was bad enough that they were sitting so close their knees were touching and she could smell his cologne. Both were doing all kinds of crazy things to her breathing.

“You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”

He smiled. “You have quite the temper.” He sobered, his eyes darkening a little. “Although, I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn’t been here tonight.”

Suzie blinked. A muscle was twitching in Zach’s cheek. She raised a hand to his face, unable to stop herself. He stilled at her touch. She flushed and made to snatch her fingers away.

“Sorry. I?—”

Zach closed his hand over hers. “Don’t be.”

Suzie’s breath stuttered at his husky voice and the crimson points of light in the depths of his pupils. His skin was hot. So hot she feared he would burn her.

Zach’s lashes came down as he appeared to battle against some inner instinct. The redness had faded from his eyes when he opened them again.

Suzie couldn’t help the twinge of disappointment that darted through her. The demon took a shallow breath and pressed the makeshift ice pack to her lip.

“Why didn’t you call?” she blurted out.

Her pulse raced as she waited for his answer, the air between them so thick with sexual tension she was finding it hard to catch her breath.

“You didn’t give me your number.”

Suzie startled. “What?!”

Zach shrugged. “I mean, I could have found it out through Argonaut but I didn’t think you’d appreciate that.” He gave her a lopsided smile. “It would start our relationship on the wrong footing.”

Suzie’s stomach lurched at his words. She stared into his eyes and saw only the truth. She’d hoped this wild attraction between them was more than just lust. Zach evidently wanted the same thing.

She racked her brain for details of their last meeting and grimaced. “Shit. I really didn’t give you my number.” She searched his face. “Is that why you came here tonight?”

“A week is a long time to make a demon wait for a third kiss.”

Suzie blinked. Their first kiss had happened in her apartment, in front of Zach’s entire Argonaut team. Her cheeks warmed at the memory. Her belly clenched in the next instant. There was no mistaking what she was reading in Zach’s eyes.

He’d come here with more than just a kiss in mind.

“Looks like my honey pot won’t dry up after all,” she mumbled under her breath.

“What?”

“Nothing.” Suzie chewed her lip out of habit and winced when she reopened her wound. “Dammit. How are we supposed to kiss now?”

Zach chuckled and continued icing her flesh. “There are plenty other places I could kiss you.”

Suzie sucked in air as a slew of torrid images flashed before her eyes. He grinned like he’d read her mind. Her pulse quickened.

“You better deliver on that promise tonight,” she said hoarsely.

The demon grew still at her words. His smile faded. Something else replaced the amusement in his gaze. Something that made Suzie’s heart pound in anticipation and her sex throb with a surge of heat and wetness. Her breath hitched a little when he leaned in.

“Is that an invitation?”

His husky words washed across her lips, his eyes so close she could count every gray speck in his blue irises. Redness flared in his pupils. The faint smell of sulfur teased her nostrils along with the scent of his arousal.

The little control Suzie possessed snapped with a sound she swore she heard.

She grabbed Zach’s face and kissed him.

He froze for a heartbeat before dropping the ice pack and raising his hands to sink his fingers in her hair. He angled her head and swept his tongue past her teeth, his lashes lowering over a gaze that simmered crimson with desire. Suzie groaned and closed her eyes when she tasted a sliver of her own blood on his tongue. Then he wrapped his thick, hot flesh around hers and all her thoughts scattered to the winds.

Her nipples hardened and her pussy ached as they kissed with barely controlled hunger. Suzie gasped when Zach grabbed her waist, lifted her onto the edge of the table, and filled the cradle of her thighs with his hips. She hooked her arms around his neck and plastered her body against him, her mouth as demanding as his. He groaned when the weight of her full breasts pressed into his chest. A shudder shook her as the solid ridge of his erection nudged her crotch.

Suzie’s heart thundered like a freight train when the demon tugged her T-shirt out of her denim shorts, his movements as frenzied as the hot gaze he raked her with, his tongue lashing hers with strong, lustful strokes. Her breath froze when he danced his hands up her rib cage. He skimmed the satin covering her mounds and gently stroked his thumbs across her nipples.

Suzie arched and cried out, heat stabbing her core from his sensual touch. Zach swallowed the sound greedily and repeated the motion again and again before pinching her hardened nubs and tugging. She hissed at the pleasure pain, her sex growing slick with arousal.

He lowered his head to her throat and inhaled deeply. “Fuck, you smell divine.” He shivered. “I can’t wait to taste your pussy.”

The fire in his pupils drew a needy moan from her lips and had her knees clenching tightly around his thighs.

“Soon,” he growled against her mouth. He rocked his hips, grinding his cock into her crotch. “Soon, I’m going to be buried so deep inside you you won’t know where I begin and you end.”

Suzie dropped a hand between them and palmed his meaty rod. “You promise?!” she gasped, dizzy at the feel of him.

Zach cursed. “Don’t worry. I’m going to give you all of me.”

Suzie’s heart fluttered at his ardent vow. She tugged his lower lip between her teeth and gave him a playful bite. “I can’t wait.”

Zach shuddered. “Let’s head over to your place.”

Suzie giggled when he lifted her off the table, grabbed her waist, and walked her to the side exit, his touch hot and urgent. They made for the private entrance to her second-floor apartment, their hands all over one another, their lips meeting in torrid kisses as they tumbled through her front door.

Choked off laughter left Suzie when Zach lifted her over his shoulder in a fireman hold and practically ran up the stairs. He crossed the open plan living area briskly, climbed the steps to the mezzanine level and her bedroom, and put her down, his fingers making the most of her flesh as he slid her along his body.

“Shower,” Suzie murmured, glancing at the door to her en-suite. “I need to wash those men’s touch off me.”

Zach hooked his fingers in the waistband of her shorts and tugged her close. “I’ll help.” He walked her backward into the bathroom, mouth busy kissing her and hands expertly stripping her T-shirt up and over her head. He attacked his own next.

Suzie gulped at the hard planes and ridges of his muscular torso, his sculptured six-pack, and the sharply defined V highlighting the treasure trail dipping past the top of his jeans.

He flashed her a sexy smirk, balled his T-shirt, and dropped it on the floor. “Like what you see?”

“Uh-huh,” she managed in a strangled voice.

“Good.” His tone turned husky and his gaze smoldering. “Cause I like what I see too.” He hooked a finger under the shoulder strap of her bra, slipped it down her arm, and freed her left breast.

Suzie gasped when he palmed her hot flesh and carefully rubbed a thumb across the dusky nipple.

“Pink,” Zach breathed. He stared at the hard nub as if it were a treasure. “I knew they’d be pink.” He unhooked her bra, dropped it on the floor, and weighed her breasts reverently in his hands before lowering his head and sucking her left nipple into his mouth, his fingers teasing and squeezing her other mound and its proud crest.

Suzie clutched his shoulders and moaned, the pleasure storming through her rendering her dizzy. Every lash of Zach’s tongue against her nipple made her sex pulse and drew a shaky sound from her throat, so much so she feared she would come just from having him suck her breast.

He lowered his hands to her shorts, popped the top button, and pulled the zipper down. Suzie shivered as he worked the denim and her panties over her ass and down her hips. He let go of her breast, peeled her clothes off her legs, and stepped back, his chest heaving with his ragged breathing.

His pupils flared scarlet as he took in her naked form, his heated gaze raking every inch of her flushed flesh.

“You’re beautiful.” Zach danced a finger down her throat and breast.

Suzie panted and trembled as he grazed her quivering belly. He stopped just shy of the ash blond curls covering her sex and flashed her a wicked smile.

“Tease,” she whispered.

He chuckled and unbuckled his belt.

Suzie stared, her heart beating so fast she thought she would faint. The sound of the shower filled the bathroom when he reached behind her and turned it on, his chest skimming her torso with tantalizing heat. He started lowering his zipper, stopped, and gave her a grin that should have been illegal in every state.

Suzie fisted her hands. “I swear to God, if you don’t pull that zipper down right now and show me your dick, I’m not letting you anywhere near me!”

Zach laughed at her growl. Then he did exactly what she wanted.

Suzie pressed her thighs together and tried not to squirm when he freed his impressive erection, her pussy so sopping wet it felt like she’d come already.

Oh sweet Jesus!

The demon was bigger and harder than she’d imagined he would be, the skin over his shaft flushed and silky smooth except for the sculptured ridges of his veins. His cock visibly throbbed at her hungry stare. She licked her lips.

She wanted him inside her so bad she was willing to get down on her knees and beg him to take her there and then.

Zach backed her under the hot spray, his gaze smoldering as if he’d read her thoughts. He pinned her against the tiled wall and crushed his mouth over hers. Suzie’s lips parted eagerly under his tongue, the slight throbbing from her split flesh all but forgotten.

He explored her mouth for a long, torrid moment, his chest hard against her tingling nipples, his erection probing her belly with an insistent pressure even as he pressed a thick thigh between her legs.

Suzie moaned and wrenched her lips from his. “So, I always wanted to know something!” she gasped.

He groaned and licked the corner of her mouth. “Really, questions? Now ?”

Suzie tugged his hair.

Zach sighed and drew back slightly. “This better not be a quiz on astrophysics.”

Suzie chewed her lip and hesitated for a moment.