Steal the Day (14 page)

“Come here, lover.” He held a hand out, guiding me down to sit on his lap.

There was only a single lamp lighting the room. Soft light made him look younger, more vulnerable than usual. I leaned forward, kissing his nose and cheeks and his furrowed brow. I wanted to kiss away his troubles.

His hands brushed across my breasts before unhooking the clasps of my bra and tossing it away. I leaned back, giving him the access I knew he wanted, and he fastened that sensual mouth on my nipple, tugging and sucking it with affection. I could feel the hard length of his cock pressing against me.

I wrapped my arms around him, adoring the heat of his skin. While his tongue played on my breasts, I let myself be surrounded by him. His scent, his warmth, the slide of his skin against mine. The world seemed to disappear when I was with Dev.

And I’d lied to Felicity. He meant more to me than a good time.

My fingers found the bottom of his shirt, and I pulled it overhead, exposing the beauty of his chest. He was built on lean lines, every muscle sculpted and perfect. His mouth found mine again, tongues playing as his fingers delved past the waist of my panties. I was already wet and ready. He really only had to look at me to get my motor running. His fingers slid over my clit, every nerve I had lighting up.

“I need you,” he whispered against my skin. “I need you so fucking much.”

It hadn’t been so long ago I had asked something very similar of him, and he had not disappointed me. I wouldn’t let him go through this, whatever this was, alone. “You have me. I’m here.”

His eyes hardened, rough desire taking over. “Show me. Show me how much you want me.” His hand tangled in my hair, pulling on it with a gentle bite. “I want you to suck me, Zoey. I want you on your knees, taking me in your mouth.”

It wasn’t a request he made often. He tended to please me, taking his own satisfaction only after I’d come several times. Oh, he certainly was in charge when we were in bed together, but he tended to prefer to be the one tasting.

I slid off his lap, more than willing to do what he was asking of me. Desire thrummed through my system as I unbuttoned his slacks.

“Slow, Zoey.” He was staring down at me, completely unmoving except for his hand in my hair. “Take your time.”

He might think he was in control, but I wanted this. I’d wanted it for a very long time. Sometimes I felt useless in bed. Oh, there was always pleasure there, but I wanted to please him, too. I wanted to mean so much more to him and I couldn’t when he always gave and never took.

I let my palm run over the soft material of his boxers, feeling the hard erection under there. Dev’s cock was already poking its way out of the top, touching his navel. Big and thick, the head of his cock was bulbous and already creamy with the evidence of his arousal.

The masculine scent of his desire wafted over me. Dev smelled like the soap he’d used and sandalwood and the musky smell of his sexual arousal. His deep groan reverberated across his skin as I swiped at the head of his cock, gathering the little bead of cream I found there. The salty taste of Dev spread across my tongue and I sucked, trying to draw more from him.

“That’s it.” His hand tightened in my hair, the sensation lighting up my scalp and rushing across my skin. “More, Zoey. Take more of me. Take all of me.”

I reached up and drew the full length of him out of his boxers. I couldn’t hold him in one hand. I needed two. Green Men didn’t do small cocks. He pulsed against my palm and I loved the silky feel of him. My entire body was primed to please him, wanting nothing more than to have my tongue coated with him as I took all his troubles away.

Something had happened to him in the past, something terrible. He wouldn’t talk to me about it so this was the only way I had to help him through. I knew how it felt to sit up at night and go over and over one terrible moment. I would have given a lot to have someone with me, making me forget. I could be that for Dev. I could be essential to him.

Sex is important. It binds us to other human beings. I know I’m naïve in thinking that way. There are many people who can just lose themselves to pleasure, but I’m not one of them. I learned that my heart and all those girl parts I had were deeply connected. I couldn’t seek pleasure without also getting my heart engaged and Dev was making my every emotion spark even as I drew his cock into my mouth.

“Yes. That’s what I need, sweetheart.”

It didn’t matter how he saw me in that moment. He could have seen me as nothing more than a cheap lay. I knew the truth. He needed me. I was the only one who could take him to a place where he wasn’t worried, wasn’t back in that place where Felicity’s magic had taken him.

I closed my mouth over the head of his cock and drew him in. My hair spread out over his thighs and I drew hard on his dick, sucking as I lowered my mouth on him. His heavy balls felt good against my palm. I rolled them up, loving the weight.

It took forever to work my way down most of him. I couldn’t take his full length. My mouth wasn’t big enough. I took as much as I could and sucked hard, letting my tongue run around his width. Silky skin played against mine, Dev’s cock thickening further even as I drew on him.

He pushed me down gently, forcing me to take another inch. His cock hit the back of my throat and I forced myself to breathe deep.

“Do you know how fucking good you feel?” Dev’s voice was hoarse, sexy and low. “Do you know how much I need you?”

It was exactly the right thing to say to keep me going. I drew back almost to his cock head, tonguing around the ridge it formed.

“Zoey?”

I let my eyes drift up and he was staring down at me, both his hands in my hair now. I didn’t say a thing, didn’t pull my mouth off him. I wouldn’t let up, simply let him know that I was listening.

“I’ll take care of you. For as long as you’ll let me, I’ll take care of you.”

I had zero intentions of him not taking care of me, but the specter of Daniel sat firmly between us. There was no doubt in my mind that was what he was talking about. Even as I worked on Dev’s cock, Daniel was there between us.

I was caught between my rage at my husband and a growing, deepening emotion that defined how I felt about Devinshea.

Desire swamped me, causing me to let go of my every inhibition. Nothing mattered except taking Dev to a place where no one but I could touch him.

My tongue ran up and down his dick. Over and over, I dragged my mouth up and down, working his flesh with my tongue and teeth and mouth. His cock filled my mouth to overflowing, invading me and overtaking me. I let my hand circle the part of his cock I didn’t have in my mouth, stroking him in time to each drag of my tongue.

His hips started to move, thrusting up to meet to my mouth as I drove his cock deep inside.

A low moan came out of his mouth and I felt the moment his balls drew up, hugging close to his body. “I’m going to come, sweetheart. If you don’t want a mouthful of me, you should lean back and let me finish this.”

Oh, but I’d been dying for a mouthful of him. I realized just how careful he’d been with me. He’d denied himself in order to please me. He’d focused on me and we’d missed out on so much because of it. I needed this as much as he did. I needed to know that I could transport him the way he could transport me. Dev could take me to another place when he made love to me. He could make all my troubles and worry drift away, take me to somewhere I didn’t have to worry about anything beyond the next dizzying peak, the orgasm that was rolling over me.

His hips rolled up, his dick filling every inch of my mouth and I heard him groan as come spurted over my tongue.

Salty sweetness overtook my senses, his orgasm making me shudder. I lapped up every ounce, swallowing him down. A deep sense of satisfaction floated through me because he was relaxed now, his muscles losing their tension.

I kept licking him, his hand softening in my hair until he was petting me.

And his cock was coming back to life.

When I looked up at him, the dark look in his eyes was gone, replaced by a smile that drew his gorgeous mouth up.

“You have the most amazing mouth, lover. But I think it’s time for a little payback. Come up here.” He pulled me up and into his lap.

This time when he kissed me it was a long, satisfying exploration. He was certain I would be what he needed me to be, and he was content to take his time.

* * * *

It was almost two in the morning when I finally slid out of bed. I hadn’t drifted to sleep the way I normally would have. Too many things were running through my mind. This night had been different. Sex with Dev was fun and playful, but this was a different Dev. He’d been demanding, and I felt, for the first time, he needed me for so much more than an orgasm. We’d made love, and it gave me so much to think about.

I thought Dev had finally fallen asleep, but he turned and propped his head on one hand. I was about to get dressed but sat back down on the bed.

“You can go, Zoey,” Dev said quietly. “I’ll be fine now.”

“I wish you would tell me what was riding you tonight.” I reached out to touch his chest, placing my hand right over his heart.

He smiled, a lascivious little grin, and his hand ran itself up my arm. “I don’t mind telling you what was riding me tonight. That would be you, and you rode me well, sweetheart.” I rolled my eyes and started to get up again but he pulled at my hand, his eyes sobering. “It happened a long time ago. I was just a kid. That fucking manipulative magic just brought back some bad memories. You drove them away with your amazing therapy.”

And that was all I was going to get. “Well, I’m glad I could be of service.”

He pulled me down and kissed me. “Thank you, my Zoey. I couldn’t have asked for more. Now, go and give Daniel hell like you want to.”

“I don’t have to go.” I didn’t want to leave him if he needed me, but Danny and I had a few things to iron out. I wanted to talk to him about the job, and I really wanted to kick his ass for letting me walk into that situation with Angelina and Justin unaware. He had to know there would be repercussions. If I was supposed to be queen to his king, I needed to start getting the debriefings.

Dev yawned and looked generally content. “If you stay, you’ll have to wait an entire day to yell at him. I don’t want to be the one who kept you waiting. Go, woman. I sleep better alone anyway. You snore.”

“I do not,” I protested, getting off the bed and finding my clothes.

“Do, too,” he insisted. “And Zoey, whatever this job is…”

“I know, I know, you want in.” Those would be the three words carved into his headstone one day. I was sure of it.

“That’s right. And you can be damn sure when you go to the Hell plane to rescue Sarah, that I want in on that, too.”

I stood staring at him. I’d been really careful to keep him entirely out of the loop on that one. I’d never mentioned it and been careful to never speak of it in the club.

Dev turned over with a satisfied smirk that had everything to do with one-upping me. “I know everything, Zoey. I’ll talk to you tomorrow. And don’t kill the vampire. We’re going to need him.”

* * * *

I shut the door to the limo and listened as it drove back off into the night. Of all the people my move had inconvenienced, I was certain Dev’s driver was the worst. The night was quiet, but the light was on in the living room. My heart clenched a little bit at the thought of Neil sitting up. I let myself in and, sure enough, there he was sitting on the couch. He was still in his slacks and polo, though they weren’t as crisp as they had been. He looked more nervous than sad.

When he glanced up at me, his eyes went wide, shock replacing that haunted look.

“Zoey.” He actually shrank back a bit. “You were supposed to stay with Dev.”

“I need to talk to Daniel.” At least he was speaking to me and not shutting me out with a flippant wave of his hand. “And I definitely need to talk to you. But before we get into that, I have to tell you something. I don’t want you to hear through the grapevine. I kind of shot your dad.”

Neil perked up at that. “Really? Is he dead?”

I shook my head. “No, but he probably wishes he was. I sort of shot him in a spot most guys don’t want to get shot in.”

Neil smiled wistfully. “Thereby fulfilling many a childhood fantasy. I wish I could have been there, Z.”

“Hey, it happened at Ether so it was more than likely caught on Dev’s security tapes. We can have a watching party.”

“Cool,” Neil agreed. “You didn’t happen to shoot my brother, too?” I responded in the negative. “Next time.”

At least he wasn’t distraught. I could move on to other painful conversations. “Now, where is Danny?”

Neil is possibly the worst liar on the planet. Most of the time he knew better than to lie and, when faced with a situation that required fabrication, merely kept his mouth shut and allowed those of us with skill to handle it. He was up shit creek when he was left to his own devices, as nothing that came out of his lying mouth sounded believable. He couldn’t just stick with a little lie. Once Neil started talking, everything snowballed. I watched as he tried really hard to come up with something, anything, that might make me believe.

“There was a Council thing, and he forgot that he was supposed to go,” he spat out finally.

The Council was in Paris. Danny had up and gone to Paris? I just stared at him knowing that the longer I kept him pinned with that look, the worse a hole he would dig. Neil never met a silence he liked. He just had to fill it with something.

“Marcus called and said he was late,” Neil continued, unable to stay silent while I stared. “And that there was a big vampire emergency and all the vampires had to go to this meeting because of the emergency. It was a very important meeting but Daniel finished what he was doing, ‘cause you know Daniel, he’s all ‘nobody tells me what to do’ and then he decided to go ahead and go anyway because…”

“It was a vampire emergency,” I finished, sarcasm dripping. I looked down at my still-lime green carpet. The boxes of flooring hadn’t been touched and his tools were right where he’d left them. “Neil, he didn’t even start the project. Where is he? Is he out finding more little wolves to feed to his vamps? Is he at least getting a finder’s fee?”