Page 18 of Hunter

“Figured. Send Deviant the app login. He’ll start pulling footage.”

Deviant, besides being an enforcer, was a fucking tech genius. If there was something on the video, he’d find it.

“Will do. Sadie bagged the note. I’ll drop it at Iron Shield so Midnight can run the paper for prints.”

“Good girl,” Fox muttered, impressed.

I growled, and he chuckled. “Now who’s whipped?”

Muttering an expletive, I hung up.

Turning back to Sadie, I locked eyes with her. “Gonna figure this out.”

Marcy cleared her throat and smiled. “Well, I’ll lock up and get out of your hair. You’ll take care of Sadie, yeah?”

“Damn straight,” I said, winking at my girl. The heat in my eyes hinted at the double meaning, and I smirked when her cheeks turned rosy.

“See you tomorrow,” Marcy called as she disappeared back inside, giggling.

“Thank you,” Sadie murmured softly. “We appreciate your help.”

“Don’t have to thank me, sunshine. I take care of what’s mine.”

She tilted her head slightly, biting her lip. Hope flickered across her face, soft and unsure. “But…I’m not yours.”

“Wrong,” I said, my voice firm and final. “You’ve been mine since the moment I laid eyes on you.”

“Really?” she breathed, cheeks flushing.

I nodded as the color crawled down her throat and disappeared into her shirt. I couldn’t help but wonder how far it went. Would her skin turn that same pink when I made her come? When I left my handprint on her ass?

I clenched my jaw, forcing the images out of my head before I exploded in my jeans like a horny teenager.

“Yours to…protect?” Sadie asked, her voice tentative, peering up through her dark lashes again.

I reached out and pressed a hand gently to her stomach, guiding her back until she hit the brick wall beside the bakery window. Dropping my head, I leaned in until my lips brushed the shell of her ear.

“Mine to protect. Mine to touch. Mine to fuck,” I murmured, letting my nose glide along her jaw until our lips were just a breath apart. “All of you, sunshine.Mine.”

Then I crushed my mouth to hers.

A deep growl rumbled from my chest as my hands settled at her waist, holding her still while I devoured her. She tasted even better than she smelled, and when I ran my tongue along the seam of her lips, she parted for me without hesitation.

“That’s it, sunshine,” I whispered. “Open for me.”

I kissed her deeper, sliding my hands around to cup her ass. She was perfect. Curvy, soft, and made for me.

My hips pressed into her, my cock straining against my jeans, but when she let out a low, breathy moan, I froze.

That sound was for me.Only me. If anyone else heard it, I’d lose my shit and kill the motherfucker.

“Wesley?” she whispered, dazed and panting. But when our eyes met, there was a flicker of confusion…and wariness.

“You have no idea how much I want you, sunshine,” I rasped, brushing my thumb across her lower lip. “But not here. Anyone hears your pretty little moans, I’ll lose my fucking mind.”

“Oh,” she breathed, then smiled, flushed and pleased.

I pulled back enough to cool down but kept hold of her hand. “Be ready, sunshine. Eventually, we’re gonna finish what we started. And I’m not stopping until you’re begging me to.”

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