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I surged forward, kissing him.
His lips parted in surprise, and I swept my tongue in as I pulled him closer. The kiss was desperate and needy, but that kind of exposure I could handle.
I wanted Dalton. So, I’d let myself have him just one more time.
I reached for his belt buckle, and he caught my wrist, pulling back.
“Not like last time,” he said.
“You think you can top me, Deputy?” I teased. “You’re welcome to try.”
I leaned in to kiss him again, but he fisted his hand in my hair, tugging my head back. Damn. Now Iwantedhim to top me.
“You can’t use sex to hide from me,” Dalton said. “Not this time.”
My pulse spiked. “I’m not.”
His eyes bored into me. “You are, but we’re done with that.”
He kissed me so softly I wanted to cry all over again. A voice in my brain was screaming to run now. That I couldn’t let him in. Couldn’t trust he wouldn’t leave me again.
But I needed this. Needed him.
If only for right now. I could pretend, couldn’t I? Let myself feel something just this once?
I was too tired, too emotionally drained to fight it.
“Okay,” I whispered. “Just please, Dalton, don’t be gentle with me. I can’t handle that right now.”
His lips curved into a sinful smile. He gave my hair a painful tug. “Then I’ll fuck you hard. Whatever you need, Axel. I’ll give it to you.”
This time, when my pulse spiked, it was from lust. My cock pressed against my zipper painfully, and my nipples tightened to aching peaks.
The dark promise in Dalton’s voice was everything I needed to hear just then.
“Fuck, yes,” I rasped. “Take me to bed.”
CHAPTER 21
Dalton
Axel fellinto my arms like he was meant to be there, and damn, maybe he reallywas.
I no longer cared if he was the right man at the right time because he was the perfect man any-damn-time. Hearing him call himself wrong turned my heart inside out. I wanted to wrap him up and protect him from the world that hurt him so badly.
I settled for kissing him until we both gasped for breath.
Banshee and Taz danced around us, jumping against our legs, until we broke the kiss with a laugh.
“Let’s put them outside, or we’ll have an audience,” Axel murmured.
“Didn’t seem to bother you at Glitter Balls.”
He smirked. “I like taking risks.” He fingered the badge clipped to my shirt. “Fucking a lawman…that’s a new one. Delicious, though.”
His words reminded me I was on my lunch break. I checked the time. Forty minutes left. Time enough unless an urgent callcame in. I wouldn’t be eating lunch today, but that was okay. I was starving for something else.
Axel herded his critters out the door and shut it. I stepped up behind him, caging him in against the door. I swept his long hair to one side and nosed at the nape of his neck.
