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As he turned and walked away, I watched the way those jeans hugged his tight ass. He caught me when he turned and winked, but he didn’t wait for a reaction before swaggering off down the street.
Chapter Thirty-Six: Celestial Chains
Maverick
I’d helped her findthat abusive asshole and kill him, then got her out of Devil’s Delirium, and she’d been blown away by my tongue and cock, so why was she so twitchy around me? Either she was a hunter, or she just needed more time to loosen up. Was she playing hard to get or a great actress?
I imagined nabbing her off the street, phasing her home and tying her to my bed. Then I’d remind her how I could make her body sing for me. My dick got hard just thinking about it.
She’d probably like that, too. She seemed to be turned on by that kind of play, going by our tryst inside the mansion. She’d probably be putty in my hands and then thank me.
“What the actual fuck is wrong with me?” I muttered. I wouldn’t last a week like this. I wanted to hold her down and fuck every oneof her glorious holes until we both passed out, and I wanted it right now. Maybe we’d last the whole week, and then I could take her out to dinner like a gentleman. I groaned at my idea of the perfect date.
Then again, the guys and I had some shit to take care of, too. I couldn’t give up the whole week to rutting that brilliant monster. Not yet. But soon. Soon, I would.
I phased back to the house where Stone and Lux were lounging on the back porch, beers in hand.
“Where have you been, man?” asked Stone.
“I had something to deal with.”
“You bed your cock into that witch yet?”
“Keep your ugly mouth shut about that witch, or it’ll be too swollen and bloody to say it again.”
I ignored their fits of raucous laughter as I sat down next to them and stared out at the forest.
“I’ve never seen you so possessive, Mav. What’s up with this chick?”
My shoulders tensed up, and my jaw gnashed together. I didn’t want to tell them anything about her. “Nothing.” They wouldn’t understand.
“She say no?”
I sighed, but grumpy Maverick would have made them suspicious, so I had to shake it off and replace my scowl with a smirk. “Are you kidding? She begged me to take her in the middle of the street. But she’s busy with work, so I told her I’ll see her next week when we can do it right.” I pointed at him and stood up, walking back inside to get my own beer. “Expect radio silence next week.”
“Good. We should be laying low anyway.”
Twisting the cap off and tossing it, I came back out to the porch. I took my time, wandering back, but with a swig of my beer, I leaned on the banister in front of them. “Any news yet?”
“They’ve got a lot of new techniques in development.”
I sighed, throwing my head back. “It never gets boring, and yet I’m bored. When the fuck are they going to give up on us?”
“Sounds like never. It’s been at least a hundred years since the last time they were sniffing around close enough to catch wind of us. But we should expect the Spanish Inquisition.”
“Yeah, it’s like I blinked, and here we are again. Any word on timelines?”
“No. Mac says they were sniffing around, but just reconnaissance. He said they probably don’t know where we arehere. But Maverick, you spend a lot of time in that city.” He glowered at me pointedly, but I just shook my head. I liked it there. Something felt right. His jaw tightened. “You need to stay out until we clear this up.”
My stomach sank like a titanium ring in the sea. I couldn’t ghost Tess. I was so close to getting her into my bed. “Nah. Fuck that.”
He raised an eyebrow. “She’s that important?”
My heart pounded in rage. The seraphim leadership wasn’t happy with oppressing their own people in their own land. They had to go after everyone who wanted out and bring us all back to keep us miserable no matter what. We were all slaves to seraphim society. “No, but the god damned hunters can kiss my ass. They’re not worth shit. The whole damn realm can kiss my ass. I’m sick of this bullshit.”
Lux cut in. “You know we agree. But we don’t want to find ourselves dragged back home either.”
He made more sense than I knew what to do with because I wasn’t staying out of Tess’s city. I’d blow up Hell itself if they tried to take me before the week was up. For some elusive reason I couldn’t explain, walking around Crimson City calmed me. “I fucking know it. I’ll deal with it.”
