“I’ll give Devora a holler.” Max adjusted his John Deere cap. “You get in contact with your team. Tomorrow night plans need to be made to get the sonofabitch.”
“Right.” Alec nodded. “We’re going to get him. This makes it all the more urgent on top of already being our number one priority.”
Max turned to Loni and gave her an assessing look. “A right pleasure to meet you, Loni.” He shook her hand. “Heard you had an interesting experience when Alec and Petra were taking down the humans.”
“I guess you could call it that.” Loni pushed strands of hair over her ear. “An interesting experience.”
Max adjusted his cap as he looked at Alec. “I’ll be seeing y’all at the bar.”
“You bet.” Alec gave a nod and he and Loni watched as Max left and shut the door firmly behind him.
“Sounds like you got quite the break tonight.” Loni offered Alec a smile as she walked close to him.
“Sure did.” He looped his arm around her shoulders. “Time to head home. We’ll have time enough to deal with this later.”
Chapter 11
When Alec let them into his house there was an awkwardness between them. Loni bit the inside of her lip as they walked from the front door to the stairs leading up to the next level. Before they’d been interrupted, they’d been about to go places Loni hadn’t expected but now wanted.
But now that they’d had a chance to cool off, it felt different. There was still a strong sexual tension between the two of them, but it seemed like Alec was somehow distancing himself.
When they reached the bottom steps, he paused and she could tell he had something he wanted to tell her.
She studied him. “What is it?”
He dragged his hand down his face. “Earlier—I think we almost made a mistake.”
“Why?” She wasn’t going to let him put her off like that. She knew he wanted her as much as she wanted him.
His throat worked as he swallowed. “You’re human and I’m not.”
She frowned. “So?”
With a sigh he said, “It just wouldn’t work.”
“That’s not the only reason.” By the almost imperceptible flinch in his eyes she knew that was true.
“You’re right.” He looked down at his boots then back at her again. “I don’t want to start something we’re not going to finish.”
She put one hand on her hip as she gestured with her other. “We’re adults here, Alec.”
“I know,” he said quietly. “But we both know nothing can come of this.”
“Because I’m human or because you haven’t gotten over what Maria did to you and you’re afraid I might do the same?”
“Both.”
“At least you’re honest.” Heat flushed through her and she turned away. She paused long enough to look over her shoulder to tell him, “Good night,” before she headed up the stairs.
She felt his gaze on her as she left but she didn’t look back. It was stupid to even start to feel like some kind of relationship could develop between them. She’d been feeling so much attraction to him. Reading about him had given her a deeper sense of who he was as a man and the attraction she felt toward him was stronger than she would have expected.
It was strange how she had now accepted this new reality and how she even accepted the magic going on around her—and the magic she had experienced for herself.
This was all too real now not to believe that it was truly happening. She didn’t feel like she was dreaming anymore.
She pushed open the door to the guestroom and started to pass the vanity dresser but caught her reflection in the mirror. Wearing black leather, she looked like the Enforcers. Not really just the leather, but something about the look in her eyes and her appearance made her feel like she could be one of them.
As she watched herself in the mirror, she pulled the ponytail holder off, letting her hair fall around her bare shoulders and thought about the night. She had told Selena she had wanted adventure and adventure was what she was getting. She had shared with Selena that her ideal man was one who had integrity and heart. A man who could be trusted. Ironic that Alec couldn’t bring himself to trust her.
A rap on the doorframe brought her attention around to see Alec standing in the doorway. He looked so good, still wearing black leather and boots, but his weapons belt was gone.
“Can I come in?” he asked.
She nodded. “Yeah.”
He moved toward her and she met him halfway. Her heart beat a little faster at the way he was looking at her and she almost took a step back from the strength of passion and desire in his gaze. It was almost frightening.
Yet at the same time it drew her, it made her want to throw herself into his arms. She held herself back, needing to let him make the first move. He had rejected her earlier. She wasn’t going to be rejected again.
“You’re human, Loni.” He took a step closer so that they were mere fractions apart. He raised his hand and stroked his knuckles along her cheek. “I’ve never been with a human. It’s taboo.”
She searched his gaze. “Why is it taboo?”
“That’s what we’re taught from the time we’re young,” he said. “But the emotions you stir up in me. It’s like…”
“Magic,” she whispered.
“Something like that.” He looked so serious she was almost afraid to breathe, as if that might break the spell they were under.
The moment he kissed her she felt like stars were exploding in her mind. The sensations she’d felt when he’d kissed her earlier seemed more intense, wilder. She didn’t hold back as she returned his kiss. A soft humming sound rose up inside of her until her whole body seemed to thrum with it.
Again it felt like colored lights floated in and out of her body. She could almost see them behind her closed eyes. Then he drew away and she opened her eyes and gasped. Colored lights floated all around them and magic sparkled along their bare arms.
Her lips parted, she met his gaze and saw the lights reflected in his eyes. “What’s happening?”
He shook his head. “It has to be you. This has never happened to me before.”
“Me?” She blinked at him then smiled. “No. I think it’s us.”
He gave her a soft, sexy smile. “All I know is that you are amazing.”
Another kiss had her mind spinning. The sparks along their bare arms tingled and she felt the sensation all the way to her nipples.
They moved closer together as they kissed, his body so tight to hers that it felt as if they might fuse together. She loved the sensation of his leather clothing against hers. It had an erotic feel to it. Her leather top with its thin shoulder straps and skin-tight bodice rubbed against her nipples, making them even more sensitized, as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
The kiss was so long that she felt lightheaded when he drew away. She looked up at him, her lips parted, her heart throbbing in a rapid beat, lights still sparking around them.
“I want you, Loni.” His brown eyes were the color of melted chocolate and they captured her. She saw the passion in them, the desire, the need.
In answer she reached up and kissed him again.
His hands explored her curves, his palms running over the leather, down her waist to her hips. Her skin tingled everywhere he touched. He slid his fingers to her ass and squeezed as he pulled her so tight to him that his erection pressed hard into her belly.
Butterflies rippled through her abdomen as she smiled up at him. He kissed her smile then nipped at her lower lip causing her to moan softly. He ran his hand from her hip back up to her breast. She gasped as he cupped her breast and pinched her nipple through the soft leather.
She arched her back, wanting more than just his touch. He reached behind her and unzipped the leather top, the straps falling off her shoulders and down her arms as he removed it.
A shiver trailed her spine as her breasts were bared and he tossed the leather garment aside. His gaze fixed on her breasts and he cup
ped them in his hands as if weighing them before bringing his head down and slipping her nipple into his warm mouth and sucking gently, then with more pressure.
It felt so incredible, the magic sizzling between them making her feel even crazier with need. The magic continued to tingle over her skin, making her feel more alive and feel more pleasure than she had ever felt before and she never wanted it to end.
She grasped the hem of his sleeveless leather shirt and he helped her pull it over his head and then they were bare chest to bare chest. She put her hands on his pecs and felt the hardness and his strength as his muscles rippled beneath her palms. They kissed again, hard, almost furious in its intensity. Even the touch of their lips was magic.
He guided her to the edge of the bed and had her sit on it as he removed first one of her boots then the next before slipping off her socks. She loved of the feel of being bared to him from the waist up and loved how he kept looking at her, admiration in his gaze. He toed off each of his own boots and stripped off his socks before bringing her to her feet and taking her in his arms again.
His hands went for the button and zipper on her leather pants and in moments he was pushing them down so that they dropped to her feet, leaving her in just her supple black leather panties that were lined with silk. He tugged them down too, and then she stepped out of her clothing and kicked them aside.
He unbuttoned his own leather pants and then they landed at his feet and he ditched them. He didn’t wear any underwear. His cock jutted out, thick, long, and amazing. She wanted to touch him, taste him, feel him in her mouth. Before he had a chance to do anything else, she was on her knees, his cock brushing her lips.
Alec met Loni’s gaze as she wrapped her hand around his erection and brushed her lips over the head. The fact that it was taboo to be with a human didn’t matter anymore. Nothing mattered but Loni. He had tried to resist but something about her had pulled him to her room. He hadn’t been able to stop himself no matter how hard he had tried.
He had never experienced anything like what was happening with her now. She was a temptress, maybe even a sorceress, with magic that he could never duplicate.
Yet she was human.
His gut tightened as more magic tingled around his erection, wherever her lips touched. He fisted his hands at his sides to keep from thrusting his cock into her mouth and forcing her to take him deep, to the back of her throat now.
Her eyes remained focused on his as she swirled her tongue around the head of his cock and squeezed his balls at the same time, the pressure increasing until it was almost too much to take. Yet the pain had a kind of pleasure to it. He groaned, his whole body tense and waiting for her to go down on him.
She gave a sexy smile around the head of his cock and he gritted his teeth right before she slid him through her parted lips. A growl rose up in him as he felt her hot, wet mouth over his cock and felt the tingle of magic spreading even stronger throughout his body. Slowly she started moving her mouth up and down his length.
He slipped his fingers into her hair and then she gasped as he clenched it tightly in his grip. He slowly started thrusting his hips as he held her in place, controlling her as she sucked his cock. She took him willingly, moaning with clear excitement at giving him pleasure.
Magic like he’d never known before sizzled along his skin. Her hair glittered in the glow from the lights floating around them. Exactly what kind of magic did she have? Whatever it was, it was about to blow his mind.
Sensation gathered in his groin, an incredible feeling that grew and grew in intensity and he gritted his teeth to hold back from climaxing. When he didn’t think he could handle anymore, he grasped her by her hair and pulled her head back so that he could slip his cock from her mouth.
He caught her by her upper arms and drew her to stand and then he kissed her again. Her mouth was soft, her lips moist. She tasted of feminine heat and her scent was like wildflowers and rain.
“You smell so good.” He nipped at her earlobe. “Feel so good.”
She caught her breath as he lowered her to the soft rug at the foot of the bed. When she was all the way down, he propped himself above her and gently brushed hair from her face and looked into her blue eyes. “You are so beautiful.”
Her smile was filled with so much need and desire, the same desire that he felt blazing inside of him like a firestorm. He pressed his lips to hers and they entwined their naked bodies on the rug. She was soft and warm and he couldn’t wait to taste her. Couldn’t wait to be inside of her.
Nothing mattered but her.
Loni had never felt like she would climax just from a kiss, but with the crazy sparks of magic between them she was so close to coming with the lightest of touches.
Alec moved lower and teased her nipple with his tongue and magic sparkled where he had licked her. He drew her nipple into his mouth and sucked, causing her to arch her back as she begged for more. He sucked her other nipple and there was more golden magic dancing on her skin wherever he touched. She slipped her hands into his hair, grasping the soft strands in her fingers. His hands were callused and she loved the contrast of their roughness against her soft skin and the feel of the magic as his hands made trails through it.
He moved lower, his fingers moving over her chest to her abdomen and down to the soft hair between her thighs. Sparks stirred and glittered along the path he made. She was amazed at the beauty of the lights and the tingling sensations running over her skin. Where had it come from? It gave her an unbelievably delicious feeling inside and out.
His lips felt firm as he kissed her abdomen and she shivered as he eased her thighs apart and he pressed his lips to the inside of her thigh, skimming along the sensitive flesh to her other thigh.
Sparks tingled and flashed as he kissed the lips of her sex and her legs trembled as she waited for him. His fingers parted her folds and then his tongue was on her.
Sounds of pleasure escaped her as he licked and sucked her clit, and his tongue made trails up and down her folds. She held her breath, feeling an orgasm coming on but not wanting to climax too soon. He slipped two fingers into her core and began moving them in and out faster and faster, his knuckles hitting her folds as he continued to lick and suck her.
The colored lights of magic flashed brighter in her mind as she climbed higher and higher to the peak. He blew softly against her clit and everything within and out seemed to explode with pleasure as she climaxed.
Unable to hold anything back, she cried out and squeezed his head between her thighs as he continued licking and drawing out her pleasure. When the last shudder from her orgasm passed, he moved up her body and she felt his weight as he pressed himself to her. His full weight was not on her but she loved the feel of his body so snug to hers.
When he rose and stood, she watched him go to his leather pants and he pulled a foil packet out of the pocket. He returned and watched her as he removed the condom and rolled it down his cock.
He knelt between her thighs and positioned his cock at the entrance to her core. Their gazes locked and held as he looked down at her. His jaw tightened and he thrust his cock inside.
She cried out again at the sudden fullness and depth that he reached inside her. It felt like the magic was concentrated now between her thighs and in her womb. He looked down to see his cock moving in and out of her. She stared, too, and somehow watching him take her made it even more thrilling.
Golden sparks glittered between their bodies, dancing on her belly and teasing her nipples. He looked up and she met his gaze again. He fucked her harder and harder and her breathing became rough and perspiration mingled on their skin. She raised her hips up to meet him as he slammed into her and it felt like she could feel him all the way to her belly.
He was an amazing man in so many ways and even as she climbed toward her climax she knew she was falling for him and she was falling for him hard.
Her orgasm ripped through her and she felt lightheaded as her body thrummed and he continued to take her.
She vibrated and trembled and the magic warmed her skin.
He gritted his teeth and then growled as he came, almost like the tiger he was when in that animal form. The sound sent pinging sensations throughout, causing her orgasm to carry on and on.
Her core spasmed around his cock as it throbbed inside her. A few more strokes and he stopped and held himself above her. As their gazes met, a droplet of sweat rolled down the side of his face and landed on her chest.
Magic continued to sizzle between them, over every part of her body. It gradually vanished as their orgasms faded away.
His expression was serious as he held her and rolled her onto her side on the rug so that they were facing each other. He kissed her then brought her close so that her head was resting under his chin. He pushed strands of hair from her face. Her body relaxed and her eyelids fluttered closed and she drifted off to sleep.
Chapter 12
William struggled to control himself as a hew vision came to him hard and fast, and he ground his teeth as his muscles shook with the effort. The orange three-dimensional images flared to life in front of him.
He watched as Alec Page and the Enforcer called Petra battled three of William’s human subjects. The human, Loni, was there as well but for some odd reason her form was fuzzy and he barely saw her at all.
However, Page and Petra’s battles with the humans on Propara were only too clear. William had trained the three humans himself, but they were no match for the Enforcers. He wasn’t really surprised. It had been meant as a diversion, a way to separate the Enforcers to make them more vulnerable.
The vision of the battles faded and William found himself looking at a scene in what he knew was the task force’s headquarters.
Manny Green, one of his newest humans, was in a room with Alec Page and Manny began to talk. He somehow broke free of the hold William had over all of his human subjects. William tried to grab onto the string of control that should have existed between him and Manny, but failed.
In the vision, Manny told Page everything he knew about Propara. William’s anger grew as the human continued. Manny would die.
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