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  “Gonna invite me in?”

  She really didn’t want to. He looked too good standing there in an old pair of worn jeans, tight black T-shirt, and a wild look in his eye. But even as she debated whether to let him in or not, she was standing back and he walked in.

  She closed the door and he walked further into the living room.

  “I have some coffee made if you want,” she offered.

  He turned away from studying the living room and smiled. “That would be good.”

  She refilled her cup and made him a new one. He took it from her and sat at the table. He flipped through the files and looked up. “Late night reading?”

  She shrugged. “Hadn’t had lot of time to go through all of them.”

  He nodded and handed her the camera he still carried. Katy sat in the chair she’d been in earlier. She powered the camera on then flicked through the pictures. The pictures were of the library, the parking lot, the area that surrounded it, and finally a street.

  “That street is where we think he was parked. Someone could have seen him. Could have at least seen what car was there,” Cameron told her.

  Katy flipped through the pictures again. “This is good. Christi is even smaller than we are. There is a good chance someone did see the car.”

  “He made a mistake coming here. In the city he could get away without being seen. Here, someone will have noticed him at some time,” Cameron agreed.

  “I’m having my deputies check all the motels here and any surrounding areas. If he’s still here, he has to be staying somewhere. I also contacted a friend at the Border Patrol. If we can get the information about the car that will help,” Katy told him.

  “That’s good. I think the case is moving pretty good.”

  Katy agreed. But she still had what Allysa had seen heavy on her mind. “Why did he come here?”

  Cameron drained his coffee before he set the cup down. “I don’t know. I’ve racked my brain over that. We were close in Dallas. I know we were. But why did he come so far west? What are the chances he would come here?”

  That was what Katy was worried about. Because if for some reason he had come here because of her, Amanda Caldwell’s death was on her conscience.

  Was he from an old case? Had they come across him sometime when they were partners? She just didn’t know. She looked up and met his eyes.

  “How did you know about the library?” he asked.

  Katy blinked at him. “I told you—”

  “Why don’t you tell me the truth this time?” he interrupted.

  “What? I…”

  “You know something more.” Cameron narrowed his eyes. “You always knew more.”

  She met his look. “Just like you knew other…different things about the cases.”

  He grinned. He’d wondered if she ever noticed anything unusual about him. “I’m sure I don’t know what you mean,” he said instead.

  “Really?” she asked with the raise of an eyebrow. “How about that time you followed a guy for twelve blocks because he ‘smelt’ familiar? Then once we had him in custody, he confessed to robbing that bank.”

  “Just lucky I guess,” Cameron quipped. “How about that co-ed who said she was one of the woman raped by the serial rapist, and you figured out that she had seen her boyfriend with another woman and wanted his sympathy?”

  “We both knew she was lying,” she argued.

  “Yes, but you knew about the boyfriend.”

  “A woman thing,” she said, laughing.

  “Yeah, I’m sure,” Cameron said before he dropped his smile. “I think there’s more to you than you’re saying.”

  “Right back atcha,” Katy responded and finished her own coffee.

  “Okay then.” Cameron stood. Katy also got up and started walking towards the door.

  She only took about three steps before Cameron grasped her elbows and pulled her back against him.

  “Are we done talking shop then?” he whispered in her ear.

  Katy shivered. She could feel the heat from his body. It made her want to bury herself inside and forget. “I don’t think…”

  His lips brushed the sensitive skin below her ear. “Don’t think. Just feel.”

  His hands moved up and caressed her arms. “You used to be able to lose yourself with me. Do you remember?”

  She did. She had been able to let everything go when she was with him. Even the dreams had come less, although they hadn’t stopped.

  “Tell me you didn’t miss me…didn’t miss us,” he whispered.

  Katy arched into his touch when he wrapped his arms around her and cupped her breasts. She moaned as his fingers brushed over her nipples.

  “That’s what I thought.” He spun her around and closed his mouth over hers.

  Katy opened for him as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Cameron felt solid against her and it was all she could do to keep herself from climbing his body.

  The kiss deepened and she slid one hand into his hair and held him tightly against her. She couldn’t resist. Their bodies moved together until he pressed her against the table. He lifted her up and sat her on top.

  His mouth left hers and travelled down her throat. She whimpered in need and leant back. His fingers quickly worked the buttons of her uniform shirt open.

  Cool air met her flesh as he parted the front of her shirt. He bent his head and captured one silk covered nipple in his mouth. She bucked against him.

  “Cameron!” she panted. God, she wanted him. Wanted him inside her this time. Not the teasing, no taunting, just the two of them locked together.

  He released her and trailed kisses over her breast to her other nipple. He lavished that one with swipes of his tongue.

  “Oh…yes,” she encouraged.

  He hummed against her skin. Then before she knew what he intended, he grabbed both cups of her silk bra and ripped. He surprised a laugh out of her.

  “Want to feel your skin,” he told her.

  “Yes! Yes!” She clawed at his T-shirt until he pulled it over his head. He still had the best looking chest she had ever seen. Muscular, wide, hairless and so yummy. She wanted a taste of him. “Come here.”

  He grinned before he bent back down. “What do you want?”

  “You… I want you!”

  Cameron teased his lips over hers. “What do you want with me?”

  “I want to taste you,” she told him. “Please.”

  He kissed her again. Katy scraped her nails down his sides, causing him to hiss into her mouth. The kiss grew hotter until they had to break away to breathe.

  Cameron didn’t slow down though. He attacked her boots then her pants, removed her shirt and the remainder of her bra, until he had her naked. Then he covered the top of her body with his.

  Katy wrapped her legs around his waist. “Naked, get naked,” she panted.

  Both of their hands went to the button and zipper of his pants. They managed to release him from the confines of the jeans then he stepped away to shove them down his hips.

  Katy’s breath caught in her throat. His cock stood out hard and proud. He ran his hand over the tip, collecting the precum.

  “Come here,” he ordered.

  Katy scrambled off the table and dropped to her knees in front of him.

  Her heart was beating so fast. She wanted him like she had never wanted another man in her life. In the back of her mind, she knew she shouldn’t be doing this but she couldn’t stop herself. There had always been something wild about loving Cameron.

  She replaced his hand with her own. She pumped his cock a few times before she leant forward and took the tip into her mouth.

  He moaned and wrapped his fingers into her hair. “Suck me,” he demanded.

  Katy licked the tip of his shaft, ran her tongue under the sensitive head, before she took him deep.

  His heady taste assaulted her senses and she moaned as she started to bob her head.

  Chapter Seven

  Cameron groaned and ti
ghtened his hold on Katy. She knew how to go down on a man, that was for sure. She’d always told him she enjoyed doing it, and with her on her knees, he had no reason to doubt her.

  The hand that wasn’t pumping his prick was below fondling and rolling his balls. It felt so good. He moved his hips slowly, not wanting to choke her and at the same time trying to hold off his orgasm. Katy, however, had other plans. She moaned around his cock in her mouth, and the vibration went straight to his balls.

  He held her head still and started to whip his hips faster until he was full out fucking her mouth. She gave up control easily and opened her throat to take everything he gave.

  She pressed against the very sensitive area behind his balls and he lost control.

  “Oh God!” he cried. “Yes…yes…gonna…” he warned right before he shot down her throat.

  Katy swallowed his seed down until his prick was clean then she released him with a loud wet sound.

  He reached down and pulled her up and into his arms. He was still hard. The best thing about his gift was the ability to go all night long. He could come several times and not lose his erection. Katy had teased him about the vitamins he must take. Soon she would find out what the reason really was.

  He kissed her hard. He didn’t want to think about his powers right then. Or the fact that he believed she had some of her own. She wrapped a leg around his waist and humped up against him.

  He growled and lifted her off the ground before he turned and pressed her against the kitchen wall. Her arms wrapped around his neck and her legs wrapped around his waist. He had always enjoyed this position, having the ability to go inside her deeper than normal.

  He grabbed a hold of his cock and teased the entrance of her pussy.

  “Is this what you want, honey?” he teased.

  “Yes…please,” she begged.

  He started to push inside. She was tight, the walls of her cunt pulsing as he pushed deeper.

  She cried out as he slid all the way inside.

  He paused once he was buried balls-deep, her inner muscles convulsing, trying to hold him inside. “I’m gonna fuck you, darling. Hard and deep. Gonna make you mine,” he told her, his voice strained even to his own ears.

  She moaned and arched her back.

  “Hold onto me,” he ordered then slowly pulled out and plunged back in.

  Sweet sounds tumbled out of her mouth and he stroked in and out of her hard and deep just like he’d promised. Her nails dug into his shoulders as she held on.

  She moved her hips to meet each thrust and the sound of flesh slamming into flesh echoed loudly around them.

  “More,” she begged and he sped up.

  She threw her head back as her body broke apart, and she cried out as she climaxed. It wasn’t enough for him. He was going to claim her. Make her his forever.

  “Again!” he ordered and continued to pound into her.

  She bucked under him, unable to stay with the rhythm. Cameron continued to take her body. He was close again too.

  “You’re going to come with me. This time together,” he told her. “Now!”

  She screamed, her body shaking hard. Cameron bent his head, attached his teeth to her shoulder and bit down.

  He thrust one last time as his cock emptied his seed deep inside her, and he tasted her blood from his bite.

  They both fought to get their breathing under control. When Cameron thought she was ready, he pulled out and slowly let her feet touch the ground.

  She sagged against the wall. “That was…intense,” she finally said.

  “Yeah,” he agreed. He rested his hand against the wall above her head.

  Katy looked up at Cameron as they tried to calm their beating hearts. He waited for the regret to sink in and for it to show in her eyes. When it didn’t come immediately, he relaxed.

  She gazed up into his eyes with a look of concentration, her lip between her teeth.

  “Hey,” Cameron said, running his fingers over her cheek. “No thinking.”

  She smiled. And he was transported back to almost a year ago, when after a long day they would collapse in each other’s arms. When all was right in the world. When he could love her.

  It would pass, he knew that. While right now she was still feeling mushy from their lovemaking, once her brain reconnected she would try to build that wall between them again. This time Cameron wouldn’t let her.

  “I’m surprised we didn’t wake Allysa,” Katy told him and pushed away from the wall.

  “Allysa’s here?” Cameron asked and grabbed his jeans. Shit, he hadn’t even thought about that. As much as he liked Katy’s sister, he didn’t want a witness to their intimate connection.

  Katy giggled, a sound he rarely heard. “She does live here. Luckily she took a sleeping pill before bed and nothing could wake her.” She collected her own clothes and grabbed his hand. “But just in case, maybe we should move this to the bedroom.”

  Cameron grinned. “Bed? I can do lots of things in a bed.”

  She laughed and pulled him towards her room. “Yes, I know.”

  The annoying sound of the alarm chirped loudly from the side of the bed. Katy reached over and smacked the aggravating thing several times before it stopped.

  She groaned and buried her face back into the pillow.

  The pillow that was moving under her cheek.

  “I forgot how much you hate the morning,” Cameron told her with heavy amusement in his voice.

  “Shh…pillows don’t talk,” she complained.

  “Do pillows do this?” he asked right before firm hands grabbed her hips and pulled her on top of him.

  “No,” she mumbled and pressed her face against his chest. “Now please be quiet so we can get some more sleep.”

  “Your alarm went off,” he reminded her.

  “Uh huh,” she agreed.

  “Usually that means it’s time to get up,” he replied.

  “Five more minutes,” she whined.

  “Well, we could sleep for five more minutes or we could…” he trailed off and let his fingers speak for him.

  Oh, she liked that. He used his thumb to manipulate her clit. She rubbed her breasts against his chest. “You think you can get me off in five minutes?” she teased but really was it such a big deal if they were late?

  Cameron laughed and rolled her under him. “We’ll shower together and save even more time.”

  Her laugh was cut off into a moan when he dropped his head and started to lick one nipple. His fingers teased her folds before they found her needy pussy.

  He tongued one breast then the other while his fingers played. He pushed two long digits into her cunt and started to pump his hand in and out. Katy rode his hand while his mouth travelled lower.

  “Please, Cameron…” He felt so good…she would beg.

  “What? What do you want?” he asked, his fingers moving faster.

  “Fuck me, please fuck me.”

  Cameron sucked the flesh of her stomach and raised a mark. “You want me?”

  “Yes,” she told him and spread her legs further.

  Cameron moved up her body quickly. Katy grabbed his hips and pushed up.

  “Then you have me,” he told her and slid inside.

  Katy lifted her hips to accept him. His cock, hard and long, filled her completely. He pulled out slowly and even her body tried to hold him inside.

  Inside her body where he belonged.

  She knew it. Cameron was her one and only, but he would be gone soon. He would return to his normal life and she would go on getting through hers as best she could.

  Overcome with emotion, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close.

  He moved inside her deeply and steadily, each stroke harder than the last. This was what she wanted, him to take her over, to belong again somewhere if just for a moment.

  “Harder,” she demanded. “Take me.”

  Cameron sped up each thrust. Her arms fell from around his shoulders and she reache
d back to grab the headboard.

  “That’s it, Cam. Pound me. Fuck me,” she encouraged.

  He threw his head back and rode her hard. The entire bed shook. Her body was covered with sweat. She could smell him all around her. Together, they were one.

  He scooted closer on his knees, pulling her legs up over his shoulders. She bent in a way that should have hurt but felt remarkable when he plunged deeper than before.

  Her clit tingled, her mind went blank, and distantly she heard her own scream and she orgasmed once, twice, before his warm seed filled her.

  “Love.” The word slipped out in a whisper.

  Cameron watched Katy carefully as they dressed after a shared shower. He was waiting for her to come up with an excuse why they shouldn’t have done what they did last night, or this morning in bed, or a few minutes ago in the shower.

  “Cameron,” she called as she finished tying her boots.

  “Yes,” he answered and crossed his arms over his chest. He wasn’t going to let her push him away.

  “There is a good chance that Allysa is going to be up,” she told him quietly.

  “Okay.”

  She yanked on her ponytail. “Just let me handle this.”

  He wasn’t sure if he could. If she said something stupid to her sister about them, he might be tempted to bend her over his knee and spank her ass. Hell, he was tempted to do it anyway. “We’ll see,” he said instead.

  She narrowed her eyes but he just placed a gentle kiss on her lips and headed to the kitchen.

  Allysa was, in fact, in the kitchen when they walked in. She hid her smile behind a cup of coffee but Cameron still saw it.

  “Good morning,” he greeted as he moved to the coffee pot.

  “Morning, handsome,” Allysa responded.

  Katy was right behind him but she didn’t comment.

  “How are you feeling?” Katy asked her sister instead.

  “I’m good…headache’s gone,” Allysa answered.

  “That’s good.” Katy accepted the cup Cameron handed her. “Maybe you should stay home today.”

  Cameron didn’t miss the look that Allysa sent to her sister. It was one of worry.

  “Maybe you should,” Allysa responded.