Zeke

I parked across from the Upper West Side brownstone. The place was only a few blocks from Sunny’s house, but the ones on this street were bigger, and a fuck of a lot more expensive.

She shifted in her seat beside me. “So what are you looking for?”

I turned to her, and my eyes immediately dropped to the top she was wearing. It was blue, heading toward violet, almost the same color as her eyes, which was why I picked it. And against her blond hair, shit, her eyes were stunning, almost glowing. Looking at this woman made my pulse race. I’d never admit to her how carefully I’d picked out her clothes, how seeing her in what I’d chosen made me feel things, possessive, intense things I should not be feeling.

Yep. Fucking Caveman.

“Infidelity case,” I said, and again told myself just how dumb I was for bringing her with me. What the hell was I doing? But hearing her admit that she didn’t want to be alone . . . how could I just leave her there, especially after last night? Sunny had given me a little more of what she kept hidden behind those smiles, had revealed another layer to me. She may have avoided my attempt to go deeper, but she’d told me more than enough to get a picture of the kind of life she had growing up. Cold and lonely. Yeah, today was just one day, and changed not one thing, but I got the feeling she’d had enough of being on her own—feeling alone, afraid, to last her a lifetime.

Besides, there was no danger to her, coming with me on this job. This case was straight surveillance.

Her eyes widened. “Really?”

“We don’t do a lot of these, but this guy is high profile, which means a decent payday for fuck-all effort.” I shrugged. “And Jude knows the guy, he’s high up in the force and by all accounts a major asshole.” I shrugged again.

Her lips curled up. Shit, that crooked grin got to me every goddamn time. It also sent the protective side of me haywire, reminding me of how vulnerable she was. That when I took her home tomorrow, she’d be on her own again.

Shit.

It took everything in me not to lean over and kiss her.

“So this is payback?” Her grin turned into a full-on smile.

My gut tightened and I quickly looked away. “Jude wouldn’t mind fucking up this guy’s day.” I made like I was watching the house, but I just needed a minute to get my shit together. After waking up like I had, my arm so tight around her I more than likely left bruises, then walking out when she’d tried to comfort me, I was finding it harder than usual. Christ, I’d wanted to stay where I was, absorb her warmth, let her arms around me soothe the pain, chase away the nightmares. But I couldn’t.

That pain was there for reason. I couldn’t forget, not even for a moment, what I owed those men.

“So what happens now?” she asked pulling me out of my own head.

“Now we wait for our target to show up and take some action shots.”

Her eyes got wider and it was insanely hot. Also cute as hell. I wanted to wrap her up in cotton wool and never let her out of my sight again. “What . . . you mean . . . action shots?”

My lips twitched, damn close to an actual smile. I hadn’t smiled since before I came home. Sunny had gotten me there twice now in two days. “Gotta have proof,” I said.

“Wow,” she whispered. “That’s crazy.” She screwed her face up. “Can’t be much fun.”

“Depends who you’re taking pics of,” I said teasing.

When was the last time I teased anyone?

She giggled, that nervous giggle, the one I heard that first night in the bar. The one that had me ready to throw her over my shoulder and drag her home with me.

“Not many can say their job includes a bit of voyeurism,” she said, humor still in her voice.

Fuck, I wanted her. Under me, riding me, riding my mouth, my fingers, my cock. I choked back the growl trying to crawl up my throat.

“Oh! A car,” she said excitedly.

I twisted in my seat and checked it out. “That’s our man.”

We watched him climb out, straighten his jacket, then take the front steps to the brownstone. He knocked on the door, and I lifted my camera, waiting. The door opened a few seconds later, and a woman not wearing much of anything stood there with a huge smile on her face. She jumped into his arms. I took a couple shots. They were good, but we needed actual fucking for our client.

“Are they both married?” Sunny asked.

“He is. Got three kids, too.”

She was quiet a few seconds, then, “What a giant asshole.”

“Yep.” I grabbed my equipment. “I need to get up on the opposite building, need a better viewpoint. Wait here.”

Her head twisted to me and she licked her lips. “I want to come with you.”

Jesus, was she that spooked that she couldn’t even bear to sit in a locked car on her own? I hated that I hadn’t found her attacker yet, that I hadn’t made him pay. “Yeah.” I pushed my door open. “Let’s go.”

We were parked beside a converted town house, now apartments. I led Sunny inside and up to the roof. The camera I had was more than strong enough to get a good shot from this distance. We walked to the edge and I handed her a pair of binoculars, while I attached the long-range lens to the camera. “You see them?”

She lifted the binoculars to her eyes and her whole body froze.

“Sunny?”

“Yep,” she choked out. “Third story window, far right. I can see them. You better be quick with that camera.”

I lifted the camera and sure enough, they were already going at each other. Our target had his bit-on-the-side bent over the bed. He was on the floor on his knees, face buried in her ass. I snapped a few shots then waited. The more compromising the shots, the better. His wife didn’t deserve this, and with these her case would be airtight.

I glanced at Sunny. She still had her binoculars up, watching the action, and fuck, her face was flushed, her breathing coming a little faster. She was turned on, watching was getting her hot. Shit, seeing that, how much it was affecting her, had my dick surging behind my jeans like she’s reached out and grabbed it. Her breath hitched and she bit her bottom lip.

Was she wet right now?

Jesus fucking Christ.

I tore my eyes from her. I needed to hurry up and get these last few shots, and as soon as I did I was taking her home, and I was going to ease that ache between her thighs. And I knew she was aching because she was squeezing her thighs together in a way that was making me insane. I lifted the camera again and things had escalated. The guy’s pants were down around his ankles, balls deep in the woman still bent over the bed, fucking her hard and fast.

There was no mistaking what was going on in there. No talking his way out of it. I snapped three more shots then pulled off the lens and shoved it and the camera back in the bag.

Sunny was still watching. The woman was so into it, she hadn’t even seen me pack up.

Stopping myself from putting down the bag and moving in behind her was an impossibility. She jolted when I pressed into her back, wrapping my arms around her, one hand going to her tit the other sliding between her legs. I pressed my mouth to her ear. “Spread your legs wider.”

“I . . . um, we should go, shouldn’t we?” she said.

“Now, Sunshine,” I growled. This was a bad idea, but I had to know how wet she was, right goddamn now.

She stepped out immediately. I wasn’t going to fuck her up here, but I could get her off. Shit, I needed to get her off. I unsnapped her jeans and her breath hitched. She started to drop the binoculars.

“Leave them,” I said. “Is he still fucking her?”

“Yes,” she whispered. “He’s on the bed now, she . . . she’s riding him.”

“Kept watching,” I said and slid my hand down the front of her panties and groaned. “Christ, darlin’. You’re so hot, so goddamn wet.”

One of her hands dropped to my wrist and she gripped it, holding me there, like she was afraid I’d pull away and leave her wanting. Like fuck.

“I’m going to play with your clit until you come,” I said. “I’m not pushing my fingers inside, though. You’ll have to wait till we get home for that.”

She moaned. “Please.”

“As soon as we walk in the door, I’m on you, Sunny. I’m going to fill you so hard and fast and deep, we’ll both lose our damn minds.”

“Yes. Oh God, I’m close.”

I slid two fingers over her tight, little clit faster, while I sucked and nipped her neck, her ear, absorbing every sound, every jolt of her body as she took the pleasure I gave her. “You nearly there, Sunshine? Let me feel it.”

She went solid in my arms and her nails dug into my wrist, then she was crying out, coming for me so sweetly I almost changed my mind and fucked her right there on the roof of that apartment building.

“So perfect,” I said against her ear, because she was. The woman was utter perfection.

I did up her jeans, took her hand, scooped up my camera bag, and led her back downstairs to the car. She followed, and the way she gripped my hand, I knew she was as desperate for me as I was for her. We got in the car and I headed for my warehouse. I knew exactly what was going to happen when we got there and so did she. Neither one of us was going to stop it. I’d decided to leave her alone after last night—I was full of shit. I wasn’t ready for that. Despite what I knew was healthy.

As soon as the warehouse’s roller door slid shut behind us, I was out of the car. She met me at the front and I took her hand again, not letting go as I disarmed the alarm and led her inside, across the floor, and up to my bed. I could have pushed her to the floor and fucked her there, that’s how much I wanted inside her, but she deserved better than that. I couldn’t give her much, but I could make this good, I could show her that even if all we could have was this, she wasn’t just some nameless piece of ass. No, it couldn’t ever be more, a relationship, but she meant something to me.

As soon as we hit the room she turned to me, coming at me. Her chest collided with mine and I gripped her shirt, dragging it over her head. We went at each other then, tearing each other’s clothes off until we were both naked. I dropped to the bed. “Climb on,” I said, voice about ten octaves lower than usual.

As soon as she’d straddled my hips, though, I tugged her higher. I said I’d be inside her as soon as we walked in, but I wanted her riding my mouth first. She caught on to what I wanted and quickly moved higher, thighs straddling either side of my head, hands going to the wall for support. Shit, perfect. I gripped her ass and slid my tongue through her slick pussy, growling at her taste. I looked up as I ate her, watching the way she moved, the way her eyes closed and she bit her lip, face flushed, tits jiggling.

I was pretty sure I could come like this, without her even touching my dick. There was nothing hotter than watching Sunny work herself up on my mouth.

Her eyes snapped open suddenly and she looked down at me, mouth dropping open. One of her hands dropped to my head, fingers thrusting into my hair and fisting as she rolled her hips. “Yes!” she cried. Then she was coming against my mouth, calling my name while she rode it out. She went slack, leaning on the wall and I pulled her down my body and flipped us, so she was on her back.

“Gonna fuck you now, Sunshine.”

She blinked up at me, sliding her hands around my neck. “Yes,” she whispered. “I need you inside me.”

Fuck.

I shoved her legs wide, positioned, and slammed in deep. Motherfucker. The way her pussy gripped me, shit, I thought I’d lose my mind. I definitely lost my control. I fucked into her with everything I had, while she clung to me, absorbing every wild, hard thrust I gave her.

“Baby,” she rasped. “I’m going to . . . ahhh.”

Then she was clamping down on me so hard, my eyesight fucking blacked out—that, plus the way she’d just called me baby, I was gone, roaring as I blew the hell up. I pumped into her, giving it to her, letting her feel every hard pulse of my cock as she took me there. She wrung me dry, her body working me until I had nothing left and I collapsed on top of her. I wrapped my arms around her and rolled her to her side so I didn’t squash her.

Lying like this, I could feel the way her heart was pounding—almost as fast as mine.

I absorbed it, wasn’t moving from this spot. Right then, I didn’t care about anything but Sunny in my bed.

We weren’t going anywhere for the rest of the damn day.