Glitter and Gunfire/Bulletproof (Shadow Agents 4)

Not exactly an undying declaration of love. But...

They weren’t talking about love, were they? They had need, desire, and it was a whole lot more than she’d felt in a long time.

“We’ll get your friend back. After that, I’ll take you someplace safe.” His head lowered, and his lips feathered over hers. “But then I want you.”

She could feel his need pressing against her. Rather hard for a girl to miss a sign like that.

“Mercer was right...I am dangerous. Violent. I’ve killed.”

She wanted his mouth back on hers. Not a teasing soft kiss, but hard and fierce and deep. A kiss that made her feel alive.

The way he seemed to so effortlessly do.

“I’m not a good man for you to want.”

He was the only one she wanted.

“But I can’t give you up. Not yet.” Then he was kissing her the way she wanted. With hot passion, stark need. His tongue thrust into her mouth even as his hands curled around her hips, and he lifted her up against his arousal.

She couldn’t ever remember being wanted that completely.

Mercer had asked Cale if he was becoming obsessed.

Cassidy wondered if she was because Cale seemed to be in her very blood.

Her fingers pressed into the broad width of his shoulders as she clung to him. They didn’t have time, didn’t have the privacy for what she wanted.

But she still kissed him...letting him taste the passion that she felt for him. So hot.

“Give me time,” he rasped against her lips. “Don’t vanish with him, not yet.”

She didn’t want to vanish ever again.

“Too many people have left before I was ready,” Cale said. His mouth was inches from hers. “I don’t want to lose you, too.”

“You won’t.” Because she was done running. Cale...she wanted to stay with him. Wanted the passion and the life that others had so easily.

With Cale.

It didn’t seem wrong to her. Nothing had ever seemed more right.

“I’m going to stay with you tonight. Every second, understand?”

Yes, she did.

“When this is over, it will be just you and me.”

That was what she wanted.

“You and me,” Cale repeated.

Those were the words she’d hold tight. They would get her through the danger that was coming.

* * *

CASSIDY’S TELEPHONE RANG as they reached the designated meeting spot. The peal made her jerk in surprise, but Cale had expected the call.

Sydney would be monitoring Cassidy’s phone, trying to track the call’s origin and figure out exactly who they were dealing with.