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hunger, her yearning for the force and the ragged edge of his rough need, and
the breathless wonder of her nearly drove him over the edge. Her body went
rigid and her head went back and she screamed in wordless release.
His breath sobbed out of him as she groaned, "Yes, more." He tightened his
grip on her, pounded into her harder, faster, and she dug fingers into his
shoulders, arched and writhed, screamed, "Harder, harder," while his muscles
and skin went molten, incandescent, and the connection of him to her, him in
her, them together as one grew brighter and brighter until he shut his eyes
tight against the light of her, and even then she burned behind his eyelids
like too much sun.
He felt like he was going to shake apart, like he was going to explode from
the inside out& like he was going to disappear into smoke and flames and
pleasure
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comprehend. She collapsed against him, boneless, and he carried her to the
daybed without pulling free of her, and carefully he laid her down on it, and
moved over her.
"Look at me," he whispered. "Be with me."
She opened her eyes. Touched the sweat on his forehead and looked into his
eyes and smiled, and whispered, "You're wonderful."
He shuddered, and she touched the scars on his face lightly, and her eyes went
feral as she said, "Give me all of you. Everything."
"Yes," he growled, and she lifted her hips to collide with him hard and fast,
and she watched him through half-closed eyes. He lost himself in her ferocious
wanting and luxuriated in the pleasure in her murmured urgings until control
eluded her and her head tossed and her eyes shut of their own accord, her
fingers locked onto the covers, and this time he let himself go all the way,
holding nothing back, crashing faster, harder, deeper into her until they
exploded together, shuddering, lost and found at once, and they fell together,
exhausted, exhilarated, thrilled.
Slowly and carefully then, he lowered himself onto her. He stroked her lips
with a finger, and brushed his cheek against hers.
"You had all of me from your first touch," he whispered.
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They managed to get back to supper while the pasta was still warm, at least.
Jess wished she could remember more of how it tasted, but at that point food
was nothing more than fuel to get her and Hank to the next round. They ate,
they laughed, but as soon as they were done, they were back in bed. And then
on the floor, somehow, and then in the shower.
At one point, she said, "You know, we're doing a terrible job of keeping this
thing between us platonic."
And he laughed a little and said, "I know. But it's okay. The guys are on a
stakeout right now, at the house of the woman who was going to be the next
victim. They're going to get these bastards tonight."
"You're sure?" She was startled and hopeful and worried all at the same time.
She wanted the case to be solved, but she didn't want to not have Hank around
every day, every night, all the time.
She couldn't get enough of him. If she could have fused the two of them into
one person, she wouldn't have had enough of him.
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Finally, in the small hours of the morning, they lay side by side in her
daybed, tangled together because they didn't have enough room for anything
else, and because even exhausted, they still wanted to be touching.
"You're amazing," he whispered. "I can't believe someone before me hasn't
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Or at least managed to hang on to you."
Jess lay back and closed her eyes. "I& ah& there was only one other man. We
were serious about each other. I thought it was going to be forever. But my
work got in the way, and I couldn't give up my work."
"One. You mean& that you were engaged to or married to or something, right?
Not that you've been with."
"That I've been with," she said.
He shook his head, looking puzzled. "Recent breakup?"
"No. A long time ago."
"Jess& why? You're beautiful. You're wonderful. You wouldn't have to be
alone."
"I've never cared much for promiscuity. Sex for the sake of sex I could manage
all by myself. So I did. I figured I'd make love with someone when it was
making love. When it mattered."
He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close. "You don't know me. You
don't know much about me at all. So& why me?" His voice sounded so hoarse.
"Why me, of all the men in the world?"
She touched his lips. She couldn't promise him anything. Odds were that when
this case was over, the two of them would walk away from each other, because
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and he wasn't the sort of man who could be second. Or who should be second.
Maybe she shouldn't have done this. But she hadn't wanted to resist him. Of
all the men she'd ever known, he was the only one she had to have.
She didn't know what that meant. She said, "Because you matter. I don't know
where we're going; I don't know if this is something that can last. I have no
idea if I'm right for you. But you're right for me."
He wrapped his arms around her, held her close. And then suddenly he rolled
away from her and growled, "Fuck," and rubbed at his eyes.
"What?"
"Tears," he said. "Shit."
Jess's throat clogged, and for a moment she couldn't quite catch her breath.
She couldn't think of anything to say. So she held him. And then he rolled
over and held her. Jess drifted toward sleep, her body cradled against his.
They fit. They fit like they were both pieces of a two-piece jigsaw puzzle.
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