Catch Him(46)

Sinead jutted her chin in the air, not liking the word foolish. “You can’t make me stay.”

“No,” he said, moving toward her. “But I can make you want to stay. Now do you want to fuck or make love?”





Chapter 15





In the end he did both. Sinead was lying in his bed, staring up at the ceiling wondering what kind of idiot she was. He’d lied to her. Maybe worse than that, he’d left her.

Then there was that letter.

She turned on her side and brought her fist down hard on his stomach. He made a woofing sound, but the truth was his abs were rock solid.

“What was that for?”

“Your obvious innocence, if lack of judgment…” she quoted.

He had the good sense to wince. “At the time I wrote it, I was hoping to make you hate me. That it might help you to move on with your life. I was in fact being noble.”

“It pissed me off.”

“I see that,” he said as he turned on his side to face her. “Hence your arrival here. I’m beginning to see that I might have underestimated you.”

“You totally underestimated me,” she scoffed. “You kept saying how innocent and virginal I was. You forgot I was a cop. Raised by another cop.”

“Right. You should know you’ve upset my co-worker very much. He doesn’t lose people very often.”

She laughed. “That was the trick. I took him to the airport and lost him in long-term parking. I wanted him to think I was flying. Instead I left the airport and drove across the country. Two days of straight driving. Almost twenty hours each day. Then I got here and had to find the damn farm. It was a good thing I was so mad at you. It’s the only thing that kept me from falling asleep at the wheel.”

She felt him stiffen for a moment, but then he relaxed and the way he was looking at her as he brushed her hair out of her face… it was if he loved her. Really loved her. She wanted to punch him again to make that face go away.

“You just left me,” she said, and she knew she was pouting, which annoyed her even more. But pouting was better than crying.

“I’m sorry, love. I didn’t think I had a choice. I meant every word I said. I fell in love with you and I was selfish enough to want you to know it. My heart was breaking as much as yours. You have to believe that. I didn’t think I could have you. It was only when I was back here that I started to realize I had made a mistake. That I couldn’t not have you. You showing up here merely expedited our reunion  . Eventually I would have come for you.”

“I didn’t come here for a reunion  . I came here to end you.”

Declan smiled. “Yes, my lovely, I felt very ended when you were blowing me downstairs. And ended again when you spread your legs and let me eat your pussy just a little while ago. Then you ended me even more when you were on all fours…”

“Okay, I get it,” she huffed. “Apparently, I’m addicted to your dick.”

“No, love. You love me, so you can’t help yourself. I think I’m ready to hear you say that now. My name was important, and the first time you said it was delicious. Now I want more.”

Sinead shut her mouth and shook her head in the fine tradition of five-year-olds everywhere.

“You’re going to tell me eventually,” Declan said smugly.

“You have no idea how stubborn I can be.”

“Mmm… we’ll see. In the meantime, Mary will have a nice dinner prepared and we should keep our strength up if we’re going to be fucking all night. Besides that, I’m excited for you two to know each other.”

Declan rolled out of bed and Sinead didn’t mind watching his naked ass, which she also thought was delectable, as he made his way to the bathroom.

“You know,” she said to the empty room, although she was sure he could hear her. “If you’re this big bad baddy, I’m surprised you actually let Garrett live. From what Mary told me of her injuries, he really wailed on her.”

When he came back out dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt, there was a look on his face that she’d never seen. All the ease and charm of him was gone. In their place was an expression of cold hard ice. Yes, this man, she thought was entirely dangerous. Strangely, she wasn’t afraid of him.

“Mary asked me not to kill him. She thought my soul would suffer for it. It would not have.”

Big bad baddy, she’d called him. Made it almost seem funny, but it wasn’t. Lucifer. Beautiful like an angel, but deadly too. Sinead wondered if that was something she could handle.

“You really are dangerous when you want to be, aren’t you?”

“Yes. I said as much before. You can’t say I didn’t warn you. I want to give you only the light, but you need to know the dark is there too.”