Page 44 of The Devil's Embrace

“Have you really not noticed how badly I want you?” Aodhan chuckled. “Wow, Cal. I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not. Here I thought I was being obvious, pulling out all the stops by bringing you dinner and asking you about your day.”

“You haven’t asked me that.”

“Not yet. I was working up to it.” He set his elbows on the table and propped his chin on them. “How was your day, Detective? Do anything fun? Think of me naked at all?”

Cal choked on another bite, but this time, he glared across the table at the doctor as he chugged the rest of his drink.

Aodhan merely laughed harder. “I’m going to choose to take that as a yes.”

“Haveyouthought ofmenaked?” he countered, realizing too late he was flustered.

“Yes,” Aodhan replied. “I’m doing it right now, in fact.”

“You’re—” Calix couldn’t bring himself to say it, clamping his mouth shut. Then, because he really must hate himself, he ended up stating, “I’m leaving once I solve this case. I’m not staying on planet.”

“Relax,” he continued to smile, “this isn’t a marriage proposal. I’m attracted to you. Ilikeyou. I’d like to be inside of you. That’s all.”

“Oh, is that all.”

“You’d like it, too.” His grin widened, turning wolfish. “Promise. What do you say, Detective?”

“Say?”

“About me getting inside of you.”

“Aren’t you moving kind of fast?” Cal asked.

“Not at all.” Aodhan stood. “You aren’t planning on sticking around long, remember? I’ve got to make the most of the time you’ll give me. So?” He stepped around the table, stopping at Calix’s side so he was forced to tip his head to maintain eye contact with the doctor. “Would you like me to tell you about Act Two, or,” he dropped one hand to the back of Cal’s chair, the other to the table, blocking him in, “would you like me to give you a demonstration?”

Cal’s eyes narrowed. “You think I’ll turn you down.”

“Aren’t you planning on it?” he countered, the challenge clear as day.

He should, because getting involved with their liaison wasn’t professional. It was risky.

“You obviously don’t know me very well,” he found himself saying, flattening a hand against the center of Aodhan’s chest before shoving him away. Cal stood and followed, keeping his palm against the doctor all the while, pushing him until they’d entered the living room area of the suite.

Calix retreated once they were there, putting a few feet of space between them, and then started to undress. He took his time with it, enjoying the way Aodhan’s pink gaze tracked his movements as he stripped out of his tan bomber jacket and then lifted his white t-shirt over his head.

He didn’t hear the other man move, so he wasn’t prepared for Aodhan’s hands on his belt, unsnapping the leather and yanking it free before Cal had gotten the shirt fully over his head. He gasped when those frantic fingers tugged on the waistband of his white jeans, helping him out of the rest of his clothes in a flash of motion that should have given him whiplash.

The next thing he knew, Aodhan had him sprawled out on the couch, naked and trembling.

When the doctor’s mouth found his, he moaned against his lips, sucking down his hot breath along with his tongue.Electricity buzzed through him, sparking across his skin straight to his balls and he felt his dick twitch to life.

“It was like role play,” Aodhan breathed against him as he spoke, nipping at him between words. “That night? Act Two? She turned that man in the black mask into putty in her hand. Made him submissive and docile. Willing to do anything to please her. Can you do that, Cal? Do you still want to?”

“Want to play?” He gripped the base of Aodhan’s skull and tugged him in close so he could feast on his mouth for another minute before letting him go long enough to growl, “Yes. Yes, Doctor. I want to play with you.”

A sound of desire rumbled out of Aodhan, and the look in his eyes shifted to something darker. Something that might have frightened Calix—or at the very least warned him off—if he were in any other circumstance.

As it were, his dick was too hard and he was already too drunk on the other man to notice a damn thing.

Chapter 14:

It wasn’t enough.

Aodhan kissed him passionately, but it wasn’t all-consuming. Wasn’t that same desperate rush that Calix had gotten when they’d been at the party, only one room away from a man being cut in half.

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