Page 90 of Spy With Me
“I’m only saying she either needs to punch something or getlaid, and I can only help with one of those things,” Kala admitted and thenseemed to consider. “Or…and hear me out…we trick Zach and tie his ass up andlet Devi go at him.”
“I’m the menace?” Kenzie pointed a thumb her sister’s way.“We are not sexually assaulting Zach.”
“I don’t think it would actually be assault. More like a funway to start a night,” Kala argued. “Look, it worked for me and Coop, though hestill complains about the flowers on his dick. Apparently dudes are realsensitive.”
“Devi, are you scared?” Lou sat down next to her. “Becauseyou’ve been through a lot in the last couple of weeks. Do you want to be hereor do you want to go home?”
“She’s not leaving Zach,” Tasha said. “Oh, she can talkabout how this is all sex, but she’s not leaving him, and I doubt Dad is tryingto convince him to leave her. He’s probably talking about condoms.”
Devi felt her whole body heat with embarrassment. “Hedoesn’t need the condom talk. He uses one, but he doesn’t have to. I’m on birthcontrol.”
“Oh, the condom talk can go a couple of different ways,”Tasha assured her. “But it’s more about talking about the heart. You see thecondom is…Oww.” Tasha reached over and picked up thehair tie her sister had lobbed her way. “Very mature, Kala.”
“Well, you were talking about hearts and condoms, and Icouldn’t let you embarrass yourself,” Kala replied, completely comfortable withher older sister shooting daggers her way. With her eyes, of course, althoughDevi had to admit if Tash had a couple of daggers, Kala would likely see it asa fun exercise. “Devi is freaking out but it’s fine. We all freak out a littlewhen we do this thing.”
“This thing?” Tash asked.
Kenzie shrugged. “Yeah, that’s what she calls epic lovestories. She’s not very romantic, and I’m with Tash. Dad’s really talking aboutthe condom we put around our hearts to protect them. Sometimes you leave that…”Kenzie ducked the flying hair tie her sister sent her way and continued asthough it hadn’t happened. “…off. Sometimes you have to take the leap and gowith the flow.”
“The flow is him being dead or in prison.” Her cousins couldjoke all they liked, but she was still stuck. Stuck. Was that how it wouldalways be? Would every man she met be put up against Zach and found wanting?
“Dad isn’t going to let that happen.” Kala seemed to getserious.
“Your dad isn’t some magical god who can wave his hand andmake this go away.” She was on the edge. So close to it, and this wasn’t whereshe expected to be today. She was supposed to have dinner and drink tea, andLacey was supposed to be Lacey and they would argue about what to watch ontellyand then she would go to bed with Zach and he wouldbe all over her and she would sleep like a baby in his arms and pretend thatevery day would be exactly like that one.
“Don’t tell him that.” Kenzie sat down beside her twin.“Devi, it’s going to be okay. If you want Zach, we can make it happen. I know Irejected the idea of tying Zach up, but it could work. We lock him in a roomwith a nice bed and then indoctrinate him with rom-coms. This is something I’vebeen thinking about for a while. If all that’s available to him is sex androm-coms, he won’t have anything better to do than fall in love. It’s likebrainwashing but for his dick.”
Kala’s eyes had gone wide, and she looked at Kenzie. “I feelbad for Parker now.”
Kenzie shrugged. “I would only do it if he’s beingstubborn.”
“I don’t see how Uncle Ian is going to solve this.” Shestood. She wanted to be alone. She wanted to cry, and she couldn’t do it here.Deep breath. Remember all the reasons why being near Zach is a bad thing. Deviplastered what she hoped was a sunny smile on her face. “Besides, I don’t thinkZach is in love with me. I’m a rebound from Tash. It’s been fun but it’snothing more than that.”
“Rebound?” Tasha’s head shook. “That’s not what’s happeningat all.”
“Marry me.”
Her whole world seemed to freeze because that wasn’t aquestion. It was a command, and it hadn’t come from her cousins or Lou, who hadwide eyes now, too. She was staring at the man who stood in the doorway.
“You’re so fucking worried that I only love you because yourlast name is Taggart,” Zach said grimly. “So let’s change it.”
Tears filled her eyes when she turned because it was clearhe’d been crying. Her big, gorgeous, masculine Dom had been crying. It didn’tmatter that he cared about Tasha. It didn’t matter that he was on the run andhe lied to her. It didn’t matter that they had no future. All that mattered washow her heart opened and started to beat again when he was in the room.
“See, there is no condom on his heart right now,” Tashawhispered.
Tash was annoying and Devi kind of hoped Kala had endlesshair ties, but she ignored all of them. All she could see was Zach.
She should run because if she moved into his arms, she woulddo everything he asked.
She crossed the room and went on her toes and put her mouthon his.
His hands immediately went to cup her head and hold herwhile he devoured her mouth. His tongue surged inside, wasting no time withniceties. He inhaled her, and she gave it all back to him.
His hands moved and he didn’t bother to stop kissing her ashe picked her up and began to move down the hall. He kissed her over and over.She heard the door slam as he kicked it closed and then he shoved her upagainst the wall and his chest was against hers, feet off the ground. He heldher in place.
“Marry me.”
Again, not a question, but she had one of her own. She heldon with one hand and smoothed back his hair with the other, searching his eyesfor the truth. “Why?”
