A DANGEROUS BARGAIN (The Sentinel Demons) Read online

  Zach reached down, picked Kat up and pulled her over him like a blanket. He wrapped his arms around her and held her soft body against his. He wished they were naked, wanting to feel her soft skin against him without any barriers. His arms held her tightly, her head resting on his shoulder.

  “Zach, I’m too heavy to lie on top of you.” Kat squirmed to get away, but she didn’t stand a chance against his demon hold.

  Seriously? I’m a damn demon, and she’s not heavy anyway. He gave her a playful slap on the ass and she stopped. “You feel like perfection.” A thought danced through his mind of her on top of him, riding them both into oblivion. She’d look beautiful, wild and moaning his name as she climaxed.

  Awww…hell. He slammed the fantasy thought closed as a twinge of guilt hit him in the gut.

  As though she could read his thoughts, Kat answered, “I did that because I wanted to, not because I had to.” Her voice was muffled against his shoulder.

  Zach stroked her hair as he replied, “You needed to. It’s the damn bargain.” It pissed him off. He had just had the most incredible orgasm of his life…and his woman had done it because of demon compulsion.

  She pulled back and met his eyes. “I wanted to. Yes, I felt compelled, but I also want you. I wasn’t forced.”

  He didn’t believe her. Demon compulsions were strong. She didn’t know the difference between being compelled and wanting it herself.

  He tried to explain to her, but she insisted, “Zach…you already got off. My panties are soaked and I want you so badly that my whole body aches. The urges to satisfy you are nothing compared to my own desires. Does the bargain include me burning with need even after you just came?”

  Hell no, it didn’t. The bargain only compelled her to satisfy him. “You want me?”

  “Demon…I want you so badly right now I want to rip your clothes off and satisfy myself a hundred different ways.” Kat sighed. “I think I’ll go take a shower.” She sounded flustered and embarrassed by her confession.

  She started to move off him, but Zach clamped his arms around her waist, keeping her tightly against him, his heart hammering with hope.

  He delved into her mind, reading every emotion. Strange, he had always figured those thoughts were his alone, compulsions or part of the demon bargain.

  They weren’t.

  Kat should be feeling satisfied that she had temporarily sated him. But he could feel nothing but yearning, her need for him, her own fantasies.

  Zach grinned at her as he took in the fact that this hadn’t all been coerced on her part. “You have some very naughty fantasies, Kitten.” And damned if he didn’t want to act out every one of them, satisfy her until she begged for mercy. She was the one wanting now, and he was going to be the man to take care of every one of her needs.

  She gave him an exasperated expression. “Zach, I just wanted you to know that it wasn’t forced. I wanted you to understand.”

  He ran his hand over her ass, squeezing each cheek as he pulled her hips to his. “Oh, I understand perfectly now. I’m glad you explained it.”

  Kat actually wanted him. Not because she was under a bargain or because she was compelled. She really wanted him.

  Zach laughed as he sat up, scooping her up with him.

  “Zach…what are you doing?” Her voice sounded panicked.

  Now that he knew that she needed him, there was nothing that could stop him. And it was way past time for her to realize how beautiful she was, how completely irresistible.

  Zach laughed as Kat kicked her feet, trying to get him to put her down. He just held her tighter and sprinted up the stairs, his only want-his greatest need-to satisfy his mate.

  Chapter Seven

  Kat stopped worrying about Zach carrying her generously curved body when he reached the top of the stairs. He wasn’t even out of breath. Holy crap…this demon was strong.

  What in the hell was he up to? She shouldn’t have confessed her desire for him, but she didn’t want him feeling guilty. She had started to care for him and she didn’t want him beating himself up for something that she had enjoyed. She knew he already flogged himself enough over past mistakes. In the darkness of the night, he had told her about his sister, his mother-his regrets. They had shared a lot during those intimate hours together, and Zack had kept her safe in his warm embrace.

  As he slowly lowered her to her feet in the master bedroom, she eyed him nervously. “What are you doing?”

  Kat backed up, but her ass hit the oak bedpost. She wasn’t sure she liked his slightly evil grin. It made her heart flip and her mouth go dry. Surely he wasn’t considering…

  “Kitten, there’s no way I’m letting you go into the shower by yourself.” His voice was graveled as his arm snaked around her waist. “I plan on joining you. I’m sure you can feel what I want right now.”

  She did…and it sent tingles down her spine, in addition to other places on her body. “Why?” Okay…she didn’t understand this, and she wanted to. Zach’s desire was real, and it was a rampant, uncontrolled desire that she just couldn’t comprehend. “I’m not attractive, Zach. I’m not saying that because my self-esteem is low or because I’m insecure. It’s just a fact. My face is plain and if you look close enough, you can see freckles. I’m plump by today’s standards for how a woman should look, and I’m nothing any man desires this much. I’m intelligent, I’m a hard worker, and I’m a survivor…but I am not physically attractive to most men. Especially not to a man like you.” Kat sucked in a deep breath as she finished, feeling strangely comfortable revealing how she felt to Zach.

  He crowded her, pushing her back and ass against the sturdy bedpost and trapping both her arms over her head, gripping them both snugly with one strong hand. His eyes were fierce and beginning to glow amber as he captured her gaze. “I’m not looking at you as just a man; I see you as a Sentinel demon views his radiant. I don’t see insignificant flaws, things you view as unattractive…I see your fucking soul, and its lightness enthralls my darkness. I don’t know how human men see you, and I don’t give a damn as long as they don’t touch you. My vision goes deeper, seeing you from the inside out, and what’s inside you warms me, makes me want to find every freckle on your body so I can worship it. Your softness makes me want to bury myself inside you so deeply that neither one of us can do anything except get lost in the other, joined so tightly that we don’t know where one stops and the other begins. I want that with a need so profound that it’s nearly killing me. There’s not one thing about you that isn’t absolute perfection.” He lowered his head, his mouth so close to her ear that she could feel his hot breath against the sensitive flesh as he rumbled in a low voice, “So don’t tell me that you aren’t beautiful. To me, you’re the most exquisite female on the planet, and there’ll never be another. Understand?”

  Kat was mesmerized by his hypnotic voice and heartfelt declaration. Hard as it might be to believe…he meant every word. She could sense it, feel the truth of his words in her gut. It was hard to wrap her mind around the fact that someone who looked like Zach wanted her so desperately, but it was a heady feeling, one she had never experienced before. “I’m not used to it,” she admitted in a breathy voice.

  “Get used to it,” he warned in a husky voice. “I’ll never see you any other way.”

  Kat gulped as Zach released her and whipped his t-shirt over his head, baring his upper body. She quivered as his sexual needs consumed her. “You’re doing that on purpose. Letting me feel your wants.”

  “Damn right, I am. I’m not even trying to hold back on thinking about what I want right now. I want you to feel it. I want you to own it. Because you’re the only woman who’s ever made me this insane. And I think it’s time for you to understand just how much I want you and just how much I want to satisfy your needs.” His jeans and briefs were gone seconds later and he was gloriously nude, looking better than in her wildest fantasies.

  His body was perfect, every muscle sculpted and defined, his enormous cock
nestled against his rock hard abs. He could have been carved from marble, but she knew he wasn’t. Zach’s body was hot and alive, and so incredibly responsive to her touch. She’d just experienced the truth of that on the couch downstairs.

  Kat’s brain was bombarded with scenes of them wet and naked, which she struggled and failed to contain. Protesting as he pulled her lightweight shirt over her head was out of the question. His greatest need right now was to have her naked and wet…and she couldn’t fight against his desire. It was her desire, too, and her inexperience warred with overwhelming passion, but desire squelched the negative voices. Raw need was stronger, more powerful, impossible to deny.

  Kat had little time for internal struggle-Zach had her naked so fast that she didn’t have time to think for long.

  His eyes lit with unmasked desire as he slowly devoured her with his head-to-toe appraisal. No man had ever looked at her this way. She had never imagined a man surveying her in a completely carnal manner-like he was consumed by hunger and wanted to have her for dinner…and dessert.

  He pulled her willing body toward the master bathroom, one that she hadn’t used before. It was designed exactly the same as the one attached to the guest room she was using.

  The Jacuzzi shower was running, obviously adjusted by Zach’s demon magic. It was turned to her favorite rainfall ceiling setting, with circular lights that gave the shower a romantic, dreamy atmosphere.

  Zach pulled her into the enclosure and closed the door as he murmured, “I don’t think we need to turn on the steam. I have plans to produce enough of our own.”

  Kat’s breath sawed in and out of her lungs as he pulled her against him, skin to skin, and kissed her with an intensity that sucked the air from her lungs. Arms around her waist, he conquered her mouth, weaving their tongues together in an intimate dance. He was all raw male dominance, and she gave in to her urge to let herself be conquered by him.

  His hands glided along her wet skin, sending a shiver down her spine. As his mouth moved to her ear, she heard him rasp, “My greatest need right now is to hear you moaning my name as you come.” His hand snaked between her legs, causing her to gasp as his fingers slid dominantly between her tights. “So hot, so wet. I can feel your need, read your desire, and it’s driving me insane.” Kat moaned as his fingers stroked effortlessly through her slick folds, seeking and finding her clit. His mouth moved to her ample breasts, nipping and tugging at her already hard, sensitive nipples. He bit gently and soothed with his tongue, the pleasure/pain sensation making her begin to unravel.

  “Please.” Kat wasn’t sure what she was begging for, but she was getting the double whammy as his needs and hers combined, making her body ignite and her pussy quiver. Zach’s driving need at the moment was to make her climax intensely, over and over.

  His eyes were amber and bright as he pulled his head back to look at her. He turned her, angling her back against his chest as he lifted her leg to place it onto a large, built-in seat.

  Zach fell to his knees, pulling Kat’s other leg out so that she was spread wide and vulnerable.

  Whimpering helplessly as his fingers again began their assault on her pussy from behind, Kat’s hands slapped against the wall in front of her to keep from tumbling over.

  His need to satisfy her.

  Her need for release.

  Both bombarded her as he slipped two fingers into her empty channel, stroking in and out in a deep, slow rhythm that only increased her frustration. “Please, Zach.” She was nearly sobbing for release and she pounded the wall with her fists as he worked his fingers in and out of her channel, stroking deeply, caressing a g-spot she had never known she had.

  It was too much. Too much. Too much sensation, too much pleasure.

  Zach’s hand spread her folds, exposing her clit.

  The shower changed from a light rainfall to a true Jacuzzi jet spray and her clit was right in the path of one of the powerful massage jets.

  “Zach! Oh, God.” Kat was screaming at the increased speed of his finger-fucking combined with the massaging warm water hitting her exposed nub. The pulsating water felt like a fast-moving tongue over her clit and Zach’s penetrations were driving her mad.

  Kat’s climax hit like a tornado, ripping into her with a force that was out of control. Her body bucked and writhed as she whimpered and moaned. Her channel gripped Zach’s fingers as he pumped hard and fast, his ministrations absolutely relentless. He had but one want at the moment, and that was to see her climax. Hard.

  She came apart, not sure if she would ever be able to put the pieces back together. A flood of creamy release flowed over Zach’s fingers and she heard a low growl as he caught her when her legs failed to keep her standing.

  He swung her onto the seat that had previously been supporting her leg and spread her thighs apart. Resting against the back wall, she let her head fall back for support.

  “I love feeling you come. You’re so responsive to me. I have to taste your pleasure,” he said harshly.

  Dear God, her body had never responded this way, but then, she had also never been taken by a demon.

  Zach was still kneeling, leaning over her spent body as he whispered roughly in her ear, “You haven’t been taken, Kat. Not yet.”

  The shower returned to a rainfall as Zach lifted her legs up and buried his face between them with a snarl.

  He lapped at her folds, tasting her climax, swallowing her essence. He took his time, laving her clit, exploring her tender flesh.

  Kat’s hips tried to lift to increase the erotic pressure. How was it possible to still need him so badly after what had just happened? Her body was again pleading for relief as she grasped his head and pulled his face closer, holding him tighter, plunging her fingers into his wet hair.

  Zach’s tongue meandered along her pulsating bud, lifting the protective hood, leaving her bare to him.

  “I need to come, Zach. Please,” Kat panted as she squirmed, her ass sliding on the slippery seat.

  The moment his teeth nipped over her clit and his tongue vibrated over her naked bud, the spasms clenched her pussy, releasing another flood of release. “Ah, God…Zach. Yes.” Her climax was violent, rolling over every inch of her body.

  He sipped the juices that were a result of her ecstasy, groaning against her core.

  Her head thrashed as she cried, “I didn’t know. I didn’t know.”

  Zach slid up her body and pulled her wet, trembling form against him. “Didn’t know what, Kitten?”

  She released a strangled sob. “That it could be so intense, that it could feel like that.”

  He held her tightly, and she knew he understood. He could catch her raging emotions and thoughts and figure it out. It was a relief not to try to explain it. She was too overwhelmed and she couldn’t find the words.

  Kat’s body was completely limp, but her mind was reeling over the discovery that sexual acts could be that all-consuming, that mind-blowing.

  She clenched Zach tightly against her body, mindless of the water flowing over them like a gentle rain. The only thing she felt was Zach.

  Zach lifted her gently and stepped out of the shower. Sitting her in a chair, he toweled her dry and brushed her damp hair. After drying himself and shutting off the water, he scooped her up and deposited her in the bed. He spooned himself around her, pulling her body tightly against him.

  She was just drifting off to sleep when she felt him bury his face in her damp hair, his breath warm against her neck as she thought she heard him murmur softly, “I didn’t know either, Kat. It’s never been like this for me. Not even close.”

  They were both asleep moments later.

  Chapter Eight

  Kat fought against waking, happy in her warm cocoon of slumber, but the demands of her body wouldn’t be ignored. It only took her a moment to realize why her body felt like it was being licked with flames of desire.

  Feeling Zach’s hard chest against her back, his hand caressing her nipples and his fingers teasing her
damp folds, she knew exactly why she had to wake up. Her body was on fire…and so was Zach’s.

  She pushed back against his erect member, eliciting a low groan from him as he whispered in her ear, “Good morning.”

  The seductive tone only made her pussy spring forth more moisture as he rolled her onto her back. He dropped hot, open-mouthed kisses over her face and neck as he spread her legs wide and positioned himself between them. She could feel his enormous cock sliding up and down her slit, coating itself with her abundant fluid.

  “I can’t be patient, Kitten. I need this too much,” he groaned, his face desperate.

  Waiting was the last thing she wanted. No teasing, no tormenting. She just wanted him. She slid her arms around his neck, hungry to be filled. “Fuck me, Zach. Please.”

  He groaned as he slid the head inside her entrance and thrust. “Kat, you’re so damn tight.”

  “I-I’m not very experienced.” Would he be turned off by her lack of skill? Oh God…she hoped not. She wasn’t used to someone of his size invading her channel, but it didn’t hurt. It burned with an erotic sensation that incited her urgency to feel his cock inside her, deep and hard. Her primal need for him was raw and incredibly carnal.

  “I don’t want experience, but I don’t want to hurt you. I just want to be inside you,” Zach rasped as he stroked another inch and her pussy swallowed it.

  “No control, demon. You don’t need it. Just give it to me.” Her hips rolled up and she planted her feet on the mattress. Her feet found purchase on the smooth, silk sheets and she met his next stroke with one of her own.

  “Fuck!” Zach panted as he became buried inside her.

  Kat moaned at the feel of his possession, her walls expanding to take his total length and girth.

  Incredible.

  Zach’s breath was hot and heavy, his body not moving. Kat knew he was struggling for control. But she didn’t want him controlled. Right now she needed him to feel as earthy and animalistic as she did.