“Open your eyes, Caroline.” I did and met his hungry gaze. “You’re even sweeter than I hoped.” His voice rumbled against me, making me shiver, before his mouth returned to my clit, but his eyes never left mine. He let me see everything he was thinking and feeling. I’d never felt more powerful, more beautiful, or more desired in my entire life. I came alive under his touch. My orgasm slammed into me, and I cried out his name. My eyes never left his. Even as he licked and sucked and fingered me through the waves of my orgasm and crawled up my body until his hips were cradled between my thighs.
His hard length was against me. I wasn’t even sure when he’d put a condom on, but he had. I shifted my hips. I wanted him closer. I wanted to feel him inside me. I wanted to connect with Kiernan on every possible level. “I need you, Kiernan,” I whispered.
“I’ll never get tired of hearing that from you,” he said and plunged inside me. I gasped at the feeling of fullness. He claimed my mouth. Claimed me. His hips rocked, pulling himself almost all the way out and slamming back inside me. I cried out against his lips, but he never stopped kissing me.
“You’re gorgeous, sweetness. I didn’t think I’d ever see something as stunning as you smiling at me. For me. But you coming for me just may rival it. I fucking want you so badly, Caroline.”
My nails raked down his back and he growled, slamming harder into me, lifting one of my legs higher on his hip and picking up his pace. I’d never been consumed so wholly. So completely. So devoutly. I believed every single whispered comment. I felt his need and desire.
My pussy began quivering around him, and my second orgasm was barreling down on me. Our bodies were slick with sweat, and our lips kept meeting for more kisses, never getting enough from each other. He didn’t stop telling me how much he wanted me. How beautiful I was.
In that moment, as my orgasm crashed into me like a tidal wave and he planted himself deep and came with me, I felt beautiful.
Kiernan pulled out of me and lay next to me, wrapping his strong arms around me, both of us still breathing hard as we came back down to earth. The oven’s timer was still going off, and I finally registered it. I bit my lip and giggled. “I don’t think those cookies survived.”
Kiernan laughed and kissed my neck. “Doesn’t matter, sweetness. What we just had was so much better than any cookie.”
22 Kiernan
I’d spent the past few nights in Caroline’s bed, getting lost in her body. We’d barely come up for air, and I knew the pile of work on my desk at MarxMen was piling up. Crawling out of her bed that morning, while she was still naked and wrapped in her white sheet, leaving nothing to the imagination, was almost impossible. The image of Caroline with tangled sheets wrapped around her legs, the swell of her breasts peeking from the top with hard nipples poking through the fabric, and her luscious hips and ass on display would be seared into my mind for the rest of my life. Her hair was scattered over her pillow, and an adorable sleepy smile was on her lips as she slept peacefully. I didn’t want to leave her side. I wanted to climb back into bed and stay there with her, but Maddox and Roman were waiting on me in the pre-dawn hours.
Another woman had been taken.
Roman and Maddox were sitting in the conference room when I arrived. Cups of steaming coffee were in front of them, on the gleaming black surface of the table. I strolled into the room and went straight to the coffee bar, poured some into the largest mug, and grabbed a protein bar from the selection next to the pot. I sat in the swivel chair and opened the bar. “What happened?”
Maddox grabbed the back of his neck. His suit jacket had been flung on the chair next to him. His shirt was wrinkled and his tie loosened around his neck. He had scruff along his jaw and looked like he hadn’t slept in days. “Another woman was taken. A dentist…Carrie Leonard. He took her from her office, just like the vet. We’re not sure if they’re connected, but it’s the same area and both female doctors.”
“Security cameras? Any witnesses?”
Maddox shook his head. “Security cameras were cut, including those from surrounding businesses. The parking lot where her car was parked is in the back of the office building. Seems she was the last to leave. Her car, some blood, and her purse with her phone were found in the lot.”
“Who alerted the police?” Roman asked and took a long drink of his coffee. He was flipping through the thick manilla files in front of him, scanning down each page.
“When she didn’t come home and the roommate couldn’t get in touch with her, she drove over to the office. They had plans. She saw the bloodstained purse with its contents spilled in the parking lot and called the police. Donahue and I were still at the office working on the vet’s case when the call came in. We arrived on the scene shortly after the first officers who responded.”
“Where’s Donahue?” I asked. Porter Donahue, Maddox’s partner, was usually with him when Maddox came to us for assistance on a
