Page 19 of Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter 2)
Sunshine handed him the water.
Talon drank it down fast and scowled at her. "How old is this stuff?" He checked the expiration date on the cheese and his scowl deepened. "Soy?" he said as he finally recognized the package. "You let me eat soy cheese?"
"It's good for you."
"It's nasty."
"Oh," she said, as if she were talking to a child. "You poor baby. I'm so sorry."
"No you're not."
"Not true. I am sorry I don't have anything a big he-man like you can stand."
Talon sat back and shook his head at her. He should have had Kyrian bring him a burger along with his clothes. Even so, he had thoroughly enjoyed the day with her.
Even if it did mean eating things that should be classified as toxic waste products.
Cringing, he reached for another cracker, more prepared this time for the disgusting taste of it. By sheer force of will, he downed six crackers with cheese, though they barely took the edge off his hunger.
Thank the gods he had his Pez. Grabbing Snoopy, he quickly popped three Pez cubes into his mouth to kill the taste.
"How can you eat that?" she asked. "It's nothing but flavored sugar."
"Yes, but it's good sugar."
She wrinkled her nose at him.
Talon gave her a wicked grin. "You know the best way to eat these, don't you?"
She shook her head.
He pulled Snoopy's head back and took the small square out with his fingers. He held it up to her lips. "Bite down gently on it and hold it between your teeth."
She hesitated, then obeyed.
For a full second, Talon watched her sitting there naked with the cube between her teeth. Then, he leaned forward and used his tongue to pry it loose.
Sunshine moaned at the taste of him combined with the sugar. Opening her mouth, she gave him a long, hot kiss. "Now, that was nice."
"Worth polluting your system for?"
"Umm-hmm," she breathed, running her fingertip along his jaw.
Once all the Pez were gone, she picked up the Snoopy dispenser and looked at it. "This seems so out of character for you, Mr. Tough Man. I find it hard to believe a guy who can fight off six criminals single-handedly would haul around a Peanuts Pez."
He brushed her black hair back from her shoulder and let his hand linger in the strands. "Actually, I collect the dispensers. This one is a vintage 1969 one."
"Really?"
He nodded.
She looked at it again. "Is it worth much?"
"A couple hundred dollars."
"No kidding?"
"No kidding."
"Wow. And I almost fed it to the washing machine."
He laughed at that. "I'm glad you didn't. Me and Snoopy go way back."
He took Snoopy from her hands and set it on the coffee table. When he turned back to face her, the gleam in his eye was one she'd become quite familiar with.
"Are you really sore?" he asked.
All things considered, she should be, but his touch was so gentle that she wasn't. "I'm not. You?"
"Never better."
He leaned back on the floor and pulled her across him. Sunshine straddled him and moaned at how good his steely abs felt against her.
To her amazement, he was already hard again. "You don't ever wear out, do you?"
He cupped her face in his hands and gave her a dark, serious stare. "It's you, love. Definitely you. With anyone else, I would have been curled up and sleeping hours ago."
"You mean that?"
He led her hand to his swollen shaft. "What do you think?"
"I think I should have taken more vitamins this morning."
"And I'm thinking there are still several positions we haven't tried."
Talon woke up in Sunshine's bed just as the sun set. He smiled in sleepy pleasure as he smelled the scent of turpentine and patchouli on his skin.
Sunshine.
She was still nestled in his arms, sound asleep. To his amazement, he felt his body starting to harden again.
After this afternoon, he should be sated for at least a day or two, if not for a full week.
For that matter, he shouldn't be able to move.
Yet he wanted to take her again. Right now. He wanted to feel her arms and legs wrapped around him, holding him close as he lost himself to the sensation of her flesh sliding against his.
Only Nynia had ever made him feel like this. He had been completely insatiable with her. To look at her was to burn for her.
He'd never thought to find another woman so appealing. And yet all he wanted to do was spend the rest of the night inside Sunshine. To feel her breath against his neck as he buried himself in her moist heat over and over again.
But he couldn't. He was supposed to meet Acheron at Jackson Square.
Not to mention that there were Daimons on the street ready to kill, and he had innocent people to protect.
"Talon?"
Inwardly, he cringed at the sound of her sleepy voice. He'd hoped to make a quiet exit while she slept.
How he hated messy exits.
"Evening, love," he murmured, kissing her brow.
She smiled a smile that dazzled him. "Are you leaving?"
"Yeah, I have to go meet someone."
"Okay," she said.
She got up from the bed, and wrapped a sheet around herself. "It was really great meeting you, Talon. Thanks for a wonderful day."
She left him alone then.
Talon frowned. This was normally the part where his lovers begged him to stay, at least for a little while longer. Where they told him he was the best lover they had ever known and then cried at the thought of never having him again.
But Sunshine seemed completely fine with his leaving. She didn't seem to be the tiniest bit sad.
What was this?
He scooted out of bed and left the room to find her in the kitchen, holding a rice cake between her teeth while she poured herself a cup of pink juice.
"Sunshine, are you okay?"
She took the rice cake out of her mouth and looked at him. "I'm fine."
Her face paled a degree. "Oh Lord, you're not going to get possessive or weird on me now, are you? Please tell me you're not one of those guys Trina told me about who gets a little sex from a woman and then thinks he owns her."
A little sex?
A little sex!
Talon was dumbstruck. He was used to leaving his lovers, but this had to be the easiest time he'd ever experienced, and he found it strangely disconcerting.
Unsettling.
Humbling.
Especially given the way the two of them had carried on. This had been the best marathon of sex he'd ever had. She had met his passion and stamina in a way that was unbelievable.
