Secret Unleashed: Secret McQueen, Book 6 (39 page)

My heart melted. His quiet ways had won me. Why had we not met when our lives were our own? Why find one another now, when the future loomed so uncertain? Why torment both of us?

Never would I have imagined he was capable of such tenderness. The way he poked fun at a situation he had to find as strange as I did endeared him to me. Once, he said that I understood force. Perhaps that explained why these tender moods confused me.

“I’m no healer, but I have often observed Mana at her work.” I straddled his lap. Let him tug me flush against him. His heart thumped hard beneath my hand. “Let me see if I can’t cure you.”

Breathing him in, I feathered my lips over his jaw, down his neck, where I scraped my teeth.

Murdoch inhaled harshly and held his breath. I delighted in swirling my tongue across his skin while smoothing my hands over his broad shoulders and lower, past his thick arms, to link hands.

“I don’t mean to question your credentials…” he hissed when I nipped his ear, “…but is the cure supposed to hurt worse than the condition it treats?” He gripped my wrist and held it steady.

“Your heart does seem overtaxed.” I feigned regret. “Perhaps I should try curing you later.”

“I want it now.” He turned his mouth against the inside of my wrist and pressed a kiss there.

Chills swept down my arms. “You want what, exactly?”

He didn’t hesitate. “You.”

Sliding his hands through my hair, he bent me to him. Impatient for the arrival of my mouth, his met mine halfway. His lips were firm, his tongue demanding as he coaxed my mouth open to him. Murdoch’s taste was as complex as the rest of him. He filled my senses, and I moaned at it.

Too soon he turned his face aside, allowing me to taste my mark upon him.

“We can’t do this.” He was breathless. “Not while you belong to someone else.”

Part of me knew he was wrong. I no longer belonged to Hishima in heart or in body. The other part felt Murdoch hard between my thighs and didn’t care who was right.

Before I became this shadow of my former self, I had enjoyed the pleasure found in the male form. I had always been tame in my tastes, but I wondered, what might this wilder Kaidi crave?

He gripped my hips, held me down as his hips rolled to meet mine.

“If we don’t leave now,” he said, out of breath, “we won’t be leaving any time soon.”

Tempted as I was to force his hand, he was right. With supreme effort, I mustered resolve. “We will finish this. Later.”

“First we find the harbinger.” His eyes gleamed. “Then we free you from your betrothal.”

“And if we fail?”

He held my face between his palms, and the kiss he gave me set my heart afire.

“If you are the prize,” he said softly, “fear not that I will win you.”

Secret Unleashed

Sierra Dean

The darkest secrets are the hardest to unearth.

Secret McQueen, Book 6

After her last mission tested the limits of her humanity and took her out of this world, Secret’s friends, determined to keep her safe from her old nemesis Alexandre Peyton, keep ushering her from one babysitter to the next.

Couch surfing would be a lot more fun if Alexandre would let up on her long enough to allow her to get in some alone time with her lovers. Including Holden, her self-appointed shadow.

As if living out of coffin isn’t bad enough, Secret literally brings down the house while hunting a rogue, causing the council to exile her from New York—for her own safety, of course.

With her list of people to trust getting shorter and shorter, Secret ends up embroiled in a mystery to find a vampire warden gone AWOL and a missing artifact. Things go from bad to worse when she falls into the hands of a man who will prove that humans can be the worst monsters of them all.

Warning: Contains a cross-country journey, an unexpected family reunion, heated lovers’ embraces and a hell of a lot of trouble.

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