trembling but audible as the statement flew out of her mouth on the wings of anxiety.
“Done.” Zach spoke aloud immediately after her agreement, grabbing her hand.
Kat’s head swam as Zach pulled her into his hard, solid body and everything faded to black.
Chapter Three
“What the fuck have I done?” Zach murmured aloud as he observed the fiery-haired woman still resting unconscious on his black silk sheets. He had to clench his fingers, digging his nails into his palms to resist the urge to sit on the side of the bed and bury his hands in that long, curly hair to feel its silky texture. Just seeing the contrast of the color against the black sheets and imagining the curls of the same shade between her thighs was making his cock as hard as diamonds.
She belongs to me.
Zach had known almost immediately that Kat was his radiant, and every possessive male instinct in his body had sprung to life, emotions he had never even known he could feel. A spark of light had ignited in his shadowy soul the moment she had opened the door. Kat was capable of lightening his soul, relieving the darkness of his demon existence. It would be ecstasy for him after two hundred years of darkness, but it would mean a sacrifice for her. Who wanted to spend eternity with a demon? Unfortunately, it didn’t stop him from wanting her more than he’d ever wanted anything in his entire existence.
Kat moaned as she started to awaken and his cock ached for release from the jeans that he had changed into after his hasty transport home. In his eagerness to remove her from danger, he had teleported them too quickly, faster than her human body could manage without falling into the black abyss of unconsciousness to protect itself from harm.
He gave up his internal battle and seated himself on the bed, waiting anxiously to see her jade-green eyes open. Her eyelids fluttered before she looked up at him, dazed and disoriented.
“Where am I?” she asked hesitantly, her voice husky and confused. Zach watched Kat slowly focus, her gaze flitting nervously around the room, finally landing on his face. “Mr. Winston? Oh, God, I was hoping that what I remembered was a nightmare,” she finished with a small groan as she sat up, rubbing her face with her palm.
A rueful smile formed on his face as he wondered if he should be offended at being remembered as part of a nightmare . Damn. I thought I was a wet dream. He had liked that errant thought when he had heard it in her mind. “It was real, Kat. You’re at my home and you need to remain here until the week we bargained for is over. You’ll then be completely under our protection.”
I’ll go with you for a week and do anything you want.
Her agreement fluttered through his mind and Zach’s gut clenched. What the hell had prompted him to suggest that asinine bargain? He could have accepted anything…but he knew the suggestion had popped forward because it was his soul and his body’s greatest desire. He’d been a selfish bastard, a demon demanding his radiant , and now they would both pay for his stupidity. He found her so incredibly attractive that he knew he’d end up spending the whole week in a constant state of arousal. What he wanted was her beneath him, moaning his name as he claimed her. In fact, he was fucking obsessed by the thought.
Kat, being under the influence of a demon’s bargain, would feel compelled to satisfy anything he wanted-to the point of pain if she didn’t heed the compulsion. Demon bargains were very literal. He’d have to block his wants and his compulsions from her, which would be pretty damn difficult because, at the moment, his demon instincts were clamoring loudly for the voluptuous woman in his bed.
Zach couldn’t leave Kat unprotected. He had already tried to contact Kristoff, but the Sentinel demon king had claimed that Zach needed to complete the bargain he had made so that Kat could remain under their protection. Kristoff had replied with a hint of