Security for having cabana sex.”
“Won’t happen.” She looked smug, as she looped her
arm through his.
“Why? You gonna smile and charm your way out of a
lecture.” He grinned since he so badly wanted to point out the
sated sleepy look on her face would be more than enough proof they
weren’t out here stargazing. They slipped through the cabana’s
opening and stood outside, breathing in the night air sharp with
the scent of the sea.
“Sometimes people don’t notice me.” Raven slid her
hand down to curl her fingers through his.
“Baby, there is no way people wouldn’t notice you.”
He allowed her to take the lead.
She lifted her head, listening as two male voices
sounded closer. She looked back at the cabana with a faint hint of
sorrow on her face as if she was mentally recording an important
memory. “No, really, you’ll see.” She tugged on his hand.
As they retraced their steps at the water’s edge
where the gentle swells rolled up to cover their bare feet, they
soon saw the faint outline of two men walking in their direction
along the upper part of the beach.
“Just watch,” she whispered.
Brady was ready for at least an inquiry if they were
staying at the resort and a request for proof, but the two men
didn’t look their way. They continued talking in low voices and
walked past them as if they didn’t exist.
He knew he was good at slipping unnoticed in and out
of dangerous situations, but there was no way he could have walked
past someone the way they just had and not be acknowledged even if
it was nothing more than a nod of the head. He and Raven might as
well have been invisible for all the notice they were given.
“I get it. You’ve got super powers,” he teased.
Considering her family tree, he was positive she had way more than
super powers, but since he wasn’t supposed to know exactly what she
was, he had to play it cool.
“If you don’t want someone to notice you, they
won’t,” she pointed out.
”As a soldier aren’t there times where you need to
hide from the enemy?”
“I don’t quite think of hotel Security as the enemy,
but yeah, there’s been few times.” Give or take several thousand.
“So what do you do when you hide from Security?” he whispered in
her ear, punctuating the words with a quick flick of the tongue.
She shivered under his caress.
“Take more than five items into a store dressing
room, have more than fifteen items in my shopping cart at the
grocery store. It’s the little things. “ She bumped her shoulder
against him.
“Cutting in front of someone in line?”
“Oh no! That would be just rude!” She released the
soft throaty giggle that shot a line of heat along his spine. He’d
always thought giggling women were annoying. Raven was proving to
be the exception. But then, Raven was proving the exception to a
lot of things.
Guilt wormed its way through him. He didn’t like that
he had to lie to her when in many ways she’d been so open with him.
He hadn’t expected her to confess that her stepbrother was a dark
lord Below, but over dinner he still felt he got to know her pretty
well. While she was sexy as hell, she didn’t flaunt it and her
conversation didn’t center on her hair, nails, clothes or what she
did that day. Considering he’d been on many dates with women like
that, no wonder he’d rather go overseas for a good battle than have
dinner with a woman.
Raven was proving to be the exception all the way
around. So much so, he even considered returning Shar’s very nice
fee since the head demon was already paying for his stay at the
resort. He quickly banished that thought. A man had to make a
living and if it involved spending time with a beautiful woman, who
was he to turn it down?
They made their way past the reception area and to
the elevator with smiles that refused to quit.
“What floor?” Brady asked as a matter of courtesy
even thought he already knew exactly where her room was.
“Fourteen.” She issued