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Her head quirks and she blinks. “I hate you, Tommy.”

My heart sinks. “Damn, Didi.”

She squeezes her eyes shut, and her hands cup my face. “But I missed you more,” she whispers.

I lean my forehead against hers, our breath mingling. “I missed you, too. So damn much.”

My heart is beating out of my chest, and she doesn’t move. Her lips are so close to mine, and they are mine if I want them because she’s not moving or squirming.

My hands find her hips, and she tenses. “Don’t,” she whispers, but she doesn’t move away.

I nuzzled her neck. “Why?”

She shoots me a blank stare. “You have a girlfriend, for one.”

Talia… Damn. I haven’t given her a thought all night.

I’m in deep, deep shit. Talia won’t be happy that I locked the door. We have a rule in this house, and Talia’s used to coming into my bed whenever it suits her.

Didi needs to leave, now. If Talia even suspects I still have feelings for her, she’s finished. Talia will force me to kill her to keep my side of the bargain I struck with the devil. The massive inheritance my father gave me last month was on the basis that he thought I killed the girl in my arms. How can I explain what Talia is to me without sounding like a total jerk?

“You should go,” I tell her. “Because if you stay in this bed with me for one second longer…”

Her hips buck and back arches in response. Teasing me. “I should go…”

Screw it.

I steal a kiss, covering her lips with mine, and pull her closer. I wanted her so damn bad, my cock’s never gotten over it. I think about that night in my car every moment of every day. It was the last time I saw her before seeing what I thought was her dead body in that well.

“Tommy…” she whispers against my lips.

When she does, I give her my best puppy-dog eyes. The ones I know make her melt—or at least, used to make her melt. “What is it, firefly?”

“Stop doing that.”

I can’t help but smile, because everything about Didi makes me smile. “Doing what?”

She sits up and frowns, her hair falling in wisps over her face. “Stop doing all the things that made me fall in love with you.”

I grab her hips and tug her close, enjoying the soft skin I appreciated last night.

Those words consume me. She loves me…

I still have a chance.

Even if it’s just for one more selfish moment, I let go of her. I don’t kiss her…just graze. “I never stopped loving you, firefly. I fell in love with you the moment I saw you.”

She shifts and peers up at me. “I’m not the same girl I used to be.”

I roll onto my back and pull her on top of me, admiring her in the dark. “I highly doubt that; you were only gone for a few months.”

She holds my gaze for a moment longer, her pupils dilating. My desire intensifies, becoming almost overwhelming. I can’t resist; I gently bite her shoulder, my teeth barely breaking the skin. It’s an instant surge of arousal. All I want is to possess her and mark her before Remy gets her.

“I killed Father Malcolm,” she whispers. “I stabbed him the same way Talia stabbed her boyfriend.”

I pull my teeth from her shoulder, and my stomach sinks. I knew this, of course…but hearing the words from her lips makes it real. Makes her deadly.

“And what happened with your mama?” I ask her.