“What?” I breathed in his breath and just touched the edge of his lips. I knew he was talking about something, but just exactly what the subject was had escaped me. All I could think about was what an amazing effect just being near him had on me. I’d never felt so aroused in my life. “What don’t you like?” “I can’t remember,” he said, his lips parting just a little to swoop down on mine. “Walker, they’re calling for the first teams to—Oh, sorry.” Walker leaped backward at the sound of Butcher’s voice, careened into Cassie, and swore mightily as she lashed out with her back foot. I stood looking at those beautiful lips of his, my entire body one unending ache of unfulfilled desire, tears pricking again behind my eyes because I wanted to wail at what might have been if Butcher had interr

