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arm with the towel she’d
used to dry some glasses behind the bar. “You really do have a gutter mind.”
    “Takes one to know one.”
    “Yeah, well, yours is worse than mine.”
    After Brisa mixed the drinks Janey needed for one of her
orders, and Janey left to serve them, Brisa turned her gaze in Darius’
direction. He seemed to stare at her, a slight smile on his lips. The
expression made him even better-looking. She sighed. She’d have to wait and see
what happened when the bar closed.

Chapter Two
     
    Darius spent the last couple of hours that the bar remained
open slowly sipping on beer. He only had two, not wanting Brisa to think he’d
had too much to drink. Not that two, or much less six of them, would affect
him. Since becoming immortal, he’d lost the ability to become drunk. He figured
it had to do with the way his body now metabolized anything he put into it. He
could eat as much as he wanted, whatever he wanted, and remained the same as
the day he’d vowed to serve Anubis. The perks of being one of the god’s warriors.
    He drank the last swallow of beer and turned his gaze on
Brisa. It was almost closing time and she was cleaning up the bar. He still
didn’t know what had come over him, causing him to ask to walk her to her car
at the end of the night. He’d told himself repeatedly she wasn’t one he could
have anything to do with, that admiring her from afar was all he was allowed.
    But when she’d served him his beer instead of the waitress,
then introduced herself, he’d been unable to resist her. Especially when their
fingers had touched. Something had zapped through him straight to his cock,
making it strain even more against the zipper of his jeans. Then he’d smelled
the scent of her arousal and his good intentions had flown out the window.
    Seeing Brisa’s waitress friend wave to her before she headed
out the door, Darius took that as his cue to go up to the bar. He grabbed the
empty bottle from the table and stood. He was the last customer in the room.
    Darius wove his way around the tables. Once he stood in
front of the bar, he placed the bottle on top of it. “Are you just about ready
to leave?” he asked.
    She grabbed the empty beer and placed it in a case behind
her. She straightened and turned back to him. “Just about. I have to bring the
money from the register to the manager, then I can go.”
    He watched her push a couple of buttons on the till, which
caused the cash drawer to open. She took out the tray and covered it with a
piece of metal before she walked out from behind the bar and headed to the
offices at the opposite end of the room. It didn’t take her very long to come
back. He also noticed she now carried a purse.
    Brisa stopped in front of him. “All right. I can go now.”
    As they walked toward the bar’s entrance, she fished her
keys out of her purse. Once outside, as they were walking toward the parking
lot at the side of the building, Darius did his sweep of the area with his
gaze. It was late enough that there was hardly anyone else around. Neither he
nor Brisa said anything. Out of the corner of his eye he saw her look at him a
few times.
    When they reached a silver compact car, she said, “Well,
this is me.” She looked at him shyly as she played with her key ring.
    He shifted closer, crowding her against the car’s door,
forcing her to crane her neck to look up at him. Darius shifted even closer
until they were toe-to-toe. He heard her breath catch, and smelled the scent of
her growing arousal on the breeze that swirled around them.
    Even though he damned himself for being a fool, Darius
couldn’t stop himself from bending his head and brushing his lips against
Brisa’s. She was just too tempting. And when she made an almost inaudible sigh,
he had to have more of her.
    Angling his lips for a tighter fit, he claimed her mouth
fully. He increased the pressure before he swept his tongue along the crease of
her lips, seeking entrance. She opened for him