(Note: I have been attempting to copy her style but alas I am not Sherrilyn Kenyon and I am too much of a coward so I cannot bring myself to write sex scenes in the way she does lol sorry. I did try though.)

Sera was breathless not because of the dance but of the look on Dev's face, it was intense and heated, things she had never seen on his face before. She felt it the minute their eyes had locked in the dance, his eyes however lightened his face; they were ablaze with humour.

"You better run, Remi's out for blood," he warned Aimee, he cleared his throat and looked pointedly at her top, Aimee blushed deeply as she tugged down her beer soaked shirt and run off behind the bar but not before giving Sera a tight hug.

Sera stared up at Dev, despite what she had promised herself about no attachments she had wanted him to see her dance, wanted to see that desire burning in his gaze. She grabbed his arm to steady herself as the crowd jostled them together; the multitude of people has not just come back but tripled; Sera laughed.

"We better get out the way, I can hear the walls creaking!"

Dev laughed and picked her up tossing her over his shoulder, he delighted in her squeal of laughter. He ran with her through the kitchen oblivious to the appalled stares of the kitchen staff and into the Peltier house, Dev didn't put her down until she was in his room in front of his bed. Her eyes were alight with laughter and desire, Dev cupped her face tenderly in his palms before kissing her gently; it made her heart clench. It was hard to believe a man or bear this powerful could ever be so tender and caring with a woman. It made her lips tremble; Sera ducked her head so Dev would not see her eyes, she didn't want to embarrass herself, to let him see what this was meaning to her.

For the first time in over a year, she was letting herself feel, she was being seen and wanted; the knowledge almost brought tears to her eyes. Almost.

Dev felt her sadness mixed with relief, with happiness and desire; and it made his own heart ache in response. He had thought to take her quickly, with pleasure and passion that any lover worth his salt could produce; he hadn't expected the depth of emotion he now felt. The need to see her smile with happiness, her eyes lazy and sated, he moved his lips slowly over her cheek to brush them across her ear.

"Don't be afraid, Sera," he whispered gently, "I wouldn't hurt you for the world."

Sera bit her lower lip, this night was pivotal and it could prove disastrous in many ways, for one thing they could end up mated to one another. Yet with that warning ringing in her mind Sera still moved forward in to his embrace, reaching up and brushing her fingers through his beautiful hair. Dev bit back a groan as her fingers in his hair created a pleasurable shiver all over his body, he pressed her closer to the hardness of his body, letting her soft curves of her feminine body sooth him, her body so unlike his own, so small in comparison was wreaking havoc with his hormones but more importantly with his heart. Sera almost gasped when evidence of Dev's arousal pressed against her, she had never wanted any man more then he and though she pushed the thought away from her mind, she wanted to be more to him then just some fun and a willing body.

Dev smoothed back the hair from her face and trailed his hands to her breasts, he felt Sera's shiver and was pleased by his affect on her, one by one he gently slipped the buttons free of the holes and proceeded to undress her. His movements were slow and deliberate, caressing and kissing every bit of flesh he uncovered, pushing her back until the back of her legs hit the edge of the bed and she tumbled on it, Dev smiled into her stomach as he laved her naval. He could feel her irritation, her arousal and her edginess. Every time she reached for him, to smooth those devastating hands over his body he evaded her touch.

"I want to touch you!" Sera grumbled, irritation and desire warred within her as Dev lapped at the swell of her breast. Dev gave a low, gruff laugh and stood up, Sera leaned up on her forearms and it wasn't until then that she realised with a flush of embarrassment that she was totally naked while he was still fully clothed. Dev pulled his tight black T-shirt over his head revealing a washboard stomach that many women would kill to nibble at, then he doffed his jeans and stood before her, the epitome of masculinity, of a bear in his prime, in the midst of mating heat. A feral flicker behind Dev's eyes made Sera's mouth go dry, in reality it should have scared her, seeing the animal in him so close to the surface but it didn't, in fact it excited her.

Dev clamped down hard on the bear in him that was roaring for a taste of Sera, her kiss had ignited something, a thirst that could not be quenched, not until he had taken her. But he wanted it to last, he wanted a long night not a fleeting moment of ecstasy. He could not remember ever wanting a woman with this kind of passion and ferocity in all the long years of his life, nor could he ever remember wanting to please someone so much, no longer was it about taking. About feeding a hunger, a need. For once in his life it was about giving, sharing … the physical ache in his body was now matching the one in his chest as he looked at Sera stretched out before him, as if she sensed an uncertainty in him which Dev had never before experienced she held out her arms to him. It humbled and shocked him, it melted his heart and tightened something in his stomach, this was a night of all new things for him and for her.

Dev went into her hold, careful not to put all his weight on her fragile bones; because she was so fragile, so soft and sweet. He kissed her softly, tenderly, all the while grinding his teeth against the sensation of her breasts pressed tightly to his chest, teasing the small fair hairs there. Fighting against the urge to plunge into her and take her, after testing her readiness, Dev rolled over so she was straddling him; he smiled up at her boyishly. Sera caressed his stubbly cheek with reverent fingers and she heard Dev's beautiful voice,

"dance for me now, Cher," before the earth shifted beneath her and he took her to the stars.