appear desperate and pathetic.
How the hell had Sterling pulled it off? Caleigh didn’t seem like the kind of girl who would go for someone as quiet and down-to-earth as Sterling, Nephilim powers or not. There was fire in her dark eyes and her sultry walk. She craved adventure and raw sex. He knew it as sure as he knew he could give her both like none of the others could.
The look she’d given him yesterday when he’d suggested they get better acquainted left no doubt she’d known exactly what he meant, and was more than willing to play. Lust had rolled off her in waves. He’d barely had to use his powers on her. She’d wanted him from the moment their eyes had first met.
So what the hell had gone wrong?
In the twenty-two years since they’d started this resort, Hugh had never been turned down—not once. In fact, back in the days when they used to keep count of the number of guests they seduced, Hugh out-performed all the others combined. What the hell had Sterling said or done that had convinced Caleigh to fuck him?
Hugh tossed the cigarette butt over the railing, not giving a shit that Zach or Emmett would find it and ream his ass over it. Fuck them and their unrelenting passion for insisting they all keep this place pristine and classy. And fuck Sterling for bagging Caleigh first. Hugh had claimed her the minute he walked into the nightclub to hear her audition. Sterling should have known that.
He lit another cigarette then extinguished it on the concrete floor. Smoking wasn’t going to solve this. He’d seduce Caleigh as well. That would show Sterling and the others a thing or two, especially when she didn’t crawl back into Sterling’s bed again. And he wouldn’t listen to bullshit from any of them about staff being off limits. That asswipe Sterling had dared to tell him to knock it off when he’d talked about Caleigh after her audition, and then he’d turned around and fucked her anyway!
Well, two could play that game.
* * * *
Sterling rolled over and propped himself up on one elbow, just to watch Caleigh sleep. It had seemed so normal and right to stand on the roof with her last evening and talk about stars and her family. He hadn’t expected her to be so open and friendly. He’d known she was from a wealthy family, and he’d assumed she would be like so many of their rich guests—cold and aloof. They came here with one thing in mind, and he and the other owners delivered.
But Caleigh wasn’t a guest, so perhaps that was the reason she hadn’t behaved like all the other rich bitches? No, Sterling didn’t believe that. Just listening to her talk about her place in the pecking order of her family told him all he needed to know about her. She talked a good game and put on a convincing act, but deep inside she didn’t feel worthy in the eyes of her family. It was that vulnerability she’d shown him that melted his earlier resolve not to touch her.
When she’d displayed so much trust that she admitted she didn’t like sharing the spotlight, he hadn’t been able to resist her charms any longer. He’d known that about her the moment she took the stage for her audition and asked to sing acapella. The look that had settled over her face was confident, knowing. But to hear her voice it aloud had caused something inside to shift. Sterling felt a connection to Caleigh that he hadn’t questioned or wanted to understand. He’d only known he had to have her, right then and there.
She opened her eyes and blinked a few times, frowning, as if she wasn’t quite sure where she was. Then a bright smile graced her beautiful face and she rolled to the side, gazing into his eyes.
“Well, good morning, Sterling. Is the sun up yet?”
“Barely.”
“Good. Then we don’t have to get out of bed yet.”
“You don’t have rehearsal today so we don’t have to get out of bed until this evening, when you perform. It’ll be your first gig here. Are you nervous?”
She leaned over and kissed