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"It’s the dress and the lowed briefly in her eyes before she turned away "It should get us into the party" She offered hi black leather and too many zippers "I found this in his trunk It should fit"

He didn’t want any other eyes on her but his "Forget this Stryker We can be in Paradise in an hour Let me take you there"

"I want to" And she did, he could hear it in her voice "I think if it was just you and me, I would But we have to find these eot to do it for the right reasons To keep everyone safe"

"Very well We will talk to Stryker together If what he knows leads us to the gems, ill decide then what to do with them" He stepped closer "But when this quest is finished, Christian, I a you aith me"

"You don’t take a tresora aith you," Chris said slowly "I know, because I’ve irlfriend, or a lover, or a sygkenis"

"I am not your master, and you are not my servant," Jamys said quietly "We were friends, and ill be, but noant ive you my heart, Christian I want yours to be htened "It’ll change everything between us"

"Will it?" He touched her cheek "We have slept in the saiven pleasure to each other Are we not lovers now?"

"Don’t play withabout I’ve only got one heart, and it’s already been broken a bunch of times"

"I will never hurt you" He folded her into his arainst his neck, and then she nodded "All right"

Tall, wide gates protected the entrance to Sundown Estates, but as Jaet out and open them, Christian retracted theand pressed soot the code fro inward and she drove through to a suy"

The uniforun on his belt and a clipboard in his hand, and bent over to give them an unfriendly look "Help you, ma’am?"

"We’re here to have anonymous sex with a lot of people," Christian told hiy?"

"I’uard straightened as Jaot out of the car, and looked over the roof at hiet back in the vehicle"

"Yes, of course" He walked around the car "I e places with my lady friend She is a terrible driver" He held out his hand "Enjoy the re his hand The moment he did he went still

"You wish to tell me where Stryker is," Jauard smiled at Christian "Your lady sure is pretty"

"She is beautiful," Jaet about this conversation" So that Christian couldn’t hear, he added one last mental command When you see our car drive out of the complex, you will telephone the police and report to theuard wandered back into his shack

Expensive cars had been packed into a vacant lot beside the mock-plantation ho man dressed in for his ear canals as he gestured at a spot by the curb

Christian turned off the motor and looked at the draped s of the house "Did they have orgies back in the Dark Ages?"

"They have thee in such acts, but I have never taken part myself The Kyn prefer privacy"

"One ot out of the car

The man who answered the doorbell wore a black spandex bodysuit and a red-lined black cape, and flashed pointed canine veneers at Chris "Welcome to the Dark Side May I see your invitations?"

"We’re just here for the cookies" Chris pushed past him

When the doorman started after her, Jao hoain dress like this or work for Stryker"