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He took her hand again, lifted it, and brushed a kiss across her knuckles "What esture seemed to amuse rather than impress her "So tell me before I leave"
Robin wondered how she would react if she knew that he’d deliberately sent the brunette call girl over to distract the last inebriated male who had pestered her at the bar, or that he’d cleared everyone from the tables around him to create an oasis of cal her to hi"--he turned her hand and touched his lips briefly to the thin blue veins on the inside of her wrist--"that I cahtly rounded her cognac-colored eyes, revealing the glints of fawn and gold in her dark irises Aas we’ve never met, I doubt that"
"In life, perhaps not" He adht cast by the mirrored ball over the strands of fiery hair she’d tamed into a smooth twist at the back of her head "There are other worlds Other lives"
She studied him just as closely in return "I don’t believe in quantum theory, past lives, or reincarnation"
"Nor do I" Slipping into the old way of speaking was dangerous, but he didn’t care "Itas you will stay"
"I don’t know you," she replied, her tone ree ave one end of her scarf a playful tug "Tell ers"
"It’s Chris" Her head turned as theon the dance floor e at hio into work early tomorrow"
As she made her excuse, Robin could hear a wistful note in her voice, and saw a glimmer of envy in her eyes as she watched the other ht not want him, but she wanted to dance
"Then we shall not waste another h hers "Stay for this song, Chris Stay and dance with arded him for the space of ten heartbeats before she turned and led him toward the crowded dance floor
Robin enjoyed many of the freedoms of this modern era, but none so much as the dances that permitted a ave her consent During his human lifetime, such scandalous contact would have resulted in the instant ruination of the woman’s reputation and an immediate end to her partner’s bachelor status, if the woman’s father didn’t demand other,with this mortal was completely safe As his seneschal so often reminded him, he was Robin of Locksley, i personally involved with a hu in the business of the ered hi from the Realone to the Kyn’s annual tournaathered to spend a feeeks away fro es and celebrations that had long ago been their only foredies had come back to haunt him The unhealed wounds of the past had nearly cost him his friendship with Aedan mac Byrne, suzerain of the Realled with the ugly plots, brutal confrontations and atteedy of Robin’s past and his darkest secret No one but Dr Alexandra Keller, the sygkenis of the Auessed why Robin so loved Jayr, the only child of his long-lost lady, Marian, who had died in childbirth God willing, no one else ever would discover that Robin was Jayr’s father
Once on the dance floor, Robin guided Chris around to face hi their entwined fingers to hold her hand over his heart She was tall for a woman; if she moved two steps closer she could tickle his mouth with her curly red eyelashes or kiss the hollow of his throat
Chris did neither of those things, but stepped back until several inches separated their bodies
Undaunted, Robin spread his free hand over the gentle curve of the small of her back, where a delicious amount of body heat permeated the thin ers
"You feel very war his head so that his breath stirred the set her alone with him, he could question her about the manuscript, discover where it was, and learn what sort of security the gallery would be using to guard it "Are you uncoainst him; nor did she strain away as she followed his lead She maintained that respectable distance between them as she danced She did not look up at hiray-haired singer as he crooned the words to the gentle tune