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"It’s pretty, isn’t it?" she asked "I think it was the only hit Spandau Ballet ever had"

"Spandau Ballet" He’d heard of many dance troupes, but never that one "I cannot say that I am familiar with them"

"Before our ti" Her eyes shuttered and her voice changed, growing crisp and i? Did you ask the waitress or the bartender?"

"Neither" She guarded herself ht, while asking questions better left unanswered He decided to tell her the truth and see what she would er ale on your breath"

"You couldn’t have done that," she told hi at least ten feet away from me"

"Alas, I’m cursed with a sensitive nose" He took in the scent of her on a slow, deep breath "You also smell of rain, herbs, honey, and…" He bent his head close to her mouth "Maraschino cherries Did you steal the?"

"No, he put two in the first drink he reary "That’s quite an i"

"I washed my hair with rain-scented shampoo and conditioner today," Chris said, "and I drank a cup of herbal tea with honey"

He grinned "So I was right"

"I did all that," she continued, "when I got up this o"

Robin’s se of her in his bed, her pale skin and auburn hair glowing against the dark sienna of his silk sheets, her ar her could not He would have to lay siege to the fortress she had built around her heart, and quickly, before her suspicions drove her froood one," Chris continued "Did Hutchins put you up to it?"

"I don’t know anyone naed through hiroin to distend and harden his cock while de he find so earlier lent hiht otherwise have lost in this astonishing rush of desire for her, but suddenly Robin did not trust hi with you"

"You’re not" She sounded uncertain now

Robin couldn’t think, not with the urgency of his hunger pounding inside his head He could not tolerate another ht Now He kept a suite of roo fe her up into his ar her off to the nearest elevator was the sound of her voice, asking him more questions

"Do you know a fair-haired man ears a lot of red?" She nodded toward the other side of the dance floor "There’s one over there staring at you"

Robin glanced over to see his seneschal, Will Scarlet He esture behind Chris’s back, and Will scowled but retreated into the crowd

"Pay no heed to hi at him and realized how badly his control had slipped; somehow he’d flooded the entire dance floor with his scent No wonder Will had come to see what the matter was Soon every occupant of the bar would fall under his spell

Except one, it seemed

Robin peered down at the woman in his arms to see if her pupils had dilated, but the dark color of her eyes ?"

"This is nice" She sighed "I don’t want to go ho He didn’t know if it was due to his talent or l’attrait, and he didn’t care He tugged her closer, fitting her body to his and pressing his aroused flesh against her belly She did not pull away, and indeed the htly over the ridge of his erection

Robin gritted his teeth "What if I ask you for more than a dance, love?"

"You can ask" She ehted in the their co their wiles He knew the subtle changes arousal caused in their voices and their bodies, the tantalizing signs that showed their interest in a h Chris was perhaps the most reserved hureat skill in hts and emotions, he did not doubt now that she desired hi Not even this stubborn wench, who had wanted nothing to do with hio

Fool Inside Robin’s skull, his father’s angry voice shouted across seven centuries You want her only because you cannot have her

The scent of bergaradually the other couples on the dance floor lost interest in the ended, he released Chris and stepped away fro as he didn’t touch her, his talent could not influence her decisions As soon as he left, the effects of l’attrait would rapidly dissipate

And he would never know her, because once he took the manuscript from her he would have all that he truly wanted, and that was hoould be Hoould have to be