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"Remind me" I hit the floor with a whu Kristoff had assured me would break my fall Even with that, it took"Remind rabbed ainst the war in his delicious scent

"You wanted to use a portal" Kristoff&039;s voice ruh of sheer happiness and ed to take a step back from him, just in ti like a cat as it, too, hit the floor

"Yeah, I know I thought it would be quicker and easier to get out of Gered my mind Ow" I rubbed my butt as I eyed the body on the floor next to us

"Have your light ready," Kristoff warned as he released rab Mattias by the back of his collar

I nodded, gathering up another s through a portal could well re on Mattias "Just one more reason to take a plane"

Mattias shook his head for auntil his eyes focused on me "Wife!" he said

That was all I needed to hear I tossed the light at his head, watching with some a into nothing

The frown that Mattias had donned upon seeing rin "Pia-pooh!"

"Ugh I had hoped he had forgotten that Mattias, we&039;re in Iceland I want you to do exactly as Kristoff says"

"I love Iceland!" he cried, delighted "I love Pia! I love Kristoff!"

"If he tries to hug et to finish his threat before Mattias, as as big as Kristoff, shouted, "Hug ti

"You just had to say the word, didn&039;t you?" I said, extricating rip "Mattias, remember what I said before about inappropriate shows of affection?"

Mattias released Kristoff, a pensive look on his face "I&039;m not to kiss you anymore because Kristoff doesn&039;t like it"

"That&039;s right And?" I pro because it makes you squirm"

Kristoff eyed me

"No," I said hastily "You can&039;t lick hed "I can&039;t lick sweet, adorable Pia because it&039;s wrong How about him?" He pointed at Kristoff

"He can lick me if he wants But that&039;s neither here nor there"

"Can I lick her?"

I looked over to my shoulder to where an employee of the portal company we&039;d used to transport ourselves fro by the expression on her face, I don&039;t think she&039;d enjoy that, no"

"I want to lick so his aret you an ice-creaht noe have to get going before certain vada and Raymond"

"They should follow them to Rome before they realize we aren&039;t with them," Kristoff said as a form of reassurance as we exited the tiny office that was the portal service in Reykjavik "You can stop worrying, Pia I knowto underesti for us in Frankfurt We barely made that train to Berlin You&039;re sure he didn&039;t read your ?"

"I&039;m sure We do not have a sympathetic connection like that"

"Hmm How&039;s your nose?"

Kristoff&039;s shoulder twitched I took his hand, enjoying once again the feeling of his fingers twining through mine "I told you it wasn&039;t broken Andreas wasn&039;t trying to hurtbehind us on the narrow sidewalk, nudged the back of nored him "I don&039;t care I think that was pretty underhanded of him to sock you on the nose just because I roasted his toes a bit"

Mattias nudgedan unhappy, lost-puppy noise Exasperated, I stopped

He held out his hand

"Oh, for God&039;s Fine" I took his hand as well He beamed at me "Just so you know, I feel like I&039; escorted across the road"

Kristoff, who had been glaring across me to Mattias, donned a familiar martyred expression "I can&039;t decide if I would rather have him as he nor constant petting"

"Hugs?" Mattias asked

"No!" I said quickly, ignoring the looks ere getting as we strolled through town to a nearby car rental agency "Behave yourself, or you&039;ll have to take another long nap like you did on the plane"

"I will behave," he promised solemnly

Are you absolutely certain the reapers want him back? Kristoff asked as we entered the car rental place We could just drop him off somewhere and make our escape

Kristoff! We can&039;t do that! He&039;s like a child in this state, very suggestible and clueless Anyone could take advantage of hi aware of it They could even make him throw himself off the top of one of the fjords

Only if we&039;re very lucky

I gave hilare He actually s sensation that left ed for a car

"Ulfur first," I told him once he had possession of the keys

"Reaper first, then your spirit"

"Ulfur has been left alone, and is probably bored out of histhe reaper could be alerted at any moment that we are in the vicinity"

I ht, but if Ulfur yells atyou"

Fifteenout of Reykjavik to a town about half an hour ahere the Brotherhood folk had said Kristjana was being held I looked up from the GPS unit and over to the et to know him better

How come you know terms like "blow job"? "Turn left at the next cross street, then a right onto the highway"

Kristoff shot aze to the road Why shouldn&039;t I knohat a blow job is?

"Pia, Pia, Pia," Mattias said happily frohed "Nap time, Mattias! You&039;re tired Very tired Go to sleep until I wake you up"

"All right I will sleep You akethe Renaissance, weren&039;t you? "I&039; that word in front of you No, you do not need a good-night smooch Go to sleep"

Yes Kristoff smiledThat doesn&039;t mean I hadn&039;t had a blow job before Idown a nasty sting of jealousy at the thought of hi so pleasured by any other woman

The smile deepened

But it&039;s an awfullyabout I mean, didn&039;t you have so euphemistic and romantic?

A soft "Pia, Pia, Pia," drifted up frorip of the , lay with his eyes closed I felt athe spell on hi away the concern

Well, there was one phrase I recall being used

Oh, good What was it?

The whore&039;s kiss

I shot hiento spend the rest of our lives together, I thought it would be nice if we got to know each other better I&039;ine the sorts of things you must have seen

All I remember is death, disease, and lots of fleas

I sat back in runtled

Oh, and one exceptionally talented prostitute in Ro muscle control You would not believe what she could do with a hard-boiled egg

You know, I&039;uess

Silence filled the car as we drove through the night It was starting to get dark now in Iceland during the nights, the endless sun of su its journey into early fall I looked out into the darkness, wondering at how ed since I had first been here

What is the hts"?

Oh, come, now-you may be ih to pick up phrases like "blow job" I couldn&039;t help but suarantee you that every male, no matter what form he takes, knows every colloquial phrase for oral sex Some of us, however, have little to do with the lance "That must make it a bit difficult Surely you had to interact with humans in order to eat"

"I seldos too much"

My heart, as usual, contracted at the oblique reference to his deceased love

"When I did, I tried to keep the contact at a minimum It was better for everyone&039;s sake"

"Did you er did you you know have sex with everyone you drank from?" I asked, driven by a horrible spurt of jealousy I badly wanted to pretend wasn&039;t there

His lips softened into a slight curve "I told you once before that feeding, to a Dark One, is an intimate act that sometimes involves other aspects of intimacy It is seldoroundto cope with my unreasonable need to deiven in to that particular impulse

You&039;re jealous, he said with a hint of surprise

Shut up, Iout of theat the blacknessI&039;ve had boyfriends, too, you know

I know

Startled, I looked at hiin

My mouth dropped open in horror "You talked to Alec about ht it up," he answered, negotiating an exit into the town, consulting the GPS unit briefly before taking the appropriate turn

"You talked about me?" Heat washed upward from my chest I felt perilously close to tears or a nervous breakdown I just couldn&039;t decide which

"He told lanced at htly as we cahtclub "I didn&039;t ask for specifics, if that&039;s what you&039;re worried about"

I caught the echo in his mind "You didn&039;t have to, did you? He told you everything Everything! Oh,off?"

"He said you were veryto shove thoughts back out of the way so I couldn&039;t pick through thee that made my skin burn "Oh, my God! He told you he didn&039;t that we didn&039;t Oh,too h I do not go into specifics as he does"

"Oh, really? And did you tell hiue before I could stop retted thehtened He kept his gaze grih the to think of as Angelica pain lanced my chest Of course he didn&039;t talk to Alec about her She was special She was the woman he&039;d chosen to spend his life with, not one who had been thrust on him by circumstances and fate

Unreasonable and unwanted tears pricked the back of my eyes "Did you tell hilance "Would it make you feel any better to knoas pleased when he toldother than oral sex with you?"

"You were?" I asked, looking at hihtly chagrined expression on his face "I&039;ve been told in the past that I can be overly possessive where women are concerned You had expressed your preference for Alec, and I accepted that, but I could not help but be pleased that he did not possess you completely"

I didn&039;t quite knohat to say to that, other than to acknowledge my own little kernel of happiness that he, too, could be jealous "Possessive, hmm?"

His lips turned doard, his eyes steadfastly on the street before us "It is not unknown for Dark Ones"

"Given what I&039;ve seen," I said, thinking of the vampires I&039;d met, "I&039;d say that is a fair statement I have to admit that I kind of like it"

One of his lovely sable eyebrows rose "I thought women did not like possessiveness"

"A little of it can be nice," I said with a little smile to myself "Too much is obnoxious, but a little Itas he pulled into a parking lot next to what looked like a govern, but allowedwithin hi his with a little hum of excite off?" I asked as we sat together in the warm, intimate darkness of the car