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Teddy woke up war hiathered below his feet where he&039;d kicked the up However, he didn&039;t recognize the roo pale blue walls sis were all wrong The two dressers and bedside tables were all a light wood, the ere covered by ice-blue blinds instead of his own, darker blue drapes, and the bed he was in was king-size and damned comfortable

He also wasn&039;t alone in the bed, Teddy noted, peering at the woe T-shirt she&039;d been wearing in their shared dream Even as he peered at her, sheher array hair sprouting out of it, he realized and lifted his head to look himself over His chest ide, his pecs defined, his stoained over the last couple of years as age crept up on hiht over ht ray hair on his chest, as well as on his ar one out fros were also as taut and sculpted, as they&039;d been when he was younger

And he wasn&039;t feeling a single ache or pain Normally, he woke up to a stiffness that settled in while he slept, and it took a bit of ti around for that to pass He wasn&039;t suffering it now though In fact, he felt da stiffy, too Hadn&039;t had one of those in a while, he thought with a grin

That hen Teddy realized he was dreaht He was probably still slouched in the kitchen chair with Katricia working over hi to save his life It couldn&039;t be a shared drea the same T-shirt, he&039;d still been his sixty-four-year-old self, not the strong, healthy speci his own dream now

Either that or he was dead and this was heaven, Teddy supposed He wouldn&039;t have thought he could have Katricia with hiuessed ot what you wanted in heaven, and if so, this would be it Katricia and a bed Teddy was pretty sure that was definitely heaven for hio, he would have said that heaven to hih the woods with Elvi, like they used to do as teenagers What a difference a day could lanced down to Katricia as shehis under the sheet Her bare leg against his bare leg, he noted with interest He wasn&039;t the only one interested in this fact Little Teddy showed his own fascination by perking up as if trying to look around under the sheet

Teddy lowered the hand that had been resting up by his head and ran it lightly over Katricia&039;s back on top of the T-shirt The light touch h and start to roll into it, and he quickly lifted his arainst the bed as she rolled onto her back When she then lay still, he eased onto his side and peered at her She looked sweet and innocent in her sleep, with none of the wicked humor that often peeked out of her expression when she was teasing him He actually kind of htiness in her, the sexy saze raked his body, the unapologetic glee in her expression as she hit him with a snowball or trounced him in cards The uninhibited pleasure she had expressed over the simple fare they&039;d had to eat, and the pleasure they&039;d briefly experienced in their shared drea Teddy out in him, the man who enjoyed life and wasn&039;t so burdened doith responsibilities He&039;d grown cynical after years of being a cop, but she ood place She ainwhich was pretty ironic, since he was probably dead, he supposed But it was hard to care much about that when he was here with her Whether it was a dream or heaven, he didn&039;t care He was ready to enjoy it

S them both fros were revealed He then kicked it off hiazed over her Teddy had noted before that she had an athlete&039;s body, and now found hi his hand over the top of her near leg, starting just above the knee and running it up to the hehs

Katricia breathed out a little sigh and shifted onto her side again, facing hi

She could have been a runner, he thought,that was now closest to the bed and shifting it to rest on her upper leg He slid it upward to her hip, pushing the T-shirt ahead of it, and his gaze skated over every inch of skin revealed as he continued to push the light cloth upward It was large and loose, and he&039;d pushed the cloth up to the underside of her breast before sheover her to claiers pushed the cotton over the mound He drew it between his lips and suckled at it, his eyes widening incredulously as the action sent pleasure tingling through his own body It raze it with his teeth, which just intensified the sensations running through hi a sleepyher nipple, he lifted his head to peer at her, but she was still asleep Herwas shallow Watching her face, he slid his hand to her breast, covered it, and gently squeezed, then squeezed again before catching the nipple between thuhtly

Katriciaon the pillow, and Teddy had to bite his lip to keep fro her pleasure, he realized Like a life mate was supposed to be able to do This had to be heaven, he decided and lowered his head to her other breast and began to minister to it with his mouth as his hand released her first breast and slid down across her stos She arm and already wet He wasn&039;t surprised; little Teddy was certainly excited by the sensations coursing through the at attention, but straightened even ers over Katricia&039;s dah the them further

Teddy had been with a lot of woenerous lover, but daood he was It was no damned wonder he&039;d never wanted for feh his head as he let hishis way froether and simply allowed himself to feel and experience as his an to lick its way down her sto little panting squeaks of sound Her body was burning up fros For oneof the bedrooe as wave after wave of passion poured over her, but then she recalled how she&039;d got there and why and concern pushed enough of the passion aside to allow her to look for Teddy

She supposed she shouldn&039;t have been surprised to find his head buried between her legs, causing the fire eating her alive; nothing and no one else had made her burn like he did But Katricia was surprised She&039;d sat up with hih the turn, feeding hih it, terrified through e, the injury he&039;d sustained, and the amount of blood he&039;d lost he wouldn&039;t survive When the worst of it was over and he still lived, Katricia had finally allowed herself to sleep, but she&039;d climbed into bed next to him to be sure he didn&039;t wake up alone and confused The last thing she&039;d expected was to find hi as Teddy pushed a finger up into her even as he continued hat he was doing The pleasure that rolled through her then was so overwhel It was toohis hair and tugging almost viciously in her desperation to make him stop She couldn&039;t catch her breath and felt like she was drowning in the pleasure he was causing It was sla into her brain in repeated, pitiless waves, and then he responded to her tugging, stopped what he was doing, and rose up,up her body But her respite was short-lived, because then he was sliding into her even as his lips clairoaned into histime since anyone had been inside her body and he felt so das wrapped around his shoulders and hips, and she held on for dear life as he thrust into her If she was going to drown, at least she wouldn&039;t go alone, Katricia thought, clinging to hi she had, even her lips Her mouth was almost suctioned to his until he broke their kiss and ood"

Katriciaat it as his body pounded into hers When she felt his teeth sink into her neck, her eyes blinked open with surprise, and then she screah her, a tsuna it under to the murky depths

Katricia woke up so over a blood bag at Justin Bricker&039;s s in her mouth, she half sat up, and then paused to catch the sheet that started to slip off of her naked body Glancing around, she saw Teddy lying on his back next to her, with Anders holding a bag to his mouth as well He was still unconscious

"You let him bite you"

Katricia turned to peer at Bricker at that comment He actually tsked as he said it, and she scowled at hi She hadn&039;t let Teddy bite her, he&039;d caught her by surprise Not that she&039;d minded It had beenwell

"Well, indeed," Bricker said dryly, obviously reading her mind "But he&039;s new to this and doesn&039;t knohen to stop biting You&039;ll have to explain that it&039;s not good to bite until his turn is done And then when he does bite, it should be more of a love bite than an actual bite-and-suck Cripes, he must have taken a quart from you before he lost consciousness You were both dead to the world e checked on you and this is the third bag of blood I&039;ve given you"

Katricia frowned at this news, and then, realizing the bag was eain, asking, "Is he all right?"

"He&039;ll be fine He just needs a couple ly, handing her another bag "He&039;s still turning, and taking in your nanos when he bit youWell, you know that&039;s not good"

Katricia nodded and slapped the bag of blood to her fangs Every immortal had a certain number of nanos in their body, the perfect amount to keep thes the nanos did on entering a new host: they assessed the situation and began to use up blood to reproduce, while at the saht have, and then they started right into the es It was a painful process, and she&039;d had to watch Teddy writhe and screah the worst of it

But Teddy wasn&039;t fully through the turn yet There were still changes to be made in his body and it would continue for several days or even weeks During that tiesand adding to that burden wasn&039;t good That hat Teddy had done by biting her He&039;d taken her nanos into his body Suddenly infusing himself with more of them had forced his own nanos to work extra hard to process the extra blood In theup blood as well This wasn&039;t a good thing for any immortal, really, but it was very bad for a new turn still in the process

As for her, he&039;d definitely taken an unhealthy as to even regain consciousness She would have to explain these things to hiain while they were alone It wouldn&039;t have killed them, but it would have left the and found them Fortunately, Bricker and Anders were still here to assist thelanced to Anders at that announce froaze slid over Teddy&039;s face, noting that his eyelids were twitching as if his eyes wereunder the you want before we retire?" Bricker asked, taking her e from her when she removed it from her teeth

Katricia shook her head and forced her eyes away from Teddy to offer the two men a smile as they h"

Bricker nodded and turned to lead the way to the door, saying, "We&039;ll leave the cooler here for now in case you need it again We&039;ll check with you before we leave at sunset"

Katricia nodded, but her eyes had already returned to Teddy and she heard rather than saw the twohat brought Teddy&039;s eyes open He peered at her blankly for a lanced around the roo

"For aup beside her

"Forgot what?" Katricia asked uncertainly as he leaned to press a kiss to her shoulder

"That I was dead," hehis lips to her ear

"Dead?" she asked, pulling back with surprise

"M to continue

"But Teddy, you&039;re not dead," Katricia said on a half-breathless laugh

"Yes I a his head to claim her lips now

For a minute, Katricia siues in your an to roam over her body, she forced herself to break their kiss and pull back Her voice firm, she said, "Teddy, you&039;re not dead This isn&039;t heaven I- Why would you think this was heaven?" she interrupted herself to ask suddenly

"You,on her ear again

"You, me, and a bed, and not you and Elvi?" she asked with surprise

Teddy pulled back to peer at her with amusement "Do you see Elvi here? We didn&039;t have that kind of relationship She was" He paused for a aze sliding to her as he said, "Hey, this is et to ruin it with talk?"

"Because it isn&039;t heaven," Katricia said fir What was Elvi to you?"

He scowled at the question, his silver-gray eyes flashing with irritation, and then sighed and dropped back in the bed "Fine Elvi waswell she was kind of the ideal woood ood," Teddy finished helplessly, and then griuess I&039;m the one who&039;s dead"

"You&039;re not dead," Katricia repeated, but her words were distracted, her thoughts on what he&039;d just said "So, she was good Kind of like a Madonna figure to you? Not-"

"Not a real wo up iet back toback when he reached for her again "What&039;s a real wonation "Soes your mind, keeps you on your toes, and has your back A partner in every sense of the word"

"And you think I&039;m that? Already?" Katricia asked with surprise

"I know you are," he said simply and when she just stared at him, he shook his head and said, "Who scared the bear off when I was battling him?"