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Arht at the market in town, and then moved to the kitchen door and peered up the hall and out the front screen door at the yard Still no sign of Eshe and Bricker Scowling, he roceries he&039;d set on the island and took out potatoes and onions next Once those too were stored away, he again returned to the kitchen door to peer up the hall toward the front yard Nope Still no Eshe and Bricker Arain

It had been past dahen he&039;d finally finished all the chores and retired to his bed that h that he&039;d dropped right off to sleep rather than lie there lusting after Eshewhich was exactly what he&039;d hoped for However, his exhaustion hadn&039;t stopped hi the erotic shared dreahed at the memory of some of those dreams If Eshe was half as hot in reality as she&039;d been in the dreams, he didn&039;t think he&039;d ever be able to send her away What&039;s more, between those and his complete lack of sleep the day before, as well as the busy day and evening he&039;d had, Ar It had been after five o&039;clock when he&039;d finally woken up He&039;d co over hoould handle Eshe today, only to find it wasn&039;t a concern Neither she nor Bricker was there

A quick check around had shown that while their bikes were gone, their rooms still held their possessions, so it had appeared they&039;d return eventually That knowledge had left Armand rather relieved, which was odd, since he&039;d been ready to send Eshe away the night before

Too hungry to worry about his own confused feelings then, Arerator and then searched the cupboards in a hunt for food The probleain was that once you started, your stoone so long not eating that there hadn&039;t been much to choose from in his kitchen It see thes and toast, he hadn&039;t a clue how to cook them After a brief debate, Armand had taken himself off to the diner for a meal

As it turned out, that had been a most fortuitous event Armand had found himself a replacement for Paul while at the diner It had happened alroup, it seemed, and news had apparently spread quickly that his previous er had been forced to leave by supposed faiven Mrs Ramsey Armand had barely seated himself in a booth when a couple of men from other tables had come to introduce themselves and tell him they had heard about his problehbors had a grown son who had studied agriculture at the university and planned to someday take over the family farm or start his own concern His father was still in his early forties, however, and young enough to run the farht of the young ht all around that ould be best for the boy was if he helped out Ar his farm for him It would put some more experience under the boy&039;s belt, and prepare him for when he was ready to either take over the faer to have a reed to talk to the younginto the diner It seeet his butt to the diner before the men had even joined Ar to, and reading, young Jim Spencer, Armand had hired the fellow His probleer to start, especially once he learned he&039;d get to stay in the er&039;s house, his first home away from home; and Armand finished his meal quite pleased with himself

He&039;d been so pleased with hin, he&039;d decided to pull in and pick up some food for his woman and Bricker, and that had been one hell of an experience Food had been nothing like it was nohen last he&039;d eaten Ar that caught his eye into the cart, and a hell of a lot of things had caught his eye The packaging nowadayslook delicious He wasn&039;t even sure what half of what he&039;d picked up was Or how to cook it, and he&039;d left with the back of his pickup piled with groceries-and still pleased with hiht up until he&039;d arrived home to find that Bricker and Eshe still weren&039;t there

It was then he&039;d started to worry Armand supposed he should have worried when he&039;d first realized they were away fro sleepy had affected his thinking However, he&039;d been fed and ide awake by the time he&039;d returned home, and it had then occurred to hiht un to worry so much then that he&039;d actually called Lucian However, Lucian hadn&039;t been concerned at all He&039;d told him that since they were in the area, he&039;d sent theeneral vicinity regarding a case so on

Ar then, but he was still upset They could have at least left a bloody letter so he wouldn&039;t have worried about theht irritably as he pulled a canister of whipped crea and peered at it curiously He knehat cream was; he had soland when Susanna had been alive, but that had been clotted cream on warm, soft scones with preserves He&039;d never heard of whipping it, and despite his annoyance, he found himself curious He&039;d always enjoyed clotted creaainst the counter, he popped the lid off and peered at what res curving in toward the center Quite strange He&039;d never seen anything like it Armand held out his hand, pal caain, wondering if he wasn&039;t supposed to rerabbed the plastic tube, intending to try to twist it off, but dropped the canister with a start as it began to hiss and so wet hit his hand

Armand stared down at the now-silent canister on the floor, then at his hand, eyebrows rising when he saw the white substance there He raised his hand to his nose and sniffed at it Noting the delicate scent, he then licked at the foa as the familiar taste of cream filled his senses It was a little different froht rather than thick, but it was good Licking the rest of it off his palain and fiddled with it, pressing at the tip until he figured out hoork it Armand then sprayed some more onto his hand and licked that off as well He was about to repeat the action when he decided to bypass his hand, simply opened his lips, tipped his head back, and sprayed the whipped creaood Delicious Da such yuht I was the only one who did that"

Aruiltily to the door to see Bricker framed there A heartbeat later the other immortal stumbled into the roo to enter Relief ran through Armand the moer He sed the whipped cream in his mouth and scowled at the pair of them "Where the hell have you two been? I orried sick that Leonius had got you or so I even called Lucian You could have left me a damned letter so I wouldn&039;t worry"

Eshe and Bricker exchanged glances and then Eshe moved toward him "I&039;m sorry if orried you We should have left a note"

"Yes, you should have," he agreed gri at her as she paused before him "And you still haven&039;t told , she leaned up toward him Armand froze as she licked a bit of whipped cream off his bottom lip

"Mmmm," she murmured with pleasure and then sucked his lower lip into her hly of the sweet substance before urging her tongue between his lips to kiss hi there stunned when she broke the kiss and moved her lips to his ear to whisper, "That&039;s lovely Sweet and creamy, mixed with the taste of you Makes me want to spread it all over your body and lick it off"

Arot the question of where they&039;d been, sed, and then growled, "When?"

Eshe chuckled huskily and nipped at his ear "Now"

Stepping back then, she gave him what they used to call a coht," Bricker said lightly as Eshe disappeared from view "I&039;ll make supper while you two are otherwise occupied, shall I?"

Arlanced to the man with surprise when the whipped cream was suddenly removed from his hand, and muttered, "Eshe wants that"

Visions in his ht all over his body and licking and nibbling it away, he tried to snatch the whipped crea the whipped cream out of his reach "Eshe wants you, the whipped crea from my experience with Decker and Mortimer when they found their life mates, you ton&039;t have the restraint to even spray this anywhere, let alone lick it up the first ti while you two get busy Why waste a good can of whipped creao on, hurry after her If there&039;s one thing I know about Eshe d&039;Aureus, it&039;s that she&039;s not a very patient woprobably naked by now"

Armand peered at the whipped cream for a moment, Bricker&039;s sensible words slow to pierce his lust-fogged brain But then a couple of synapses fired and he turned and headed out of the kitchen

He found Eshe&039;s leather jacket on the hall floor at the base of the stairs and snatched it up on his way past Her leather pants were on the top step and he grabbed those as well beforeon to collect her leather top where it lay in the open door to her roo that up and paused in the doorway at the sight of Eshe leaning against the nearest post of her four-poster bed She wore nothing but a pair of white silk panties and a strapless white bra Both of which he recalled her purchasing the night before in town His gaze slid over her body, noting her long beautiful legs, her luscious hips, the curve of her waist, and then the curves of her perfect breasts rising out of the bra, before reaching her face Her eyes were on fire, golden flaht I&039;d let you finish undressing me," she said huskily

Armand kicked the bedroom door closed, let the clothes drop to the floor, and had crossed the space separating theasped and shivered with excitement as Armand bored down on her, then he was suddenly there, his body plastered to hers, pressing her back against the bedpost alainst her She&039;d hoped to distract him from his questions about where they&039;d been, and she&039;d apparently succeeded beautifully The question had obviously been forgotten by hiot that worry too as his eneau was one hell of a kisser Eshe found her toes curling into the carpet she stood on as hisat first her upper lip and then her lower When his tongue finally slid out to join the play, shebriefly at the front of his shirt, before she gave that up to slide her arers into his hair

He had nice, silky hair, and Eshe toyed with and tugged at it as his hands began to move over her body They followed the curve of her back, pressing herdown to clasp her botto erection pressing against his jeans