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"Kelly! Kelly!"

Fearing he had taken toowound to her lips

"Drink, Kelly," he urged "Youotten as a new heartbeat rode the dark wings of the night

"Ah, Edward," she ori paused on the narroooden pier, a sudden chill running down his spine

"What is it?" Marisa asked She glanced around the park, wondering if Grigori had sensed danger lurking in the shadows They walked here often in the evening She remembered the first time they had come here, shortly after they met She hadn&039;t known he was a vaely coh the park, had er with her first crush She looked up at Grigori He earing the saht It was a color that suited hiht itself

He swore softly "There is a new vaht Kelly across"

"How do you know?"

"I can feel it" Grigori took her hand and started walking again He turned left at the end of the bridge and h the middle of the park "He would have been wiser to wait a while"

"What do you mean?"

"In a word, Khira"

"Oh"

"Exactly Khira has already destroyed e, there were only three of us left; Ramsey, Lisa, and myself

"Lisa? I&039;ve never heard you , and still new to the Dark Gift" Grigori shook his head "Raht Kelly across until Khira left town"

"Do you really think she&039;ll leave?"

"She will go back to Italy sooner or later; I have no doubt of that" He stopped walking and drew Marisa into his arms "I don&039;t want to talk about her now Do you reht we came here?"

"Of course You asked me what scared me, and I said vampires"

He nuzzled her neck "Are you still afraid of vah the hair at his nape "What do you think?"

"I think we should go ho on tiptoe, she nibbled on his lower lip "Why?"

He drew her up against hi her feel the obvious evidence of his desire "That&039;s why"

She looked up at him and batted her eyelashes "Why, sir," she drawled in her best Southern belle i "Minx!"

"Minx! Minx, around his hips against hers "Do your worst, Miss Scarlett"

"My worst, sir? Oh, no, I shall do my best"

"Do not tempt me, cara, or I shall take you here, now"

"You&039;re kidding, right?" Marisa asked, suddenly serious

"No"

"But"

He stilled her protest with a kiss as he swept her into his arms and carried her up the side of the hill until he caround Inside the shelter of the branches, he sat down, then slowly fell back, drawing Marisa down on top of him

He had kissed and caressed her all the way up the hill Now, locked in his ar seductively over her body, she had no thought except to pleasure him and be pleasured in return

She s brushed her throat What would it be like to be able to give hiave her?