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Earlier Thierry had carried her into the bathroo on the shower he had filled the tub ater and some of her herbal bath salts
"Don’t you want to take a shower?" she asked "It’s faster"
"Letready for bed," he told her as he picked her up and stepped into the tub, easing down into the water with her on top of hiainst his chest with her arnant "You saw me undress"
"I did not peep I watched I watched everything you did, as often as I could" He stroked her breast with the backs of his fingers "It was a sha more than to be filled with you"
She bent down to whisk a kiss across his mouth "Before you filledher first, and then tossing aside the cloth to use his hands on her His slick fingers cupped her above and below, one thu over her nipple while the other exposed her clit "I want s I wanted to take you while you slept"
"Thierry" Her breath caught in her throat
"It would have been so easy to pull up your nightgown, spread your thighs, and put myself in you" He made the water splash around them as he lifted her up "I wanted you to wake up while I was deep inside you, stroking you" He brought her down, iid penis until she took every inch of hiht I found you naked," he murmured as she trembled with a fast, helpless clihs clench It s she wanted to do to hi hi hie of the counter She’d have to change her panties now; they were soaked through Stop thinking about sex
She knew there were other, equally is that they would need to talk about How he had entered her dreaht he was a vampire, and that she had a terminal condition The latter worried her the most She didn’t care if he really was a seven-hundred-year-old dehtly delusional , and she’d love hi?
Yes He would, her heart answered
Just before it was time to leave for therooeous, Mother" She adhed out loud when she saw Daniel Bradford, as dressed as a mad scientist "What’s this? You look like Dr Frankenstein"
"How do you know I’ray eyebrows
Meryl o now, please? I’d rather not be late"
Valentin Jaus’s ht her breath as she saw that the walks and drives were illuminated by thousands of dark blue candles in crystal holders Overhead, silvery bluecrystal spiders, ghosts, and bats
"What a strange choice of colors for Halloween," Daniel said as he escorted Meryl and Jema up the walk to the front of Derabend Hall "I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go with an all-blue the for theJaus to find a costume for her when she sa beautifully dressed his friends were
One couple wore Renaissance Italian-aristocrat costumes, heavily eeh in a tower of glossy ringlets, while the man had his brown hair in a short, intricate braid Both wore stiff black satin olden and crimson thread
Everyone wore a mask, which reminded Jema to put on the little blue satin strip of cloth that had co it over her eyes lad it covered her bruises Makeup didn’t hide everything
"Mademoiselle," soiant dressed in a merchant’s costume bow to her "We are humbled by your beauty" His German accent emphasized the deep bass of his voice "Suzerain Jaus could not have chosen a lovelier lady to grace his garden"
"Hello" Before she could introduce herself and correct his assumption, the man bowed and walked ahead of them A petite redheaded woman dressed as a Harlequin looked back at Jema with open curiosity before she hurried to catch up to the dark merchant
"What’s a suzerain?" Daniel asked her
"It’s an old word that"It hasn’t been used sinceto do with the masque"
Meryl’s ht ar sheathed swords at their sides "All these costu about Halloween?"
"I believe they invented it," was Daniel’s tongue-in-cheek reply
Valentin Jaus careet them at the door He wore the costuht blue as Je silver epaulets and mock medals and ribbons fashioned out of crystal His fair hair had been tied back in an old-fashioned queue thatlines of his face seem more majestic than ever He bowed to Meryl and Daniel, and then smiled and kissed the back of Jele" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>