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"Flexibility is just one of my many talents"

"I’d like to see more of your talents, bébé Maybe I could teach you a few things myself"

"You’re so very altruistic"

"I don’t know that word, but I’ it’s similar to sexy"

He reached for ently to h my body, and it took effort to stay on the trapeze But so was off I pulled away and licked my lips

"Wine You taste of wine"

"I e before I can sell the wine properly, bébé Part of the job, being a brigand"

I looked closer His eyes were slightly red, which was reen

"Are you drunk, Vale?"

He grinned, hands back on the trapeze on either side of my hips

"Peut-être"

With a whoop, he pulled the trapeze back and ran, pushingfroo far, as the as near and I’d adjusted the ropes to keep it close to the ground, but I still felt the sensation of flying I took advantage of the mirror to watch the fine lines of his back and the way the trousers hugged his butt A red-striped handkerchief fluttered from his back pocket When he hit the wall, he kicked off it and swung back, tucking up his knees so the trapeze could swing in the other direction

I tried to hide h the air on a trapeze with a seriously hot guy dangling just underneath s

"Yep, you’re drunk"

"Just a little Just enough"

"Just enough for what? Wailing and waking up the entire cabaret?"

He let his feet down, dragging his boots to bring the trap to a stop I held on tightly and reco theility than a drunkup and turned in the air, landing on his feet, facing h to come to you when I don’t have any information, any tips, any trinkets, any advice To co but myself"

"Vale, you don’t have to--"

I tried to slide off the trapeze, but he pinnedainst me His arms wrapped around my waist as he ran his nose up the buttons of e I couldn’t breathe and suddenly felt as if I was upside down, as if everything had gone topsy-turvy

"No, I don’t have to I want to And if it took half a cask of the best wine in Paris, so be it Bébé, I’m not just your errand boy I wantinan object of lust who never gave in to her own passions Hell, maybe I felt the same way, not that I was about to adold rings set in the curve of his ear

"More what?" I let my breath play over his scalp "Eh, bébé?"

He drew a deep breath and buried his face between ht entirely by surprise The hot, wet touch of his tongue would have sentarms not held me firmly down

It was insane, the way he devoured me with lips and teeth, and all I could do was hold on for dear life, feeling as if I was floating a round

"Ouch!"