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"Jared?"

At last he h her hair

"Um"

"That was"

"Well, you know, I try"

He sounded as if he were htly

"Definitely different; I’ht"

"Why not?"

"You bit me"

"Bit you?"

"Well, you know "

"Love nibbles"

She didn’t want to mention the fact that love nibbles didn’t usually draw blood After all, it had been

Spectacular

"Jared?"

"H But then he turned, drawing her very close to hi

"Jared, what’s theI’m just cold Whoa, so cold!"

"Well, you sillysnow" His lips brushed her forehead with a kiss So different Now, a touch as tender as a breath of sweet, war another blanket"

She got out of bed, stuainst the bedstead, and swore

"Jareda light would be nice"

"Cindy, just coet you a blanket," she informed hih A second later, he was up, drawing her into his ar if he could see at all in the darkness how he had touched her

But when they were back in bed, huddled together as close as two peas in a pod, he was still shaking

She said no ive him all her warmth

She wished Jordan could see just hoeet he could be at times He really was a beautiful man

And to think

There had been ti a reen-eyed ht she was siht Cindy slept with a sht

Little cutsa few drops of blood Theyat all

CHAPTER 6

Cindy and Jared were not at the breakfast table in the ht wryly of the way they had been the night before Good for them

Jared must have left her roo So e!