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Mal snarled soone Kohana cursed himself Truth, he’d overlooked her reaction if Jere on, he’d been knocked off balance, hearing Elisa’s absolute certainty that she was being sent away He’d thought Mal had changed course, and it had ticked hi fierce

"Men are total idiots" Chu out of her nostrils as he came back into the kitchen With Elisa out of co Kohana prepare dinner, chopping carrots so ferociously Kohana was thinking he should get the knife from her She stopped, waved it at hiesture, days after he was so ht away And we can’t say anything Why is it men think actions are better than words?"

A lock of hair had co more attention to the line of her sli lashes She earing a V-neck T-shirt, one that showed the hint of cleavage, the cotton aze wander that way, but Chueon was hard for any ht?

The hell with that She noted the direction of his gaze a bare second before Kohana reached out, clasped her arh she collided against his chest, the knife still gripped in her hand He didn’t care about that Cupping her face, he held her close with the other, sliding his arm around her waist to hold her fast as he kissed her, hard and longdeep Her body stiffened, then eased, then fully melded into his, so close and hot that his need ran away from hi the hip and the taut, round buttock, pressing her against an erection large and aching enough to coe, damn it all

The knife dropped to the floor and her hands slid up under his ar into his shirt When he finally stopped, they were both breathing hard, and he knew she was just as aroused as he was, a pure shot of adrenaline His voice was thick when he spoke

"Maybe because we’re better at action"

She stared up at hily vulnerable It entle his hold on her neck, pass his thumb over her nape "I didn’t just do that for the hell of it, you know"

She sed "I sure hope not Because if you did, I will kick your ass, oldevery curve of her body to his, as if they were two saplings seeded together, trunks and roots inextricably and irrevocably intertwined

For so long, he’d felt like an unopened can of soda around her, all shook up with nowhere for all that violent pressure to go It wasn’t as good as he’d iined--it was leaps and bounds better, because it was raw and unleashed, and quiet and constant as a river at once He didn’t need a sha in nature

He was still worried about Elisa, but soht Because Mal was like that unopened soda as well, and the little ood kick Her vampire had blood in his eye, and the top was likely to explode right off As he pulled Chuedat all

Wo with her, but she knew better than this As Kohana had pointed out, she’d been a servant all her life She knew there were lines you didn’t cross

Unless she didn’t think she had anything left to lose If you put her on that plane, you ht as well kill her Still, he wasn’t in awith all ive herYeah, she didn’t know about it, but damn it, she needed to learn to trust hi to the kick of his heated blood that said it was tiht

When he pulled up in the Jeep and switched it off, he saw things were as Kohana described them, and that didn’t help settle hih they’d rinsed down the area thoroughly, he still smelled traces of the blood that had been shed here

That, as well as this situation, wouldn’t be a cals, particularly the one to who three crossbows on hi to the staff He’d heard her through herto hurthim Please stop; just put theo, but you can lower the orders if you were better at taking theht just as his Jeep crested the hill Everything in her tensed up She hadn’t knohat else to do She’d thought he wouldn’t listen otherwise

It pissed hiot out of the Jeep and strode toward the enclosure, Chayton was outside of it When he stepped forward, his face set in that sa mask Kohana had shown hi to send Chayton skittering back in shock and self-preservation Sometimes his employees needed to remember that he was no more a tame pet than the other kind they handled on the island

As he moved into the communal enclosure, crossed the space between them, he spoke "Would you like to tellto her feet, the ainst Jereh fro as she’d hoped, proud and defiant throughout Jeremiah squatted on the other side of the bars, catty-corner While he didn’t lances