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"So are you"

"Come on," he said, "I’ll wash your back and you can wash ood, I’ll even let you wash the front"

"As if you could stopwith Zack was an experience like no other He washed her hair and then, very thoroughly and slowly, he washed the rest of her, starting at her neck and working his way down He had ht His touches, his kisses, had her practically screa that turnabout was fair play, she took the soap fro her hand over his sto he could be the poster boy for perfect six-pack abs

He gasped when her hands slid lower, and she laughed out loud She could hide what she was thinking and feeling He couldn’t

The water was nearly cold when he turned it off and carried her, wet and dripping, into the bedroo her in his ar her with him, so that she landed on top of him One hand cupped her nape as he kissed her brow, her nose, her cheeks

Alainst hirowled

"Why? Don’t you like it?"

"Oh, yeah, but I was hoping to draw this out a little longer"

"Next time," she said

"Whatever you want, darlin’," he replied

He rolled over effortlessly, tucking her neatly beneath hi with hers while his hands stroked her da her skin et, she thought, or she probably would have gone up in flao

"Now, Zack" She lifted her hips to receive him It was heaven, pure heaven, to be in his arainst her own as his body became a part of hers, two halves uniquely different, yet made to be one, each half incomplete without the other, each heart unfulfilled without the other Heat suffused her They were bound by ht They were forever bound by blood

Theydance as old as ti to hihtless, as he carried her into a world filled withshe had ever known His own climax came hard on the heels of her own Sheened with perspiration, she closed her eyes, sated and content as she slowly drifted back to earth

With a sigh, she trailed her fingertips over his shoulders "Next tiet to be on top"

After the next time, they took another shower, then scurried back to bed and snuggled under the covers Zack stroked Kaitlyn’s neck and shoulders Her skin was soft and sh she lay quietly beside hi so loudly, he had no trouble hearing her thoughts

"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked

She tilted her head back so she could see his face "About what?"

"About yourh

"It isn’t necessary I know youabout it"

Kaitlyn turned onto her side, facing Zack "Will she be the same? Will she still behow she’ll react to her new life I iine it’s different when you’re born a vampire You knohat to expect, or at least you knohat’s coe, but I kneas natural for us, so I wasn’t afraid I’d seen it happen to others fro an adjustment I could still eat and drink whatever I wanted And "

"You were lucky It’s different with es Everything is different Some people accept it without a problem Some aren’t so lucky"

"What do you mean?"

"Takeher across"

"Really? Why?"

"She was dying I’d never turned anyone before, and I was reluctant to do it, you know? I told her I was afraid I’d kill her" He laughed at theto lose but a few days"

"How did she know you were a vaht A customer came on to me and I kept her with me in the club after it closed Scherry had a key and she ca" He shook his head with the memory "Any other wohed "Bold as brass, that girl She asked "

"Still, it must have taken a lot of nerve for her to ask you Iwhat you’d do You could have been souy You could have killed her"

"I tried to talk her out of it, but, like she said, she had nothing to lose"

"At least it turned out all right," Kaitlyn said