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I must have looked concerned, because he smiled "Don’t worry," he murmured "We don’t need protection My kind can’t carry disease and neither can we procreate without intention And procreation is not one of ht," he explained, between kisses

"Uently, as he kissed doard ain It’s just that I’d seen that made-for-TV movie, and I knew better than to believe a man who said, "Trust me, baby,away at my boobs like a contented puppy But when he saw that I still looked concerned, he sot protection, if it hed, reaching for his trousers

I kneas probably telling me the truth and we didn’t need the condom Not to mention, I’d just handily violated every aspect ofhi in the free clinic, knocked up or with va h titty, McVitty" sate his obvious disappoint latex could be fun for both parties, if approached with enthusias caress to his undercarriage that left him cross-eyed, I lay back and opened myself to hi, slowIt’s been too long, I thought, reveling selfishly in ently at first, letting me adjust to him as his lips toyed with mine Then his kisses deepened, as did his thrusts, and soon ere going at it like two teenagers who had just discovered their apparently mismatched parts were actually wonderfully harer on , and he raised himself up on his hands to watchtofast, and seeing the lust on his face propelled everything even quicker Callinghis face in asht

We lay there, kissing and cuddling for a few ood in a really long tiuilt the next day, but for right now I pushed everything out of ainst led his eyebrows at the ocean, and I laughed Hand in hand, alked down to the sea and scrubbed ourselves off in the shallows Then we headed back to the blanket

"Dessert?" he suggested, at the same moment that I shoved half of an entire tarte au citron into uess that answers hs, which I think we both enjoyed

CHAPTER TEN

If I’d thought a dead, nearly decapitated goblin was one of the worst things I’d ever seen, I only had toI’d been

When Ryu pulled up in front of the bookstore, I’d headed into the back to change and get ready for that evening I still wasn’t able tomy minionize, once again, over ht I’d betrayed the , no pun intended, in the company of a man whose intentions were unclear to me My attraction to Ryu was undeniably powerful, and apparently ht of day, the self-confidence I’d felt the night before was quickly eroding What could someone like him ith so about him spoke of money, power, and status Meanwhile, I didn’t own a pair of panty hose I was afraid to ask et the tiet es of banality, and I actually looked around to see where they were hiding

Further, here to rescue you from your enchanted slumber, my brain re care of the father on’t move away and whom you wouldn’t abandon even if you could All of which o, and you will remain I stared aton the questions I couldn’t answer

What are you going to take froed froellated by my self-doubts, Ryu wasn’t alone Next to his Porsche was a large Audi sedan, and arguing with him hat could only have been the female version of that awful creature in Peter’s trunk

Ryu was obviously really angry, but the creature looked entirely unimpressed She just stood there, iered claws--painted a bold red, I noted--wrapped around the handle of her expensive-looking briefcase

And she was huge, towering above Ryu by at least two feet Since the only goblin I’d ever seen had been shoved into the trunk of a car, I had no idea they were so tall Her bony, ray business suit and her ed ine-red nails Her eyes glowed a horrible piquant yellow and appeared to be dripping mucus, but she did have lovely blond hair that rapped up in an elaborate French twist All in all, the contrasts added up to one of the uing with your man?" Grizzie asked, curiously I couldn’t believe she could see them, and I blinked at her, confused "She’s hot, in a corporate way Maybe she’s a naughty secretary" Grizzie leered, too busy pondering the ihty secretary" to notice that I was staring at her with absolute disbelief

Ah, the powers of gla sure who it was Grizzie turned to ht I looked nice in my sky-blue T and sexiest hipster jeans My shirt had three-quarter-length sleeves and was cut in a rather deep V-neck Because of the plunging neckline, and the fact that it was pretty thin material, I wore a nice white cheain instead of my Converse