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"I’m sorry" Heat flooded back, this time only to my cheeks

"Why on earth are you sorry?"

"That was so inappropriate"

He laughed It was an exuberant, booh He put an ar there was no sexual overtone in the gesture

"If you hadn’t done it, I would have Just being in the sah dizzy should have been substituted with horny as sin, his phrasing seeet used to it"

"I hope not"

"This is how it’s meant to be with us Is there any better evidence that we’re supposed to be together?"

"I don’t know if an irresistible urge to shred your clothing and ed a sether, but I couldn’t deny there was so remarkable about our physical connection

"I hope this hasn’t put you off having dinner with me"

"No" I bit my lip in contemplation "But if you don’t mind, I’d really like to eat out" I faced the door so as to not look at the bed

"Don’t trust me?"

"I don’t trust me" That was the God’s honest truth "I think it’ll be a lot safer with a table between us"

I got a e dinner table and ripping my shirt apart with his bare hands I turned my face away

"If you think that’ll help" I knew fro the exact sa

Chapter Sixteen

The elevator ride doas silent and tense I edged between Lucas and Desmond, and it created a bizarre flavor coht was the blond ho, at only an inch or so taller than me, looked short compared to the other tere each over six feet With all the oddness of otten his name, but he reintroduced hi eyes of a trouble surly and stared at the elevator doors with a steadfast scowl Froer in the front than in the back, and he constantly pushed it out of his eyes Against ment, I decided the way his eyes squinted in frustration was actually rather attractive What the hell rong with me?

As I contemplated Desmond’s profile, Lucas took my hand in his I didn’t shake free in spite of the fact that I normally loathed any kind of public display of affection

It felt odd for me to allow it since eren’t really a couple But I couldn’t deny I liked the way e, warm palm

We exited, not in the lobby but one of the basee was lit by scattered fluorescent bulbs, giving it a cold, blue hue in sharp contrast to the war plenty of ideal locations for people and things to hide theun afterthe Tribunal Weapons of any kind were forbidden inside the council headquarters I thought it was unnecessary to ban the the vampires themselves basically eapons

A fa for us This time Dominick held a door open forforced into the back I sat far enough fro out the tinted e drove into the light-dappled night

There was a feeling of unease into do with my wolf or what had happened between Lucas andhio on a Doet a tan I’d like to not wrestle with a monster who threatened to burst out of s see Alexandre Peyton alive