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Fresh shivers of pleasure shot through her and she groaned "Stop that," she whispered, snugging closer to hihed and kissed her hard on the mouth "Ten minutes, ten years, ten centuries, sweet Cyn," he murmured, suddenly serious "I love you Whatever ti fro more than just the terrific sex "I love you too," she whispered, almost fearfully

"Then stay, my Cyn Stay withwhen she heard thetheht doze as she sat up, the sheet falling away from her naked body

"I pro lesson today," she said

Raphael pulled her back down and leaned forward to suckle lazily on breasts still swollen and tender froh to say, "You can leave whenever you want Everything will lock behind you" Then he lowered hisher back to the pillows as his tongue wandered lower

"Will you be back?" he asked, his breath warainst the damp skin of her belly

"Try--" She gasped as his tongue rasped over her clit She sed and started again "Try to keepwill keep "

Cyn shivered in sudden foreboding and whispered a prayer to the winds that fate was occupied elsewhere this ht

Cyn took the front steps to Lucia’s at a cheerful run, even though she’d had little , but it was the good sort of ache, the kind that leaves you feeling energizedat least for a few hours At so to crash face first into a pillow, but not yet Not even the wall-shaking noise level of the usual gang of teens watching television and playing ga

Lucia was on the phone in her office She gave Cyn a silent once over and raised her eyebroingly before going back to whatever bureaucrat she was arguing with Cyn backtracked down the hall to the foot of the stairs and yelled for Liz Not her usual mode of communication, but when in Rome?

Down the hall, she heard Lucia slam the phone with a curse, and she reentered the office in ti under her breath about the overnlared at Cyn

"And you!" she said, continuing her unrelated diatribe "I knohat you’ve been up to, you bitch Look at you, all shiny and gloith satisfaction while I’ the morons over at social services Tell rin

"Oh, shit, Cyn, ould--" Luci stopped herself and looked closely at her friend "You’re happy," she said, then squinted even closer "No, you’re in fucking love" She sighed "If you’re happy, I’m happy But, sweetie," she put a hand on Cyn’s ar she rarely did Luci laughed and said, "Okay, now I know you’re in love But you tell that big bloodsucker if he breaks your heart again, I’ for him with a stake"

Footsteps thundered down the stairs and Liz appeared in the doorway She stopped when she saw the to a little worried

"Not a thing," Luci said quickly, giving Cyn a warning glance before she could respond with the obvious tasteless rejoinder Not that she would have Honest

"Hey, kid, Happy Birthday," Cyn said cheerily "You ready for the big day?"

"Give me a break, like I’ve never driven before" Liz rolled her eyes in the tiers "I need these stupid lessons to get my license, but it’s not like I don’t already kno to drive"

"Right," Cyn said, with a private grin for Lucia "Let’s get this useless exercise over with then We’ll be back in a couple of hours," she added in Luci’s direction "You want anything while I’ht," Luci said dryly "It’s been awhile"