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She offered the glass back to him and he took it, careful to sip fro to feel the war up toher awareness of his arousal in their chocolate depths Not that she’d need any special powers for that one His cock was so stiff, he was afraid it would break if he didn’this throat when his voice came out as scratchy as a thirteen-year-old’s "Vampires drink? I reed "Soood wine"

"No wine here, darlin’," he drawled, relieved to have so to think about besides her effect on his libido "Just beer and whiskey"

"The whiskey is fine Quite nice, actually," she ainst his shoulder, her hand resting high on his thigh, so close to his throbbing cock, he would have sworn he could feel the heat of her fingers caressing its aching stiffness She ran her other hand up his arhtly in his hair She reached for the whiskey again and he released it, thinking she wanted another drink

Instead, she set the tuhtly against the sides of the glass Colin watched the gentle aers closed over his erection He grabbed her hand

"Don’t," he said

"No?" Sophia purred confidently, pressing her breasts harder against his shoulder

"No," Colin confirainst the back cushions of the leather couch

She rose to her feet slowly, anger in every ht aically of the whiskey they’d been drinking moments before "How dare you?" she derateful for the anger that washed away the last vestiges of desire "Who the fuck are you? This is A I da the women I want to fuck And you knohat, Sophia? That doesn’t include you, because I don’t fuck dead wo out with incredible speed He grabbed her wrist "Ah, ah No hitting, reingly "I know you vao, Soph, and you e that now"

She looked up at hione, replaced by a look so lost, so full of sadnessShit He felt like an ass And he was pissed that she’d ure out what he wanted to say, her expression changed again, like a ance Without looking away from him, she stretched her arm toward her boots where she’d left the across the roo so close to his head that he felt the air move, so close that he knew it had been on purpose He narrowed his eyes at her, and she flashed a look of s the boots under her ar, she was out of the house and inside the car, which was already gunning for the highway Colin swore softly He hadn’t seen her move, hadn’t even seen the damn car door open and close She zipped by so fast, his front door was still swinging slightly in the breeze

"Son of bitch," he o back inside, wondering why his dick had grown hard all over again

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Raphael waited while the elevatorover one ar Duncan and the Seattle va back at the compound Duncan could have handled those reports, but he’d chosen to sit in on them, to show his people that this e burned as hotly as any of theirs The truth was his desire for retribution was greater than they could possibly understand It was his vampires who’d been taken, his children Blood of his blood

But vengeance would have to wait a fewjust below the horizon He felt it in his blood and bones It infuriated him It wearied hiht near the bed playing across the nearly still form of his beloved Cyn He secured the vault doors and crossed to the bed, watching her breathe for a few e to send her back to Malibu, to brave her anger and her protests and keep her safe But he couldn’t do that to her Wouldn’t do that to her Wouldn’t trap her in a cage of his e she would never leave because she loved hi but hate between the at such disht He lifted the covers carefully and slid into bed next to Cyn She stirred, turning toward hi and ar He wrapped his ar he could protect her fro foreboding suddenly darkened his thoughts and a final, terrifying question filled his mind before the sun took hiht