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She shook her head, her eyes wide, pupils dilated with desire "No"
"Would you like to be? Is that why you’re here?"
She see up with an answer for that Did she think she could lie to him? Impossible A vaes that affected huue darted out to moisten her lips
"That’s not--" She drew a deep breath, her breasts once again brushing against his chest, evenher so closely that he felt the scrape of her erect nipples and heard the soft hitch in her breath that she probably hadn’t intended him to hear
Aden’s lip curled in pleasure She wanted to feel the kiss of his fangs, but she didn’t want to want it This hat he loved This hat made him hard His cock swelled, thick and hot beneath the fine wool of his slacks, and he shifted slightly, letting her feel it
She sucked in a breath Her hand cahtly, as if she couldn’t decide whether to stop hi him closer
Aden dipped his head and drew in the scent of her, her arousal, her blood so close to the surface, rushing through the big vein beneath her ear, thick and warular, then lifted his head and blew softly on the wet skin
Sidonie shivered and made a little sound of pleasure, and Aden sht?" he whispered
She stiffened "What?"
SID LAID HER HAND on Aden’s chest and sighed with pleasure He was so big, theto do this thing He’d started in on her al at her in that low, sexy, voice, his dark eyes caressing every curve of her body, every inhaled breath that plury, ht had drained hi the full-court press right off the starting line The part of her brain that was a writer chided her for the mixed metaphor, but she told it to shut the fuck up
She shivered as Aden bent closer, his wet tongue gliding over the skin beneath her ear, his breath warined it would be She couldn’t stop the tiny sound of pleasure that escaped her lips Hadn’t she known all along it would come to this? Hadn’t she dressed this way to seduce him, to have his teeth on her neck? And what could it hurt? It was just a little bit of blood, after all
"Where did you go last night?" he whispered
Sid blinked, the unexpected question like a slap in the face "What?" she asked, and shoved at his chest to no effect
Aden straightened and stared down at her, every inch of hione "For whohtly on her spike heels when he abruptly let her go "I’ for anyone, you ass," she snapped "I’ve been trying to tell you for days why I’ Mr Important that you haven’t taken the tiain, loo than sexy "What did you hear last night? And whorown up with two older brothers She’d been dealing with bigger ainst Aden’s chest, trying to force hi up Most people never saw it, but she had a tees and she couldn’t hold a er finally bubbled to the surface, it ca s her hand back in a fist ai face, just as she would have one of her brothers But Aden caught her hand and glared down at her
"You don’t want to do that"
"Then let go of ht?"
"No one, damn it I live alone There’s no one" Her voice trailed off
"What?" he dehts were racing Professor Dresner It had to be She remembered Dresner’s reaction as soon as she’d , how she’d pumped Sid for information, then almost iht?" she whispered, looking up at hiht he wouldn’t answer, but then he said, "A lot of vampires died None of the her throat Had those vampires died because of her? "What about Silas?" she asked
Aden’s gaze narrowed dangerously "What do you know about Silas?"
She shook her head "Nothing I heard the naht Bastien was on the phone"
"And you told someone Who was it?"
Sid didn’t want to say Surely she owed Professor Dresner that much They weren’t exactly friends, and it sounded as if she’d betrayed Sid’s trust, but they were both hu? Soht," Aden growled "You want to knoho’s really responsible for all those dead va, and to Silas who ran, knohat I would do to the va had gotten turned around She’d started this to save lives, and now it seemed she’d cost them instead Or Dresner had But wasn’t she responsible, too?
"I’ve been working with soripped her hip once ht "She’s sort of an expert on vampire behavior"
"A human?"