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It sent hisdrive they’d taken together on vineyard business The one that had ended with both of theht blue sky streaked with shooting stars

"Corabbed a bottle of the newest Aglianico fro up the side of the nearby hill He watched her go, her long legs bare and her curvy backside clad in grape-stained, faded denim shorts He was always in a state of arousal around her, but seeing her dance away froranite

"Bella, you’d better coood idea" Nevertheless, he pulled an old wool blanket froed after her

She helped hirass, then pulled him down next to her "Here, open this" She handed him the bottle and a corkscrew

"I don’t drink wine," he reminded her as he pulled the cork out with a soft pop None of his kind did, but she knew that well enough

"Do you ever wish you could? Even a taste?"

"No" He had never craved wine, but then he watched her tip the bottle to her lips to take a sip and he knew a thirst unlike any he’d ever known Her throat worked as she sed, her head tipped back, drawing his eyes to the creamy column of her neck

He cleared his throat, searching for his voice as his fangs punched out of his guan to fire with a us back at the vineyard"

She slowly brought the bottle down frorass Her lips et, as dark as cherries fro black lashes frao, Ettore?"

He knew it as the chance it was--his only hope to stop this need for Bella before it went too far They had been circling this moment for weeks Hell, from the lances Brief touches Shared laughter Then, later, after he’d fought his attraction for as long as he could, there had been a kiss, a few stolen embraces Followed by heated caresses that had left both of thehteen years old to his twenty-five

Even worse, she was the Breed he should be doing was sitting beside her in the starlight, staring at her throat and wishing he was a better h to lie and say he wasn’t out of his mind with desire for her

"What do you want, Ettore?"

"You"

He took her down beneath him on the blanket and unwrapped her as reverently as a precious gift Each breathless moment was seared into his senses, from her softinch of her…to her shuddering cries as he entered her virgin body and introduced her to an even deeper pleasure as the sea of shooting stars skated overhead

Savage groaned at the uninvited recollection and the need it stoked in him even now