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His fingers ran a tingling path downto be okay You want to go hoy church with no kitchen or electricity? Or Ivy’s parents’ place where the tension was so tight that it ale my mom’s pointed questions while the news inescapably blared? "No," I said, reaching up to feel his new lack of stubble underertips

"Da ain"

He was holding uilt for his fear "I’et rid of"

"Yes and no"

The silence stretched and neither of us one quiet downstairs, and the world felt eht will suncide?"

Trent nodded, a shadow in the dim room "If the curse holds and they aren’t pulled back," he said, then gave ht squeeze "At least Corru a page in his weekly calendar

"There is atomorroith a few key people If you’re not busy, I think your presence would be helpful"

Apart, no one listened to us, but together theya knee up onto the couch and turning sideways so I could arrange his still-da thisand/or Mr Ray" I hesitated, shed, the sound of it seely uncertainty away "I’d really like you to be there, not necessarily as a demon representative, but as, ah" He winced

"As soht be able to fix thislike that"

His hand was on my foot, and I couldn’t help a soft ht up the side of the arch and pushed on the nerve that ran toto see soes," I said, and he began to squeeze my foot in earnest

"Actually, I’d like Dali there as well," Trent said, but I was hardly listening "I wonder if he’d come if I asked? Etude, if he could stay awake The elves are behaving badly, and I’ain letters of intent froainst further elf-to-vao of my foot and motioned for me to turn around "Your shoulders look like rocks," he said "All the way down to your feet Five minutes, and that bath of yours will be a hundred ti one leg up onto the couch, tossing the back cushion to the floor to make more room as he settled me before him "Sort of like a species intervention?" I said, then stifled ain i oes out of style"

His voice was preoccupied, andwas beside me, bare where his robe fell away "I’ll see if I can work it intothere were better ways to use a couch Unable to resist, I leaned back, ruiningwhen I tilted my head into him and found a freshly shaven patch of his neck His aro around my middle, and I smiled when , beco path higher

I turnedto work at all

Shifting, I turned to face his wrapped around him Arms about his neck, I found his ear and nibbled on it as my one foot kicked off another back cushion More room Much better

Trent’s hands held an to work his way inward to pull my shirt froers both rough and s path up to find the curve of ainst my neck was delicious, and I made tiny hop kisses froressive, and breathless, I pulled hi les overupon each other

Shock jolted through me when his teeth fastened onat me, and my pulse hammered even harder at the heated desire in theroaned when his hands eased to my back, motions firm with intent as he reached the top of , slow breath as his fingers worked to undo theive of the button was electrifying--the sound of the zipper bringingecstasy

I, I wanted this The silence was profound I thought about Ray safe in her bed, then Jon and Quen at the stables My hands were behind his neck,in the da you gave up?"

He couldn’t take my pants off with my knees to either side of him like that There was only one foot on the floor, and it was his I s he was stymied "You tell me"

I leaned to find his ear I felt hiainst ly as I nibbled on his ear "I’ll let you know torip on ravity "I work best under pressure"

"Me too" I barely breathed the words,his robe open I tensed, knowing he was going to have to do so drastic if he wantedto prolong this He saicked grin, and he s his attack

He went for my shirt, and I shivered as he pulled it and my chemise over my head in one smooth motion They fell to the floor beside the couch in a soft hush The cooler air gave oose bumps, but they vanished in a wash of heat, driven away as his eyes traveled over me an instant ahead of his hands

His robe was open, and I eased closer to hi path inward to find hihs, and then I gasped when he unexpectedly found ently bitfor hiy fro through me We’d played with the lines before, andto be like that, then

I felt our auras begin to shift to find a round, and I al he collected washed back into roaned, and in that instant of beme there

His robe fell open around us, and I blinked up at hi little spills of energy trace a path where my lips had been