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"Oh, I don’tEphrai look

"Chris?"

"We’reto have ourselves a little talk and then we’ll ," Chris explained Even Isabella, who just barely stopped herself fro his little cal and thankfully Ephraim seemed reasonable and probably wouldn’t leave so"Callas he left faster than her eyes could follow

"What? I need you!" she called out "Get back here!

Don’t leave me alone with him!"

"If I didn’t know better I’d think that you didn’t want to be alone with ave one of her long strands of hair a slight tug to turn her so that she was once again facing him

She blinked "Because I don’t?"

He si and heavy "I’ to pretend that you didn’t say that because I know you didn’t mean it"

"Oh no, I meant it," she admitted as she tried to look around for a way down or help At the et back to solid ground

Chris chuckled softly as he leaned in until he was cheek to cheek with her, further unnerving her since she couldn’t really tell if he was angry when he spoke She needed to keep an eye out for that angry tick beneath his eye so she knehen to shut the hell up

"Now," he said, sending a delicious wave of his warm breath over her neck, "why don’t you telland what they wanted?"

She opened her mouth to answer hiainst her neck "Oh god," she ainst her neck, careful of the shallow cuts that marred her skin

"Izzy?"

"Hmmm?" she asked as her eyes threatened to close frouessed that such simple chaste kisses could set her body on fire? She certainly hadn’t She could al he’d put her through, including scaring the hell out of her tonight

Al ainst her neck

"I was?" she asked, feeling a little confused