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Gabby blanched "You ain while soht

He nodded "That soain, they s coh? Can you iine the look on that woman’s face if you’d suddenly appeared on top of her? Unless" he htfully, "with a Sidhe-seer it’s so difficult to predict; Fae power doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to around you, which is e find so unacceptable about your kind Perhaps some part of the confusion eleh at all," Gabby snapped "It felt really bad to be sat in Like I was a ghost or so"

He nodded "I know"

Her eyes narrowed "So helpht"

"But the Fae can still see us?"

"Right"

"But when you’re touching me, and I’ else And I could feel you So am I actually there, or not?"

"It’s difficult to explain, ka-lyrra; I have no human terms Your race does not yet possess ones sufficient to discuss in any useful detail"--he broke off, frowning, searching for words--"well, this is a near approxih not really at all: coent,in, eryou’d say ‘spacetiive it thirteen dimensions instead of four Humans have simultaneity issues and don’t deal ith breakdown Your concept of the universe is not yet advanced enough, although your scientists have been ress Yes, you’re real No, hued "The féth fiada doesn’t affect anis can see and feel us just fine, which is why they often see for no apparent reason"

"Uh-huh I see Adaain, in any freaking dimension, you won’t have to worry about the Hunters, I’ll kill you littered with amusement A full foot shorter than he, lesser by at least a hundred pounds, she was bristling up at him, undaunted Only one other round before hio, in another time, another world, in ninth-century Scotland Circenn’s anna: the only woman to who of ye, let h histhe voice away That was a ed

Striking without warning, giving her no chance to react, he fisted a hand in the fabric of her shirt, pulled her close, ducked his head, and brushed his lips to hers Though at the ed painfully in his jeans and his body raged forhis lips back and forth over hers, with a husky little purr

The hand not holding her shirt clenched into a tight fist at his side as he battled the urge to crush her to hiue into her mouth, drop her back onto a seat, strip her jeans down, and thrust hiave her only the barest taste of a kiss Savoring the erotic friction Feeling her lips soften beneath his Relishing the tiny catch in the back of her throat

Then letting her go

When he released his grip on her shirt, she stu utterly dazed, old eyes startled and confused and very sleepy-sexy aroused And he knew if he reached for her again, she’d not fight

Good

He wanted her wanting Wanted her wondering why he’d not taken more Wanted her prier for et addicted to me I will be both venom and antidote, your poison and your only cure

Aloud he only said softly, "Yes, Gabrielle"

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They diseia, and "checked into" a hotel Adaht, he said, as they needed to keep ht they would shower, rest, and eat "real" food (by which she guessed he )