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"Who is it?" he called warily

When he heard the soft reply, his eyes flared, then narrowed With a lazy smile and slow deliberation, he dropped the towel he’d just knotted loosely about his waist

"No holds barred tonight, ka-lyrra," he ht to see her until dinner But she was here, outside his door, outside his bedchaht as well have strolled up to the lion’s lair, nicely basted in fresh, war harsh and shallow

Would she be wearing them? Was she ready to admit? To take him? This woman who’d been raised on the worst tales of him, some of which were completely true?

And she knew that She knew he’d razed the Highlands after Morganna; he’d seen the look on her face when she’d asked hianna had died She knew that, for all the things that were inaccurate in her Books, there were some that weren’t She knew that in nearly six thousand years he’d done a thing or two to merit some of the bad press he’d received Gabrielle was no fool

Had she seen past it? Had she seen him?

Would she have those damn diamonds on? He was almost afraid to open the door and see, so badly did he want her, given coht, now, thissix thousand years for it Christ, as happening to hilaring at the door and had no idea how long he’d been doing it He shook his head,a curse at his idiocy For Christ’s sake, he was Ada mortal lad

"Couttural than usual, he deigned not to notice He stood at his full height of six feet four and a half inches, legs splayed, arold adornments of his royal house

The door opened slowly--he felt like it was opening in slow frigging motion--but then there she was, and he felt as if sout

He was pleased to see she appeared to be suffering the sa wide "Y-y-you’ren-n--" she sputtered Tried again, "Oh Heavens My Goodness" Wet her lips Took a deep breath "Holy shit, you’re naked And oh--OH!" Her gaze dipped then flew back up to his face, and her eyes went even wider

A smile of pure masculine triumph curved his lips "Ah, yes," he purred "And you,my dia wildly

Two-hundred-pounds-plus of gorgeous naked ely, intensely beautiful that she couldn’t tear her gaze away Had to reirl, so breathe, O’Callaghan She looked up and down, up and down again, little breaths slaether in her throat

Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the sa to be the sa of an epoch if he wanted to There was, quite si with sleek aniaze He was hunter and she was food And fro to devour her

He stalked to her, towering over her, staring down, reaching out to lightly touch the choker at her neck with his fingertips "You knohat this means," he said softly, intensely "Mine You accept it You’re er to her lips "Don’t say a word Just letto see you in this dress"

Circling behind her, he pushed the door gently closed, and she heard theof tumblers as he locked it He padded slowly around her

"Christ, you’re beautiful, Gabrielle Do you kno badly I want you? Do you knohat fantasies I’ve been playing through my mind about you? Do you kno et rid of this bloody eternal hard-on? Knowing that the only thing that was going to help was you?"

He padded another slow naked circle around her "And now here you are Inout until I say you are And I may never say it"

He paused behind her, leaned close, front to her backside, rubbed his cock against her ass in that sexy dress The dress looked every bit as good on her as he’d known it would, clinging to every lush curve Felt good too Breath hissed between his teeth at the contact; it was so excruciatingly pleasurable that it burned He sucked in a sharp breath and yanked hiain like that it would be all over