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"Scared?"

Axwelle stopped short, and the glower that hit his face low "Of what"

"You tell o upstairs"

With a curse under his breath, he took the steps two at a tied behind hie shoulders

"Nothing"

"FYI, if you’re going to lie to try to get me off the scent, at leastfor a Band-Aid because ‘nothing’ happened"

"It’s none of your business, how ’bout that And Christ, I’ you people that"

"What’s that supposed tohouse," he commented as they came to the second floor and he looked at the hall that went off in both directions "How many rooms?"

"Really" She put her hands on her hips "That’s your next best?"

His stare locked on hers, and as he leaned in, his incredible size and power registered--but not in a threatening way

More in a way that made her eyes flick down to hisabout it to you," he said "If you want to play nurse, that’s fine But just because you’re insisting onme up, doesn’t mean you’re due some kind of explanation Are we clear?"

Elise looked at hi off on a seriously wrong foot And if she lost hiive her father an excuse to rethink his decision

Answer the daround

"I don’t kno many rooms we have" She cursed under her breath as she went to the left "Maybe forty? Fifty? So like that My father built it in nineteen ten"

She was very aware of hi that body of his His presence His aura

In fact, she found herself walking differently, her hipsShe had no idea how she knew this … but she was sure he was ain, it was exactly what she did--what she was doing--to hi the way in, she resisted the urge to Vanna White the exotic objects in the room, like the bed!, the vanity!, this beautiful desk!, the wallpaper!

What was it about physical attraction that turned even the s idiots?

"My bath is in here" She indicated the way through the open double doors Like he ht have no frickin’ clue what the marble space was "Coave her a wide-angle view of him as he stopped in between the doorja to wipe the blood off" His eyes lassed-in shower in the corner, the banks of s that were dark "I’ll take care of it"