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"Yes," she whispered "Except hoill I knohere it is?"

"I can take care of that"

She went for her purse "I know this sounds weird, but I have a little laminated map of Caldwell in here and I--"

"Elise" When she looked up, he ss of his "Watch me"

With that, he pulled up the sleeve of his black leather jacket, exposing the inside of his wrist And then he lifted his forear his sharp canines deep into his flesh

Elise parted her lips on a shocked gasp … and then licked at them as the heady, wine-like scent of his blood rose between them

When he extended his arm toward her, he said in a low voice, "This should help you find me--wherever I am Take fros tingled as they dropped down, and she didn’t even think for a second about the twelve different protocols she was breaking if she did this: commoner!, out in public!, unwitnessed!, arousal on both sides!

Fuck it She refused to be derailed as she grabbed his ht to hera seal with her lips, she sucked on hiest intoxicant she’d ever known, the rush going through her roaned "Shit … yeah"

Abruptly, there was an unexpected shift in the power dyna to buckle, as she becaressor and he her prey

And the entire tith behind his fly

That hat she wanted, she decided as she looked at his erection

And he was not going to deny her

"I came back for my phone"

As Peyton repeated the very words he’d spoken to her, Novo smiled a little "You said that already So why aren’t you looking for it"

Hehis suit jacket "Oh It’s here after all Go figure"

"Yeah" She nursed as left of her Scotch "Where are your three friends?"

"I don’t know I don’t care"

"Selfish" She deliberately recrossed her leather-clad legs and rubbed her thighs, one atop the other She hated the way her core warmed for him "You’re a real shit, Peyton, you know that"

"Yes, I do"