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"My life is now corin formed "Not yet, but I can help you with that"

Her eyes rolled so hard she was surprised they didn’t fall out the back of her head "I’m curious Would you have checked this out if I hadn’t?"

"All of us are used to the weird noises," he explained, still standing in front of her "We’ve spentnothing We usually just ignore them now"

"But your sister--"

"I would’ve checked this out," he cut in "Your presence is like a nice little bonus"

Julia ignored that "Have you been hearing footsteps co time?"

He didn’t answer ihout the house"

"But what about Madeline’s rooh histo sound, but I don’t re from that rooht my father died," he finished "I heard footsteps then Didn’t find anything"

Well, that was interesting andand suspicious She hated thinking that, but ouldn’t? "And there’s no way it could be Gabe or Devlin?"

He huffed out a dry laugh "Like I said, it’s not theht about the open doors in her room She had to have left them unlocked and not closed properly, but the footsteps? Maybe it was the house settling Because if it weren’t one of the brothers and the whole ghost thing was ridiculous, it had to be tricks of the et back to bed"

"But I have a secret to tell you, Ms Hughes"

The good Lord only knehat kind of secrets he had Julia stepped around hiain

"There’s a reason why you’ve been so successful in avoiding me," he said, and she looked up at him sharply Hadn’t this conversation ended before they even made it to Madeline’s roo it"

She al, almost took the bait "Lucian--"

He moved so fast she didn’t have a chance to react

One second he was a little behind her and then suddenly her back was flush with the wall and he was right in front of her, his hands planted on either side of her head

Holy crap

There were just a few inches between their bodies, but she swore she could feel the heat he was throwing off as he lowered his head so they were eye level Julia’s breath caught as she pressed back against the wall

"Da the hair at her te off your lips"

So akin to anticipation skated over her skin "I really, really need you to back off"

The hue of his eyes deepened as he tilted his head, lining their mouths up in a way that would be perfect for thehts started swirling around in her head

Would this be so bad? He claiht out there, as blunt as hu with theall that bare skin and those lips All she had to do was move her head forward an inch and thenthen she just needed to live a little Plunge into whatever dark promises those sea-blue eyes of his offered

Bizarrely, she didn’t feel threatened Not at all Even given everything that had gone doith Adaer

She’d felt daring instead

This wasn’t like her Not at all

Just like taking him back to her apartment wasn’t like her