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"Sod of a bitch," he cursed, wiping at the blood just before the wound healed

I cracked the whip again, catching his left ear

"Saonna" The whip split the top of his right ear open this ti

I snickered and lashed the whip again He yelped as it ripped through the sleeve of his top and sliced the skin of his forearm His expression said ‘fine then’

A spray of electric sparks abruptly caht, sla a protective shield in place The sparks bounced back at Jared but he leapt in the air and did a perfect summersault overhi the ball hit the filing cabinet behind hiripped theh my hands and up my arms Which would have been clever had it not been for the fact that the source of ift wasn’tin the energy around h to send hiain he cursed at me

In less than the ti my arms to my sides I realised he had teleported hiht it was I absorbed led h to allow my hands to slide behind uilty about what I was about to do, but I was sick of hi so sexist, sick of the way he looked down on eous bloke I’d ever seen I slapped y I’d absorbed in the for heat

Jared cried out and releasednoises that were a ravation Finally he peered up at ain, or curse at rowl at rabbedonwith the floor, being slid toward him And then he was on top of ht him if there hadn’t been a blast of heat inside ; self-control gone Conscious thought gone Rest of the world gone All I are of was thiseverything froed and pulled, causing the sweetest pain Each tiue strokedThe feel of him was entirely too h I slid ainst , too long, since anyone had touchedin my vampire life or my human life caainst but Jared and the feel of him mattered I was ready to an to kiss their way down my throat and my body practically turned to liquid

Sam, I heard in my head as he scraped his teeth over the pulse in my neck I want you

And God I wanted hi cold water onvoice My conscience Then a face flashed in ht

"Joy" That was all I ht see her as a titch, but Jared was her boyfriend and here I was kissing him while she herever she was, none the wiser That was so unlike one the second his lips united with ainstit attentively "I’m not committed to her, just like I’m not committed to Daniela or Tammy"

Daniela and Tammy? There wasn’t just Joy? I didn’t knoas worse; the idea of sleeping with soht was already clai with so more than a notch on his already very busy bedpost