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And that got her even hotter

But then he was cursing and putting her back from him "Damn it I pro over here?"

Silas smiled, but then went on a pace Which lasted all of about four steps away to the sofa With his back to her, his hands disappeared in front of his hips and she could guess what he was rearranging

She closed her eyes and swayed at the thought of touching him

"This isn’t a booty call"

Ivie opened her lids and discovered he’d turned back around "You know, I’ Very vernacular"

His expression grew serious "I don’t understand"

"Vernacular? Like, common talk"

"Not that" He came back over to her "I don’t understand how I can miss someone I just ertips over his jaw, his chin…his jugular She had to consciously stop herself fro about what his vein would be like If she i hiain

"It’s called infatuation," she joked "Also known as the cheation of the species"

As a shadow passed over his face, she felt badly "I’ to be romantic and I just ruined it? I’ht as well know about , she started to wonder if she had ruined things before they’d begun But then he shook his head "I love your honesty And I feel like I owe some back to you"

Now, her heart beat hard, but not from sexual anticipation "Is this where you tell me you’re actually mated--"

"Not at all I swear on the soul of my dearly departed mahmen, le and seeing no one except you But can I kiss you again? Because that is the only thing I want to concentrate on right now"

She laughed "Yes Please"

They ended up on the couch She had no idea how they got there

One ainst hi her into the cushions And then, when she parted her thighs, he accepted the invitation, settling hi at her core through their clothes

Rolling her hips, she arched into his body, and the groan he let out registered as a caress that went down into her abdolazed and hyper-focused "Ivie…"

There was a question in the way he said her naht, because he was an aristocrat, was that he was asking The Big One

"I’in" She brushed his hair back, the strands thick and cool between her fingers "I don’t knohether it matters to you, but either way, that’s what’s up and I am not ashain, that is I hope that doesn’t hed "After three centuries, you’d have to be a eunuch"

"I haven’t been celibate But I don’t have a rotating door to my bedroom"

"If you look down that hall"--she nodded to the left--"you’ll notice that I don’t have one of those as part ofelse we have in common What else can there be?"

"I’ht now"

He closed his eyes "Feht?"

"No Never that I…it’s what I like best about you--and letBecause there is a lot I like about you"

His eyes did another of that roa they tended to do, as if he wanted to ht have been snow-globing their tiht I loved him," she blurted "Just so you know"