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‘Aside froels saw you with s off Beliel They think you’re traveling in the coels" That’s enough to coel killer now, for which the penalty is an autoirl’

I think about that for aI can do about it? ‘But we all look alike to theht? How can they even tell us apart? They all look the same to me They’re all so darned perfect in every way – perfect Olympian bodies, perfectly beautiful faces, even perfect hair If it wasn’t for you, I’d think that angels were all totally interchangeable’

‘You mean because I’m beyond perfect?’

‘No Because you’re so humble’

‘Humility’s overrated’

‘So is clear self-assessment, apparently’

‘Real warriors don’t stand for psychobabble’

‘Or for rational thinking’

He glances at s

‘No, not that rational, I admit’ Raffe stands up and puts out a hand to rab his hand, and he pulls me up

‘Fine If that will quiet you down’

We walk into my room, and I crawl onto the bed I lie down on top of the covers, thinking he’s , he cli?’ I ask

He lies his cheek on the pillow next toa nap’

‘You’re not going downstairs?’

‘Nope’

‘What about the settee?’

‘Too uncoht you said you’ve slept on rocks in the snow’

‘I have That’s why I sleep on soft beds whenever I can’

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I expect hi quickly turns deep and slow

Heconstantly on red alert, he’s still recovering froery I can’t i to sleep beside hi with the war of the bees near the plants below sounds distant and soothing The buttery sunshine glows through htand end up facing Raffe I can’t help but open ainst his cheek Long and curved, they would be the envy of every girl The line of his nose is strong and straight His lips soft and sensual

Sensual? I alle What kind of word is that to pop intosensual before

His muscular chest rises and falls in a steady rhyth to stroke his smooth muscles

I s and flip over to my other side