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He stood behind me and hismy skin, which heated up beneath his touch I bent my head backward so he could clai I knew, he was pulling me across the deck, down the staircase and into our bedroo each other, and then made love between the silk sheets

Each tiic, but there was soht evenOur first time had been on a boat That beautiful boat he had constructed for my birthday…

I’d been under the impression that the first time was always aard, but it hadn’t felt like that with Caleb He’d taken me as he’d said he would He’d made me feel owned, possessed, cherished, and he’d left no roo so intimate with a vampire, I’d expected to feel hs, I had barely felt discoular human, or, perhaps more likely, the pleasure I found in Caleb’s ar to feel much else

Caleb often tensed up, and I could sense what a struggle it still was for his hadn’t yet broken my skin There were tiet his strength, but I was so used to Caleb being gentle around me that, if I was honest with hness and reveled in his abandon

Hours passed, and by the ti had arrived

I lay breathless against his still intertwined He ran a broad hand down ainst ainst his cool body

"Now you knohy I married you," I breathed back "I needed a portable A/C unit"

His chest vibrated as he chuckled

I i far too hot to be so close to hi a vampire meant that there was rarely a tih and nestledof his heart, I looked out of the tintedat the sun’s first rays reflecting in the waves

The question that Claudia had askedher and Yuri’s welco to turn into a vampire, Rose?"

It was a question that had been at the back of my mind ever since Caleb had proposed to me Of course, I’d always expected that I would turn as soon as