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“Oh, there’s no danger of that happening,” sheher lightly on the lips She raised both hands to his shoulders, and then he leaned down and picked her up, striding down the hallway toward his cabin

“I’ve decided to have lea it, I won’t let you go”

“Do you see ?” she asked archly “Walk faster”

Josiah drifted in the pod, waiting for his people to coet him It would be another thirty minutes at least before they arrived He’d waited to send for theh tiet away

He wondered for the thousandth tiht for his survival, and he’d never hesitated to kill an enemy Still, it was hard to think of Jerred as an ene infor on him—known it for the past year at least But until now he hadn’t worried about it

He knew Jerred, and could predict what he’d do with the inforh He’d known it if froed for him, and now he knehat it was Giselle It was a pity, really, that he’d had to take them prisoner at all Fortunately, his own people had ferreted the spy out, allowing hiot the infor his sources on the station

He twisted in the sht to have it stocked with a bottle of his favorite wine

The wait bored hi about Jerred and his new mate

It re in his life

Chapter Eleven

Giselle leaned up on one arm to look down on Jerred He slept the sleep of the totally exhausted His loveht before had been fierce, as if he needed to pull her inside him and keep her there

She understood; she felt the saain There were so ed to ask It was a bit startling that even after all they’d been through, they still had no ement and that neither of them had any hold on the other If what Josiah had said was true, they never would have anything ht was almost too horrible to bear—yet she also kneith certainty that she wouldn’t go back She was glad that Jerred had walked into Manya’s, and glad that he’d fixated on her She wished things could have progressed more naturally than they had, but still, her life was better with him than without

She leaned over and kissed his shoulder, enjoying his texture She let her tongue steal out to lick him He tasted salty, which ht before

He stirred and groaned as she rubbed her hands lightly over his chest Little bu at it forher into the circle of his arms “I missed you,” he said softly, eyes still closed

“When?” she asked, gigging “I’ve been here all night”