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“Definitely not to ht erthe sexual kind
If only With this avenging archangel, she was safer in that arena than she was in her currently all-feht if any ever was
He pressed the remote and the door opened with the whirr of a perfectly oiledits weather-beaten appearance
Before he turned away, he belatedly co”
You can say that again, she thought, watching the receding streetlights paint shadows across his back as he forged deeper into the darkness, a sorcerer becohts off On purpose, she was sure, to rattle her Punishing her for behaving so “inappropriately”?
Too bad for him it wouldn’t work Not only did she have no fear of darkness, it was true she’d fear nothing with hie of one another that closer interaction would have fostered, but she did know the essential him His essence had touched hers so profoundly that he starred in her very firstto call him out on his efforts to intiht, Rashid Only so neither of us breaks a toe against a cabinet or soht Not a sudden burst, but a dawning of golden, sourceless illuradual her vision didn’t have to adjust to take in her surroundings A vast, 50-foot-ceilinged warehouse-to-loft conversion There was one word for it: Spartan She now truly knehat the wordSparse, utilitarian, austere It was also y had transfore into yet another twenty-first-century Westernized hybrid Every line and surface, and what little furniture there as steeped in Az the stamp of its authenticity in a muted palette of desert-inspired tones
“Of course” She realized she’d said that out loud when he turned to her “Now that I’ve seen this place, I realize nothing else—and nothing less—could have suited you Orcontained you”
“Contained aze swept the place before he leveled that bone- stare back on her “Quite the bottle, isn’t it?”
A laugh burst out of her “You do fit the genie profile Especially with the way youout of his coat, he e space “I’m sure that satisfies your sense of dramatic license farher coat as well and following him farther into the room, she faced him as he stopped before a fireplace and held out her ars he’d picked up “I’ll do that You sit down”
“So it’s not ‘ju?”
A chuckle bubbled out as she tried to i any of that But the funny actions only turned to licentious irinned “Maybe And maybe I’ll ask you to jus in a single bound But even superheroes need to put their feet up once in a while As you’re going to do tonight”
Without a shadow of a ss and left her to start a fire He sank down on top of a woolen keli on one of two huge co cushions, he proceeded to watch her like a black panther would conteaze made herimpulses she’d believed would be forever banked with hiht
But tonight was still here As was she And she would , she turned to hi by your size and muscle mass, you must require quite a lot of sustenance frequently It’s been almost four hours since you cary now”
It could have been the play of firelight But she could swear an obsidian fla in the depths of his eyes