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Only You

After Tor smiled at me, his eyes moved overroom Then his saze dropped back toout of bed?”

I didn’t have time for Tor’s ominous look There was a shitload ofto me, Cora had hooked up with my world’s Noctorno and we had a date to have dinner with et

“Where have you been?” I asked, ers still curled into his wet shirt

“Out in your world,” he answered and before I could say ht, love, it’s colorless”

“I know, but –”

“Gray So bloody wet And it’s loud”

“I know, listen –”

“And griain, “so ood”

“Tor, I know, but –”

“And so ods, hideous”

“Tor!” I shouted

“What?” he asked

“We need to talk, we have probleether as his arms curled me protectively closer

“What problems?”

I opened my mouth to speak and didn’t knohere to start So I asked, “Have you eaten?”

“No,” he replied

I pulled away, ordering, “Change out of those wet clothes, I’ll na sandwich and we’ll talk”

“A what?”

That’s when I lost it

“Just change out of your clothes!” I cried

The instant I finished my last word, his hand cupped e, Cora, calht?” he said softly

I looked in his eyes, sucked in breath and nodded, hating that his quiet, powerful strength could cal to admit that it could

His hand dropped away and he sauntered intobread and frying bologna when he walked in wearing another, more faded pair of jeans (that were, incidentally, even hotter on hihter than the other one and seeing as I’d never seen hihtness against his tanned, olive-toned skin looked so good, it struck ether when his eyes dropped to the frying pan and he asked, “What, by the gods, is that?”

“Bologna,” I answered, he looked atto him so I explained, “It’s a kind of meat”

“It’s round,” he observed with barely concealed distaste

“Uh… yes”

“Meat is not round,” he declared

Well, he was na?” I asked, he held my eyes for a second then he crossed his arainst the counter which I took as an affirna, snatched the toast out when it popped up and started talking

“I think Cora is in trouble I found a big stash of money in my TV cabinet A lot of it, Tor Too al way I found out she’s playing poker and I think that’s how she’s getting it”