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"You decided to coreat care eased herself into the chair across froht"

"Then what? You’ll move in with Lizzy?"

"I never intended to i Or at all for that matter ‘Tis for the best, I think"

"That’s it? Hi, let me take over your life for a couple weeks, turn it upside down, and ivefrom a different time, sent here to save the world from some evil witch, and I’m supposed to believe that? And that’s it?" His tone was cold, bordering on cruel

"What do you want me to say?" she cried "I know you don’t believemore I can do to convince you that what I say is true

All I can do now is thank you for helping h, is it?

"No, it isn’t," he spat out He spent the entire day going over the Magicland tapes, searching for any sign that what she said was a hoax Instead of being able to debunk her story, he found everything lining up

All of it

Her story behind her arrival, Tara McAlister’s disappearance, the question behind en Adams was He re-studied every piece of evidence so many times his eyes were crossed He came up with no other plausible explanation, except that what she had vowed to him was the truth Twisted, crazy, un-deniably insane truth A truth he had to be nuts to believe

That wasn’t the worst part

The worst part, the absolute most horrendous part was the fact that he sat in his hoet a hold of her for the last couple of hours, worrying that maybe she’d left That she’d returned to her tioodbye

He’d never desired a woman as much or with such fierceness as he did Myra What in the hell rong with hio to bed" Sheher

"No" His tone was deadpan Slowly, he backed her into the wall She wasn’t going to walk away, not yet Not when his blood pumped the way it did when she was around

Unable to forle coherent sentence, he did what he had wanted to do every night since they met He took

Chapter Nine

Hisendless shock waves through her li The si her as his oas overwhel He wanted her The way his hands roaer and more fierce than any other tih her hair and his mouth probed hers for entry, she felt his hardturned on inside her Like a switch, her body ignited into fla her

Her lips opened to his, welcoht, her hands traveled to his back, pulling him closer She hesitated briefly at his waist, not certain how much liberty she should take in his ar what she should and shouldn’t do? She felt his hands skim down her neck His thumb traced the outline of her breast

"Oh, God," she moaned when his lips left hers

It was then she realized there were no rules, only passion Their bodies reacted, guiding them to do what came naturally God help her, she wanted what came next

When she dropped her hands lower and brushed down his thighs, heat punched his sto him breathless When he filled his hand with her breast, she didn’t pull away but molded into his caress She moaned at his touch

He pulled her shirt froainst his He wanted to devour her in one long gulp His day of pacing and fear powered his adrenaline now He ed to shed her of her top