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"Tellhis nose up ?" He pressed a kiss to my jawline and my eyes slipped closed for a moment "Would it be so easy to leave ," I mumbled I couldn’t tell hi It felt too serious and I wasn’t ready for serious But the thought of never seeing hiht about being with Aiden in some exotic country and hoonderful it’d be, but Dorian would always be in the back ofas my heart beat He had woven his way into my life and crept into ht now, but I could be in his life in one way or another I just needed to be close to hiht, his disbelief written all over his face His relief atcaused a frenzy of e Dorian as nothing more than a man with a permanent hard-on? Those sorts of men preferred the woman to leave I honestly believed that if I left, it would hurt Dorian It took seeing his face now to believe all of his previous words

"The loss is greater than the gain," I told him

His lips turned up in a wide s to hih his nose but it was a beautiful sound

"You’d face the stor to accept you?" His words were so loasn’t sure whether the question was forI a down at me All of the jubilance left his face as he turned serious "You’ll always be safe with me, Gwen"

I didn’t need to hear his promise to know that it was true He mademy face

"I know, but I er"

His mouth covered mine, his lips hard and possessive An aredin the air His hair was silk againststrands

"I’ve always had a boot caet it; I’"

He pressed one last kiss toreevaluating our relationship"

With a shrug, I bent down, picked up the dagger’s box and headed down the hall

"Bend your knees," Dorian ordered We had only been practicing for an hour, but already I could feel the sweat trickling downin protest as I crouched into position Iyht foreplay was letting the ladies watch hih s

"Now throw it!"

Flinging h the air and towards Eddie’s head The blade caught the glow of the overhead light, glinting like liquid silver as it sailed across the roo with his ar when the knife cut through his neck The dagger passed through hison its hilt

"You need to ai for ht, this position will give you the correct trajectory" I couldn’t focus on anything except the coolness of his fingertips burning a trail down ht about the angle of ain"

I walked over and snatched the dagger frori forced to act as ainst his will

"We’ve been at this for a while," Eddie coirl can’t hit the broad side of a barn"

"I did hit ht spot," I said in defense "It’s not as easy as Dorian is ues in the forehead, and because Dorian didn’t wantat a distance and just throwing the blade would be efficient What he didn’t take into account was the fact that I was born with the coordination of cross-eyed rasped the blade, the dagger always sailed too low or veered off its mark Still, I was stone-cold deter

"Here" Dorian held out his hand for the blade I placed the hilt into his awaiting pal myself for another lecture, or lesson as Dorian called his constant raies But hadn’t I asked for this?

"WatchDorian released an annoyed huff, holding up one finger as he exited the gy about so Dorian made me smile It was just so bizarre that Death had friends who called to chat