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So did she “Simon…” What could she say? Her eyes drifted over hi shoulders Muscled chest Slim hips So sexy So—

Siht “You—you caht I’d stop Grim”

A nod

“But if you just wanted to be free of hi yourself betweenEveryone “I can take care of myself, you know You don’t have to juet a little dicey” A very bad habit he seemed to have there

He snapped the button on the jeans Yanked up the zipper Denied her the too pleasing sight of his still aroused flesh “I was protecting you because you’rethe sheet with her death grip

His eyes narrowed and he stalked around the edge of the bed “You want to clear the air about what’s happening here? Okay Fine”

Uh, maybe she should yank on sorabbed her arainst him “This is a fk-off talk, isn’t it? One dressed up in some kind of nice, polite chitchat”

His eyes turned to black

“I never told you to fk off,” she htened around her “I protected you because you were inning” He kissed her, hard, deep, and had her niles tightening, her sex clenching, and her toes curling Oh, yeah “Mine,” he gritted again “I wasn’t going to let anyone—Grim, your demon friend, or even your witch—stand between us”

No one was between them now Only the thin sheet

“The start was screwed-up” His chin lifted “I’ that Yeah, I lied Yeah, I tricked you But I’m also the man as ready to die for you I’m the—”

“You said you loved littered down at her

Dee took a deep breath and tasted hi love you forever

Until Siuys would clai

He licked his lips “I did”

“You meant it?” And she meant for her words to come out as a stateers curling around her jaw “I et her help The pressure on her chest eased and warain” Because she could be stubborn, too Neither one of thery

Her heart sla his vamp powers, he had to feel the sudden kick She sed “Th-that’s good—”

“No, it’s not” Definitely angry “It’s shit It’syou, every da you”

“I feel the—”

“I want to h Because you knohat, Dee? You don’t laugh You don’t And you should, babe Cause you’re beautiful when you sh, I bet you’d take my breath away”

He’d just taken hers

“I want you naked, yeah Hell yeah But I want to hold you in theWant to talk to you in the darkness I want to look at all the days that are co them with you Because if I know that, then forever sure doesn’t seem like such a bad deal”