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Eli slid even closer and pressed his palm over mine "But no heartbeat"

I rose, slipped uided hi his neck, I clis on either side of him and locked them behind his back He sat silent, completely still, and I knew that if he did have a heart that beat, it’d be pounding like crazy right now His hands slid to my hips as his eyes searched ht h for the both of us," I whispered against his mouth "Just don’tkill me, okay?" I shoved my hands into his silky hair and kissed him softly, and he sat still while I explored his mouth I sucked his bottoue, and the unshaven scruff on his jaw against my palm turned me on and made me slide closer I slid my hand down his throat, and he ran his hands over ainst him, and deepened the kiss My razed mine, and his mouth moved erotically over my lips, and everywhere his hands touched made me burn for him

"Did you mean it when you said I was yours?" he asked quietly

I looked into his eyes "You know I did"

Eli stood, and although he held on to me, I slid froh his, and tugged, urging him to my room He wordlessly followed, but he pulled me close while alked, ers over ainst him; the feel of his hardness pressed into the sainst him, stretched my arms up, and clasped them around his neck His hands slipped upward, skimmed slowly over the buttery smooth softness of h the thin leather it caused sensations to ripple through me, turned me on even more His mouth teased the skin at my throat, and my heart pounded with anticipation I completely trusted him I wholly wanted hiainst hiotten to power down the iPod station in the shop, and h the ventilation, and darkness had now claiht played against our features, obscuring full detail, leaving everything else up to other senses: touch, taste, scent I lost myself in Eli; to me, he wasn’t an immortal; he wasn’t a vampire He wasnecessary

"Eli," I said, unaware I’d even spoken his naainst him while his hands explored me; with tortured slowness he pulled the laces loose at the bust ofthem My flesh turned warm, then hot, and his hands trailed down her, caressing roaned in my ear; I nearly cah, and over a little ers slipped first into the sle of silk, then eased slowly into ainst his chest and an to seize, but he asm I almost touched myself, I was so frantic with desire and need He stilled ainst , and it almost didn’t work But Eli lifted rabbed three pillows and stacked them behind me, pushed my dress up overin hs and pushed them apart, and as his head lowered and he tasted ue, I exploded, sparks went off behind h his hair and held on His fingers gripped my hips and tasted deeper, and asm was co to have him inside me, and I followed him off the bed

This time, my need was too powerful to rein in--he’d done it; he’d caused it I couldn’t help it We traded places I pushed him backward onto the bed; I peeled out of s as I deftly unfastened each button on his fly I felt savage, feral, and nothing and no one could satisfy me except Eli With a fierceness that surprised even him, I pulled off his jeans, only to find him bare beneath I looked at hilassy black orbs in the darkness I kept aze on his as I slid my hand over his hardness, rock hard and sroaned, and it ain I couldn’t take h over his, then the other; I straddled hi rasped me and turned me onto my back, and followed h mine, and lifted my arms over my head

"Do you trust me?" he asked, his voice thick, raspy

"Yes," I answered in a hoarse whisper "I do"

In the most sensual move I’d ever experienced in my life, Eli wrapped his aran to ether, and he asm I’d been denied twice exploded fully and my body jerked with uncontrolled spasms as I clutched desperately to Eli His body moved with mine, and I felt his shudders as if they were my own He slowed; he stopped; he didn’t htly around my body He lay very, very still