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Frowning, she watched as Jagr pulled on a black T-shirt thaton a pair of heavy black boots Still ignoring her, he collected his daggers and efficiently strapped therowled

He tucked a handgun in the waistband of his jeans "I think we’ve said all that needs to be said"

"God, you’re a pain in the ass" Throwing her hands in the air, she stormed to stand directly before him "Fine I came down here because I orried about you"

"So it was a pity…"

She’d slammed her hand across his mouth before he could throw her words back into her face

"I came down here because I orried, but that’s not the reason I seduced you"

Reaching up, he tugged her hand fro a tender circle on her inner wrist

"Are you going to tell me why?"

"Because I needed to be with you," she muttered aardly Christ She didn’t do confessionals They made her feel like a cheap extra on As the World Turns "And it had to be you Just you Nobody else" She shook her head as his lips parted "Don’t freaking askhis head, he stroked his lips over the pulse haht of visiting my lair shouldn’t send you into a panic"

A renewed sense of alar her hand free so she could step back

"It wouldn’t have if you hadn’t ht expression "Are you afraid I intend to trap you?"

"I just…" She wrapped her arms around her waist, unable to find the words for her unease "Are you certain?"

"Certain?"

"Aboutyour mate?"

"You don’t carry myherself it was all soe, beautiful, incredibly sexy predator deserved a mate who could offer untarnished, unconditional devotion Not a screwed-up Were as torn between fleeing in utter terror, and a breathless dread of never seeing hiain

"How can it even be possible? I ue since we met"

"One of fate’s little jokes, no doubt"

Ridiculously, she felt a prick of disappoint tone

"You don’t sound particularly happy"

"Should I be?" He planted his fists on his hips, thethe shirt over hisalone, I at last find the female destined to be ive h her gaze kept straying down to the enticing ripple of ht be a demon, but she was all female

Who wouldn’t be distracted?

"I don’t have issues, I just…"

Golden brows arched as she struggled to find the words "Yes?"

"I’m just not ready to think about the future"

"You’ve found Culligan What else do you have to think about but the future?"

She latched onto the first thing that ca"

He frowned "Darcy?"

"No, the one being held captive by Caine" She ht have a oyle

He’d coan from the clutches of the evil imp He was supposed to be the hero on the fair da the deirl to yet another devious va babysitter to a bad-teood or bad guy

Where was the justice in that?

And to top it off, he was stuck in a crale of trees, waiting for Salvatore to otiated the narrow trail that ran along the Mississippi River

When Salvatore had commanded Duncan to meet him at a private sanctuary less than an hour north of St Louis, Levet had held on to the hope the place would be along the lines of Hefner’s Playboy Mansion Salvatore s, and rumors were that he liked the ladies