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It felt so good to be in his arht

So deliciously wonderful

His ar her off her feet Shay moaned Pressed so close to hi desire And even s about his waist as he thrust into her

That’s what she wanted Right here Right now

And the force of that hat at last shook her back to her senses They were in the middle of a solarium where anyone could walk in on them She hadn’t lost all sense of decency

Not yet

Pulling back she struggled to find her voice "Viper"

Denied her lips Viper contented hi kisses over her upturned face

"What?"

"Why is there a witch in the library?"

"She’s here to make sure there are no nasty spells on the box"

Shay pressed her hands to his chest, refusing to be distracted as he nuzzled just below her ear

"Then shouldn’t we be in there?"

He gave her ear a sharp nip "We have plenty of time You knoitches love to create a sense of melodrama when they are about to cast a spell It will take her an hour to set her circle and place her candles, and all the other mumbo jumbo they insist upon"

She shivered "I still think we should be there I don’t want to htened about her as if he intended to wipe away any thought of witches and boxes and curses Then, with a sigh, he reluctantly loosened his grip and regarded her with an expression of sorrow

"Oh, pet, you are brutal upon my pride Do you have no romance in your soul at all?"

Shay stepped back and smoothed her sweatshirt back in place She wished it were so easy to sh her body

"Very little," she conceded

"It seems that I shall have to teach you the pleasures of seduction"

"You can teach me later" Unable to resist she reached to place a swift kiss on his cheek before ht noant to find out what’s in that box"

"Sacrebleu" With his stunning lack of anything rese tact, Levet storay-haired witch pointed a gnarled finger in the de her head fro the circle of candles

"Hold your tongue, gargoyle, or I shall stick it to the roof of your lared at the elderly wo Who invited her?"

For a ainst the wall and waited in pleasure for the witch to turn the annoying gargoyle into a newt, or a to that couldn’t speak As much as he disliked witches they occasionally had their uses But one glance at Shay’s worried expression and he was grudgingly rasp the creature by his ridiculous tail and tugging hih on her oyle was about to becoest you either close your mouth or take it soainst the wall, his gaze returning to Shay’s delicate profile "The witch does not see to open the box on the table"

"Open a box?" Levet threw his hands up and started forward "Mon dieu I can do that"

"Hold" Viper grabbed the twitching tail and hauled the gargoyle back "We are not yet certain if it is warded"

"Oh" There was aimpatiently "What’s in the box?"

"Obviously, we don’t know yet"

"Is it going to take long?"

"It will take as long as it takes"

"Are we having snacks?"

Viper’s hands clenched at his sides It was that or throttling the demon

"Levet, shut up"