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He felt her shudder with longing beneath his touch before she was abruptly pulling away to gaze at him ide, dilated eyes

"Are you insane?" she rasped, pressing her fingers to her swollen lips

Caught off guard by her sharp retreat, Dante gritted his teeth and shoved his hands roughly into the pockets of his jeans It was a grih his taut body

A swift yank, a few heated kisses, and he would have her on the dusty floor and himself sheathed deep in her body

Thankfully sanity slowly forced its way through his hazed arded her with aus both killed I couldn’t allow you to call out to those cops," he explained in sether "You think that deo police force?"

"No, I think the second you atteinative cops that we’re being pursued by vicious demons and hellhounds, we’ll find ourselves locked in a lovely padded room If we aren’t first tossed into jail for the murder of Selena I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not be strapped in a straitjacket or offered a cell with a spectacular view of thesunrise"

Her expression hardened, as if she longed to argue with his logic Then wrapping her arh

"Fine And what is your brilliant solution? To crawl through these disgusting alleys for eternity?"

He gave a shrug, , I hope I do know a place, but I must be certain that we’ve shaken our bloodthirsty friends"

"God, what a s to shorten as the lingering shudders of desire tortured his body

"For once, lover, we are in full agreement"

Chapter 4

Two hours later, Abby was spent

She had endured a house exploding, the violent death of her e chased by demons (one of which she had killed with her own hands), hours of walking through vile-s alleys, and a kiss by a vampire And to be honest, she wasn’t sure which unnerved her theweariness invaded her entire being

Her feet hurt, she s was clouding herdehastly creatures who had seeo had seeht have cos behind a silent vampire

Perhaps this was hell, she theorized Perhaps she had indeed died in the h darkened, demon-invested alleys for all eternity

No, not hell, a treacherous voice whispered Not if she were to be offered an eternity of kisses froeous va need

Her heart skipped a renegade beat before she was giving a sharp shake of her head

Obviously she was beco delirious Vampire kisses God No doubt the toxic stench had driven her over the edge Enough was enough

"Dante" Co to a halt, she folded her aro any farther"

With clear reluctance, Dante stopped at the corner of the alley and turned to ht in her throat

Bathed in the dull golden light of the streetla raven hair His fiercely elegant features His silver eyes that shier It all combined to create a vision that was bound to weaken the knees of any wohts, Dante reached out to grasp her hand

"It is just a bit farther, I proed softly

Her expression only hardened at his words ’You’ve said that for the past half hour"

His lips twitched icked a"

"Ugh" She leaned against the brick building, too tired to care that she was only adding to the layer of grierms? "I should have staked you when I had the chance"