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Edge felt the familiar mix of amusement and exasperation with Sa crowd Coupled with the feel of her body against hiathered into a sensation alns of heatstroke It was probablywood of the benches as people alternately craned and cowered He didn’t like the thought that ainst hi beneath his feet

As if aware of his annoyance with hiuish, half-co—sent the heat the rest of the way to his head, staining the inside of his skin as if he, too, were encased in stiff wrappings that were beginning to curl and flake away in the heat There was a stinging sensation along his cheekbones and instinctively he brushed at it, his palhness of stubble He re because he’d woken so late And he remembered why

The crowd rocked on its feet as Pettifer gave a cry of alar a s the chest

‘Behold! The Sacred Scarab! Bearer of Life and Death! Messenger of the Gods!’

‘What twaddle,’ Edge growled under the oohs and ahhs of the spectators and Sa his breath and contracting all hisfist

‘Can you not stop fidgeting?’

‘Is that what I’h as she leaned forward ‘I’et a better look What do you think he is about to do with those peculiar scissors?’

I don’t care, Edge almost said aloud Her behind was perfectly positioned now and the blasted wo both of her hips In the unlikely event that anyone looked around, they would see a spectacle quite as titillating as the desiccated relic of aunveiled on the table

He truly no longer cared, not aboutdesecrated or about frauds and barely about his idiot of a brother at thehis breathing even, which was ludicrous One shouldn’t have to concentrate on breathing It was al of one’s heart, but both those ani faulty at the moment, out of step and rhythm

His other ani raht they had more than amply satisfied their carnal needs in bed He shouldn’t be desperate to get her back there so soon; or at least not so fiercely

Damn Sam

His hands tightened on her hips, he wasn’t certain whether he meant to hold her there or ers sliding between his for the briefest ofHe wanted to lace his hands with hers so that when he ainst him it would be their motion, not just his