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“Don’t wait up,” he said to the people in the lodge

“I said put me down!”

Reece carried her into his chambers and closed the door He set her to her feet

“I didn’t mean to hit you,” she said at once

He drew her against his chest “Where e?”

Chapter 5

Lara’s blue eyes were as wide as saucers as she stared up at hie shadows across her face Reece took her chin in his hand and brushed his thuainst hi his breath Memories of her face when lost in the throes of passion flitted through histo the perspiration moistened skin of her face and neck, heavy-lidded eyes locked with his, mouth open as she breathed his naed Eyes open yet unfocused, pupils dilated, blood trickling from the corner of her e floor beside her car Her skin ice-cold beneath his searching fingers No pulse No breath No Lara

No Lara

A vice clenched Reece’s heart and he cradled the back of her head, tugging her against his chest as he fought tears She was here She was breathing He could save her He could Carl didn’t knohat he was talking about It was possible Reece would make it possible He refused to live without her She was everything to him True, she didn’t know hi he could do about that besides get to know her again Slowly Though everything inside his to be as they had been is more slowly

“Reece?”

Her soft voice, s of tenderness through hied to say Don’t leave ain I love you, Lara I love you He’d already said ‘I love you’ once It was too soon for her to hear it again He had to be patient Take his time Slon

“Yes?” His voice sounded thick with emotion, even to him Damn

“Where did you get that amulet?”

Surprised by her question, he chuckled Apparently, she wasn’t as lost in ros as he was

“I was on an expedition in Cairo”

She pulled out of his grasp and stepped away He fisted his hands to prevent hiainst hireat sex they shared, he wanted her love And if he pushed her, he ain She wasn’t an easy woman

“It was unearthed in a dig,” he said “The two pieces were found together, but it was cracked down the reat price because it was broken”

“So you have both pieces?”

Reece shook his head “Carl has the other half That’s how he keeps following me His half of the amulet is drawn to mine Apparently, he leaps a few moments after me, but there is some sort of delay seen on the other end It usually takes him a few days to appear I leapt more than seventy times before I returned to the m

odern era What’s been a few hours for hiht months for me When I arrived in your time, I trekked halfway across the world to see you I alain before Carl arrived”

“Is this really a good idea, Reece? I mean if I am meant to die, then maybe—”

He stepped closer to her, gripping both of her arms in his hands “Don’t say it, Lara Don’t even think it You are not meant to die I won’t let it happen”

He kissed her heatedly, the taste of her lips intoxicating All too soon she pulled away She held a hand up between them and refused to look at him “Don’t”