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“Nothing”
“Did I make a pass at you?”
“You tried, but you passed out”
He drew a pained breath through his teeth “I’m sure that was iain?”
He met her eyes and didn’t need to hear her answer to know that he had “Well…”
“I’ in the world you wanted to hear”
She bit her lip “Not the very last thing,” she said “I wouldn’t want to hear that this cheese is oat’s milk, for example I’ve seen what that comes out of”
He tried to s to hear her say she loved him
Lara touched his face and he looked at her Her expression was serious when she said, “Hearing those words from you wasn’t horrible”
He leaned closer She didn’t draay Instead, she closed her eyes He closed his eyes, too, just before his lips brushed hers Her kiss tasted of heaven and s the upper hand He allowed her to kiss hi what they wanted to do—draw her closer, stroke her skin She pulled away after a moment and leaned back to look at him
“What I wouldn’t give for a toothbrush right about now,” she said
Reece lifted his hand and huffed a breath into his pal it a hesitant sniff “Do I offend?”
“I didn’t say that You know, the things I miss most are all found in a bathroom”
“I think they use teeth scraper things to clean their teeth I’ll find you one after we eat”
“How long e be on the run?” She asked, looking weary
“I don’t know Until we coet the other half of the aht also have control over our leaping If you can decipher the hieroglyphics on the other half, that is”
“I have solyphics, but I’d need access tocomplex”
“You were the one who deciphered the symbols on this half,” he told her and lifted the amulet to look at the tiny symbols The amulet was the reason Lara had been killed He wished now that he’d never unearthed it Wished he’d never involved Lara But you can’t change the past He was hoping it was possible to change her future, by living in the past
Lara touched the flat stone, tracing the ers “Some of them are rather faded I’m surprised I translated them correctly”
“You’re brilliant,” he said, his eyes shifting to her face She took his breath away Always had, and undoubtedly alould “And beautiful”
“Thank you You’ve got a pretty-boy, tough-guy thing going on How do you pull that off?”
“Lots of practice”
“I see And least you forget, I’ Cut some more cheese”
“Trust me, sweetheart You don’t want me to cut the cheese”
She groaned “When will you get better jokes?”
“What do you ood one”
She quirked an eyebrow at him “Juvenile and corny,” she assured him
“I suppose you could do better”
“Not on an empty stomach”
He cut the cheese into several bite-sized chunks, then carved up the sausage as well He tore the bread in half and then sat lotus style on the bed with the plate between them They ate in silence for several moments
“So we just need to get the other half of the ao home?”
“I don’t think we can ever go back to our own time,” he told her “Despite what the newspaper says, your death wasn’t a random murder Someone is after you”
“Do you knoho it is?”
“Sort of,” he ad people found out about the power of the amulet”
“Like who?”