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"No, we go on our way, keeping up our guard lest our pursuer not lose interest" A quick glance at his wife "Does this unnerve you?"
"Unnerve me? Not in the least In truth, I find the whole situation rather exciting" Aurora sat up straighter, her entire face aglow "I feel like an especially sly fox during the hunt, one who knows he's swifter andhim"
Julian's eyes glittered, with hulad the thrill of the chase enthralls you so Nevertheless, soleil, let : never become overconfident Overconfidence breeds recklessness"
"And recklessness breeds failure?"
"In ht Aurora's hand to his lips and pressed a hot, openmouthed kiss to her palm "There is, however, one place where you can always unleash that enticing recklessness of yours—and be greeted with naught but success"
His husky tone, his pointed caress found their ertips caressed his jaw, his mouth "Odd, I seem to recall many places where you welcome my particular brand of recklessness"
Julian sucked in his breath, his expression a dizzying coer and stark a—our current predica We're in the ht now is pull off the road and bury ic we make with our bodies"
Everything inside Aurora melted, slid down to her toes "What if I were to entice you?"
"You'd succeed So don't It would endanger your life—so I've vowed never to do" With a quick hard kiss to her knuckles, Julian released her "But once we're safely within those walls, once we've found that bloody book…"
"You offer a splendid incentive"
"An incentive—and a whole lot more" With a slap of the reins, Julian sped onward
"Morland's library is a good dealho of the books reported on anied with relief "But our task here should be far easier than it was at Pembourne There we had to scrutinize an army of texts, lest one of the countless books that ht Whereas here—" She sighed, squatting down beside the lower section of shelves on the far wall "—I'ion, all of which we can elinificantly"
"Perhaps too significantly," Julian lance, I don't see a single book on falcons"
"We'll obviously have to delve more deeply"