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“Wait a minute, your death? And what do youyou dinner”

A dull red flush stained his cheeks and he glanced away “I wanted to taste food again, even

if I could not eat it It was delicious Thank you”

“You’re welco dead? You seem pretty alive to me”

“No I died in 1967, in a…boating accident But it was not ement was made When the terms are fulfilled, I will resume my life” His eyes clouded with the same pain she’d seen earlier “A life, rather Not mine Mine ended I had been told but I did not truly understand”

Saed to co so to his revelations herself She’d just made love to someone who’d died before she was born How freaky was that?

He traced patterns on her skin with one fingertip “I aive you the pleasure you requested when you invoked in at dawn”

She shivered, i a day devoted to carnal exploration If it were anything like what he’d done to her tonight before they finished, she’d be the one as dead

“I’htly against his scowling lips, silencing his unvoiced objection “You’re trapped by ic but I’m trapped too By bonds of duty and devotion I have to take care ofher to her hairdresser’s, to lunch and to go shopping for a toy”

There was so about Master Giacoled to remember, but could recall only that it was important

He pulled her fingertip into his er Sa, and stopped trying to think Tomorrow could take care of itself

He licked and nibbled his way up her finger, to the palue along the sensitive paths of nerve endings she’d never known she had Then he , kissing and nibbling, his featherlight touches made her writhe in ecstasy

“Is there no one else to care for her?” he whispered against her flushed skin

Care for who? Oh right Her ency, my sister But she has her own family I can’t call her just to spend the day with you”

“What of cousins?” His lips nibbled a trail up to the inside of her elbow