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Jade cringed in his arms “Oh, my God She can hear us?”

“Vampire senses Her study is on the opposite side of h away, but still…”

Jade slipped fro”

“She’s very discreet, I assure you”

“Davian—I wasn’t exactly low key,” Jade muttered as she climbed back into bed

“Nor was I,” he said as he followed Draping his arainst him, he added, “I’m sure she’s ecstatic I finally made a move She’s tired of my sexual frustration”

Jade shifted in his ar Don’t you have your pick of the kingdom?”

“You just don’t get it, do you?” He coaxed her down to hihteen, I didn’t want anyone else”

“Are you telling ht years?”

His fingertips drew circles on her upper arht”

“And you expect me to believe that?”

“When you’ve lived two hundred and thirty-five years, Jade, eight constitute mere minutes in an immortal’s existence”

“So tonight really only equates to nanoseconds for you?”

He considered his response Not that he worried about giving too much away He’d done that already, hadn’t he? “The entire tied in ether is much too brief”

“Well, I guess there are some similarities between demons and humans It’s much too brief for me too” She burrowed under the covers, still in his embrace “Tell me more about the 1800s”