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“Yes, but I wasn’t exactly low key,” she 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?”

Shaking his head, he said, “You just don’t get it, do you?” He coaxed her back down and held her tight “Frohteen, I didn’t want anyone else”

“Are you telling ht years?”

“Until tonight”

“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 mind”

“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 inMuch too short”

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

He did When she drifted off to sleep, he stared up at the do shadows across it He hadn’t consulted his clock since he’d taken his shower, but deduced it was so Perhaps two or three hours before dawn

The slayers would come sooner than he cared to ade was only a few e and across the river, actually visible froh she were a ain Completely out of his reach

He contemplated this, and his actions of late, as the hours slid by He didn’t need ive in to it with his one and only chance to hold Jade in his arms

The knock on his door cah he deduced it was close to noon at that point