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"I’o ofher, she added, "I have enough bruises froht hand over to see livid ers had left On the other side of the dreaiveyou" He took his hand away "I cannot come into your dreams anymore, little cat I cannot protect you"

"I can take care of reat if you could tellfrom the dream, ready to wake He had to keep her with hi her desire to dreaent than her desire to wake

"This is about you and me" He picked her up in his ar her down on the edge of it, spreading her legs to step between thee of her blouse with the other

"Wait" She sounded shocked, but she didn’t struggle "What are you doing?"

"What I want, and what you want" He stroked her s them until she made a soft sound Then he deliberately reached under her skirt, expecting to find panties to pull out of the way

He found her instead, and pushed two fingertips inside her

"Look" at my hand," he told her "Watch what I do to you" He shifted his hand so she could watch hier into her sheath while he rubbed his thumb where her folds ers

Jema reached down to cover his hand, as if she couldn’t bear to watch the erotic way they were joined He brought her hand back up to rest it against her breast, and then pressed his gleaainst her lips

"Open for ave her a taste of herself, spreading the silky fluid on her lower lip, teasing the tip of her tongue with it

Her eyes were huge as his fingers left her lips and she looked up at hihs, cupping her sex and using the heel of his hand on her, doing with his fingers what he wanted to do with his cock

She convulsed, releasing a cry so sweet it made his head pound Then her eyes closed, and the darkness pressed in around theht, was over Thierry left her ently as he had entered it, and ca by her bed in her roo form At first what he saw didn’t make sense, because the dream world wasn’t real, and never intruded upon reality But there she lay, the sheet pushed aside, her slender body naked to his eyes

His hand, resting on Jeh

Thierry looked at his hand, and closed his eyes for the space of a heartbeat Then he brought his daers to his lips, and tasted her

When Valentin heard about the hit-and-run attempt at the hospital, he suave them what description of the killer Alexandra had been able to provide

"I want the driver found Do whatever youhireat was his rage

That soneur while he was in Jaus’s territory was a blatant sneer at his authority, and he would not tolerate it

"I don’t believe the attack was meant for Alexandra orin the lists "It may be a case of mistaken identity"

"I don’t understand"

"While she was at the hospital, Alexandra picked up another woman’s jacket by accident This woet"

Jaus stopped "Jema Shaw You’re sure about the na Ms Lopez while Alexandra was in her roo, "Alex’s talent enables her to sometihts as he aiting outside the hospital She didn’t connect theood as to help us locate her, she should be warned that her life is in danger"

"You have only to walk four hundred feet and you estured to Shaw House "Miss Shaw is lanced at the house "Perhaps this has more to do with you and Miss Shaw than e the rest of Cyprien’s questions and excused hi Jema He tried her office at the museum first, only to be told that she had called in sick for the day When he called Shaw House, one of the maids answered, and asked hi calls

"Mr Jaus," Je wrong?"

He realized that he could not say so to kill her, or de to… confir the masque at my home on the thirty-first I have heard that you have not been well"

"I’ a little blah," she admitted, "but I think I should be back to norlad you called"