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"While I’ they won’t put us in the sa you think I’s that you’re powerless to stop" He was closer now, his voice husky, the eyes overpowering her Hellfire, another ed "You proh to keep her wet, but his lips quirked He took her hand "Coain, the cars slowed the minute he put his foot in the street She told herself it was a small tohere people slowed for pedestrians, but with Mikhael, people seemed coic or his charis combination of both, but it rankled that it worked on her as well She dragged her feet a little "Where are you takingher the local favorite ice creaht? With nuts?"

An ice cream shop was like a bakery, alive with joyful smells that appealed to a sensory-oriented creature like herself Once inside the door, she brought him up short to inhale When she opened her eyes, he was considering her in that intent way that war?" she asked

"The sa" At her puzzled look, he ran his thumb over her knuckles "You inhale the smells, the sounds, because it’s all about pleasure and comfort The way you is Pleasure, because watching you do anything is pleasurable, and comfort, because it’s a co sihed nervously "I’ll invite you to watch me floss my teeth and see how pleasurable that is"

"Raina, you could stand on your head belching the alphabet and hter bubbled out of her The sensual roll of it turned heads He was supposed to be helping her with that, but apparently he hadn’t anticipated her laughter His eyes gloared her up to the counter

"I can do the fudge sundae," the store clerk said, "but not the nuts Kids’ peanut allergies Owner doesn’t dare risk the under his breath but nodded neutrally enough "Okay, o"

Raina et them" Mikhael handed her the sundae, then took her back out onto the sidewalk Nodding a block down, he indicated the drug store "That looks like a place that has nuts"

With a firm pressure on her shoulder, he eased her into one of the whih the sun was hiding behind the clouds, she was bemused to find the seat and back warm, as if heated by its bea her puzzleet cold Wait here"

Her stoesture, but she made an effort to hide it "I’ll wait only because I want to Not because you toldyourself that But youthat beautiful ass of yours"

When he threw her one of those devastating stern looks, she retaliated by standing up, turning a circle and sitting down again, wiggling her very fine ass She heard his chuckle as he crossed the street in those long, ground-eating strides, and it left her sive her screaash,into his sundae, she tested the strawberry topping When she saw hi for the nuts, she poked two eyes and a nose indentation into his ice crea one of the cut strawberries as a bow ertips

As he returned, his glance fell on it, as well as her sitting with her hands primly folded, a smirk on her face "I expect a bite of yours"

"I don’t share"

"Funny Neither do I Not certain things" Pulling the bag of salted peanuts out of the small brown sack, he used the saltshaker to crush the a liberal ao"

It touched her, the expectant look he gave her, wanting to be sure she was pleased So she closed her hand over his, still grasping the sundae to keep it steady, and caressed his fingers "Thank you"

He sat down next to her, pulling his chair close so they were shoulder to shoulder and could people-watch as they ate She did give hiave her the strawberry ue, then dipped his finger in the fudge, painting soether Then so her with his tongue until she put down her spoon and touched his jaw, ran her fingers through his hair and savored the kiss to the nth degree

When he pulled back, he didn’t go far, their eyes still close She didn’t want to say anything, didn’t feel like saying anything, and he didn’t see ainst her shoulder blades Occasionally he took bites of his sundae one-handed as she continued to eat hers Though they took their time, the ice cream remained cold, either a function of the shop’s freezer and ic

"So what happened, last tio well"