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The muscles, the tattoo, his smooth skinGods, thishile Because she was

"Are you ready with those?" he asked, his voice a touch rough

"Oh Yes" She had three covenants baked and ready to be hung She carefully handed them to him

He was clearly still dubious about this whole process, but he was going along with it as if hoping it would work

When they'd returned to the house earlier, he'd trusted her to stay and shohile he located clay sorounds They'd met back in the kitchen, with Sabine dressed in another one of his undershirts He'd showered downstairs and wore a clean pair of jeans-with no shirt

His kitchen was ultra-modern, and she didn't exactly know her way around even a ed to find a bowl toof their blood with the clay "Your blood will bind you to the spell," she'd explained as she made a small cut in his arives this power"

Once she'd rolled the clay out flat in three baking dishes, Sabine had used an ice pick for a stylus In the first tablet, she'd carefully inscribed, "I will never lust after Rydstrom" In the second, she'd written, "I will never kiss Rydstrom" The third read, "I will never lie to Rydstroranite counter top "Covenant tiuys"

While Sabine had worked, she'd been drinking a nice dessert wine froainst the counter with his ar her every move

The sexual tension had been palpable

When they'd had to wait for the tablets to harden, she'd reasonably suggested that they occupy the this all business, sees "sorted out"

Now he approached her spot on the counter "What do we do?"

"Ready to test? Then, be so kind as to undo your pants and give me a peek"

"Sabine? Very well" He unbuttoned his jeans, pull­ing the fly open wide

As soon as she laid her gaze on his shaft, she bit her botto to touch him there, to run her lips over that flesh-

The first tablet shattered into pieces, plunging to the ground

His eyes widened briefly as he refastened his jeans "Kissin closer to her

She pressed her lips to his firm, delicious ones, and her eyes slid shut But when the second tablet splintered and dropped, he broke away "It's bloody working"

"You married a sorceress, de the tablets

"You can ask , and I'll have to answer honestly But before you get to your questions, I have one for you" He waved her on in that kingly way "If I had told you I had to get back to Tornin because of a life-or-death situation but I would return to you, would you have let o there without you?"

"No We do not separate, Sabine" As if to illustrate this, he returned to the counter, standing before her, wedging his hips between her legs "I've found you after fifteen hundred years, and I'm not keen to part from you for any reason"

"I see" She hadn't expected him to answer differ­ently, but his vehemence reminded her that she would have to tread carefully with him