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  She wanted the man lying beside her, his naked body curved around hers as if he, alone, guarded her against all the perils of the world he knew so well. And she realized that he did. He’d kept his promise to protect her.

  “I love you,” she murmured.

  His eyes blinked open, and in the dark depths burned his reply. She didn’t need the words, but he gave them to her anyways. “I love you.”

  That hunger building inside her, she straddled him and guided his throbbing erection inside her. She gasped at the sweet invasion of his hard body. And she rocked against him, back and forth. Up and down. His hands grasped her hips, guiding her toward ecstasy.

  But it wasn’t enough, the pleasure ebbing inside her. The hunger remained, until she leaned forward and nipped his neck. Her teeth stretched, fangs forming, and she broke through his skin.

  He groaned, and she pulled back, fearful that she’d hurt him.

  “I’m sorry.”

  He clutched her mouth to his throat. “Drink,” he urged her, his eyes dilated with a crazed kind of passion.

  She sucked, and sweet liquid filled her mouth, sliding down her throat like thick liquor—hot. So hot that she burned inside, her temperature rising until she erupted, coming harder than she ever had.

  He thrust up and tensed and spilled inside her. “That was…”

  “Perfect,” she murmured as she collapsed onto his chest this time.

  His heart pounded fast and hard beneath her cheek. And she remembered just a short time ago she’d nearly driven a stake through it.

  “I love you,” she vowed again.

  “I know. And I love you. I will always love you.” He stroked his hand over her back. “Will you always love me?” he asked.

  She sighed as her fears and doubts rushed back. “You mean if something’s happened to Jennifer—will I be able to forgive you?” It was almost as if she could read his mind, like his thoughts entered her head, or maybe she could just see them in the depths of his soulful, dark eyes.

  “Nothing’s happened to her,” he said, but doubt had crept into his deep voice and the depths of those dark eyes.

  “If it has, it isn’t your fault,” she assured him. “I won’t blame you. You gave her twenty years she wouldn’t have had without your help. And she wouldn’t let us stay tonight.”

  “Maybe she didn’t stay either,” Andre said. “She just wanted to make sure you got away safely before she left.”

  “Maybe.” But Eve had a feeling that her sister had wanted to be alone with Liam McKiernan. The vampiress and the vampire hunter.

  “She’s fine,” Andre said, this time with more conviction.

  “She has to be,” Eve agreed. Because everything was too perfect in her world for her to lose her sister again now. She’d finally found everything else she’d ever wanted—someone who loved her for herself. And someone she loved and would never lose.

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