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Is that what you were doing in my room?” he asks after a moment. I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? “Yes. I was on assignment.”“ I was your assignment?”“ Yes.” He hesitates a moment, then grins. “That’s kind of hot.Rachel Morgan
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You guys dated, didn’t you?”“ Are you insane? Not even if the continuation of our kind depended on it would I be tempted to do something so awful.Rachel Morgan
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I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it’s possible I look like a total moron.Rachel Morgan
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Colors shift like smoke within the branch beneath our feet. Sprites jump from leaf to leaf, leaving sprinklings of glittery dust in the air behind them. Droplets of water are strung like pearls from the silver strands of a spider’s web. Bluebottle glow-bugs stick to the leaves and branches, lighting up the night with their blue-green bodies. And high above us, clouds are draped like sashes of color across the sky. Amethyst, azure, jade.Rachel Morgan
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Instead of fighting it, I close my eyes and let myself go. I feel the muscles of his shoulder beneath my hand. The frame his arms create is strong, secure, but I want those arms tighter around me. Much tighter around me. Much tighter, much closer. I want there to be no space at all between us. I. Want. Him. So. Badly.I want to kiss him, laugh with him, cry with him, share every freaking moment of my life with him because no matter how many awful things he's done in the past, I can't shake the undeniable feeling that when his arms are around me, I'm home.Rachel Morgan
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Ryn looks sideways at me and raises an eyebrow, " It's big enough for two."-" You're joking right? Why don't you pretend to be a gentleman and give me theRachel Morgan