Kiss of Midnight (35 page)

“Look around, Gabrielle.” His lips dragged over hers as he spoke, making her dizzy with want. “It is only you and me.”

“A girlfriend,” she blurted out between kisses. It was probably a little late to be asking, but she had to know, even if she wasn’t at all sure how she would deal with an answer she didn’t want to hear. “Do you have a girlfriend? Are you married? Please don’t tell me you’re married….”

“There is no one else.”

Only you.

She was pretty sure he hadn’t said those last couple of words, but Gabrielle heard them echo in her mind, warm and provocative, stripping her of any resistance.

Oh, he was good. Or maybe she was just that desperate for him, because that spare, unadorned pledge was all he gave her—that and the dizzying combination of his tender hands and hot, hungry mouth—and yet she believed him without a shred of doubt. She felt as if his every sense were trained on her alone. As if there were only her, only him, and this burning thing that existed between them. Had existed, from the moment he first showed up on her doorstep.

“Ohh,” she gasped as the breath left her lungs in a slow sigh. She sagged against him, reveling in the feel of his hands on her skin, caressing her throat, her shoulder, the arch of her spine. “What are we doing here, Lucan?”

His low growl of humor hummed beside her ear, deep as night.

“I think you know.”

“I don’t know anything, not when you’re doing that. Oh…God…”

“This is why I came here tonight.” Lucan’s voice rumbled beside her ear. “Do you understand, Gabrielle? I want you.”

KISS OF MIDNIGHT

A Dell Book / May 2007

Published by Bantam Dell

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New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2007 by Lara Adrian

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