A WHISPER OF ETERNIT

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Tracymoaned softly as her senses grew and expanded. His feelings, his pleasure, were tangled up with her own until she couldn't tell one from the other. She felt his hunger, as well, and when his fangs grazed her neck, she turned her head to the side, a wordless sound of acquiescence rising in her throat.

Her eyelids fluttered down as his body merged with hers and then she was lost—wonderfully, deliciously lost in Dominic's embrace.

Dominic heldTracy close, her back tucked against his chest, his arms tight around her, their legs entwined. He had waited centuries for this woman, he thought, and would willingly endure them all again for this moment.

She was his woman now, his wife, at last.

Her scent filled his nostrils. The sweetness of her essence lingered on his tongue.

Only one thing remained, he thought, and wondered if, in this life, she would accept the gift he had offered her countless times before.

He loosened his hold when she stirred in his arms. "Is something wrong?"

"No, but…" She rolled over and smiled at him. "I didn't have dinner and I'm hungry. And I'm worried aboutBryan ."

"I do not understand why you worry so over that boy." "I can't help it. He was my son in a past life, I'm sure of it."
"Ah, Jacob."

"Yes. Would you mind terribly if we went home?"
"Whatever you wish, querida ."

"I hate to leave, but…"

He placed one finger over her lips. "It is all right, my best beloved one." He kissed her tenderly. "We can go home whenever you like."

Tracyordered room service and while they waited for it to arrive, they made love again,then showered together.

She laughed as she washed Dominic's back. "It never occurred to me that vampires bathed." He glanced over his shoulder, one brow arched in wry amusement. "Indeed?" She shrugged. "I guess I just never thought of vampires doing normal things, you know?"
"Just skulking around in the shadows, preying on innocent women?"