A WHISPER OF ETERNIT

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reborn?"

"I educated myself," he said, "over and over again. I traveled the world, learning to speak other languages so that I would be able to speak your language, whatever it might be. It was no easy thing, keeping up with the world. Vampires are reluctant to change. We try and cling to the life we knew before the change came upon us. But those who do not change do not endure.So many new inventions with every century.New languages.New countries.New ways of life. I came from a poor village. We raised sheep for a living." He laughed softly. "In my day, people rarely traveled beyond the place where they were born. Today, you can be across the world in a matter of hours. It is a remarkable time."

"You're the one who's remarkable. Don't you ever get tired of, well, of living?" "Only when you are not in the world with me."

Sincere words, quietly spoken.They went straight to her heart.

"Dominic…" She lifted a hand to his cheek. His skin was cool beneath her fingertips.
He went utterly still at her touch. His eyes were focused on her face, his breathing suddenly shallow.

Slowly, she leaned forward and pressed her lips to his. Perhaps she could learn to love him as he deserved. One thing was certain—no man she had ever known had affected her the way he did. Never had she responded so quickly to another man's touch, or another man's kiss. Had her subconscious remembered him from the past even though she had not? Did her body yearn toward his because they had made love in other lives?

His arm slid around her waist to draw her closer and when she didn't resist, he deepened the kiss, stealing her breath away until all she could do was cling to him as the world slipped away and there was nothing left but Dominic's mouth on hers, his body pressing intimately against hers, his hand caressing her back, lightly skimming the outer curve of her breast.

His touch filled her with such pleasure it was almost painful and she moaned softly, a wordless plea for more, or less.

Dominic drew back, his gaze burning into hers, his body trembling with a deep-seated desire that was far more than the yearning for physical fulfillment.

Muttering an oath, he gained his feet. He stood there staring down at her, his eyes blazing. And then he was gone.

Tracystared at the floor where he had been standing, flabbergasted by his sudden disappearance.

She took a deep breath. My, oh my, but that man knew how to kiss! If he had kissed her like that in any of her previous lives, it was no wonder she hadn't been able to resist his advances. To tell the truth, she was glad he had vanished when he did because she wasn't sure she would have been able to tell him no if things had gone any further. One thing was for certain—if any of her boyfriends in this lifetime had kissed her like that, she would have lost her virginity long ago.

Which left her wondering if she had said no to all the others just to surrender her virtue to a vampire.She shook her head in bewilderment, not certain if she felt like laughing or crying. She had refused to let him make her a vampire in all her past lives, and she wasn't about to let him make her one now, either. She