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hair.
    “ I just realized that you
can kiss me senseless, but I know nothing about you.” Her voice was
definitely breathless. His
fault .
    “ Sure you do. You know my
family and history.”
    “ I don’t know your
favorite food, or favorite color. I don’t even know what you do for
a living.” Frustration simmered.
    He paused in stroking an escaped curl.
“My favorite color is,” he paused to stare into her eyes.
“Green.”
    “ What shade?” When had her
voice turned husky?
    His finger stroked across her cheek
and down to her needy lips. The pad of his thumb caressed them.
“Look in the mirror.”
    “ For what?”
    “ To see what my favorite
shade of green is.”
    Her heart picked up its beats per
minute to a rather uncomfortable tempo. For some reason she was
trembling and her hand kept stroking over his arm and shoulder.
Like she couldn’t get enough of this man.
    Probably she never would. So it was
best not to waste the moments she spent with him. Their eyes
connected and she loved the way his smiled into hers. Vlad had a
certain way of looking at her that set fire to every neuron she
possessed. It was rather unfair. No other man wielded this
power.
    He could turn her into a puddle of goo
with one look.
    Certainly that should be against the
law.
    His lips curled up. Her stomach tried
out for gymnastics. “What are you thinking?”
    “ That you should be
illegal.”
    One of his dark eyebrows shot up.
“Illegal?”
    “ You have far too much
power, Vladimir Wellington.”
    “ I’m quite happy to hear
that.” She felt those words against her lips. They made her
ache.
    Her eyes narrowed. “There will be no
abuse of your power,” she stated clearly, decisively. That was
good, right?
    “ Aye aye, princess.” When
he connected their lips, he was smiling. She could feel it. But
with a heartfelt groan, that smile dissolved into the best kiss
yet.
    Her temperature shot to somewhere near
five hundred degrees while her blood took on the consistency of
lava. Being burnt from the inside out was interesting. Not nearly
as interesting as the man causing this phenomenon though. Helena
twisted her arms around him and clung, her participation
absolute.
    She moaned and his lips detoured from
hers so he could kiss his way from her jaw and chin to her neck.
Her heartbeat thundered in her ears as her limbs turned
leaden.
    “ You’re everything I
dreamed you would be.” His lips trailed to her ear.
    A bit of the passion haze
lifted. What had he dreamed she would
be? Could she live up to his
expectations? Since she didn’t know what
those were, her heart offered a terrified thump.
    Working to place a modicum of space
between them, she lifted heavy eyelids to stare up at
him.
    “ What did you dream?” Her
voice was a sliver of a whisper.
    “ About you.”
    Thank you for telling me
nothing .
    “ What do you want from
me?”
    His answer was sincere, warm, and inflexible.
“Everything.”

Chapter 8
     
    When Tia tilted her head like that
Aleksi had trouble concentrating on the mundane plate in front of
him. Like Vlad had done, he really wanted to whisk his woman away
and kiss her socks off.
    “ Do you think we need to
interfere?” Since she sounded concerned, he decided he should take
her question seriously.
    “ Do you prefer my head the
way it is?”
    Her smile heated his inhibitions.
“Yes, I do.”
    “ Then we don’t
interfere.”
    “ Vlad isn’t going to do a
thing to me.” She had stopped eating and was staring at him the way
she did. Like she couldn’t believe her life.
    That dreamy, happy expression crossed
her face. He was certainly no prize, yet she didn’t believe that in
the least. It was like she was blind to his faults, except that she
knew them all too well. She loved him despite his
faults.
    Staring at her now, he understood. He
wasn’t blind to Tia’s faults either but he loved her more each day.
Shoving back his chair, he patted his lap. Smart, beautiful woman
that she was, Tia planted