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her as, You are just too stupid to be alive, aren’t you?
    “ Of course I am. I think so anyway. What are you going to eat?” He could tell by the look on her face she realized too late what she had asked him. Warmth rushed through him, followed immediately by need. A need so profound he wanted to throw her on the table and feast on her, body and soul.
    “ Hummm.” He took a step toward her, only to come up short when she suddenly had one of her blades at his chest. “Are you offering yourself? Because there’s nothing I’d like more than to take a sip of you. Of you, your mouth, any part of you that you’re willing to let me taste.”
    He moved his head toward her, toward her full mouth. He watched, mesmerized, as she licked her lips with the tip of her pink tongue. He groaned softly as he leaned closer to her mouth.
    “ Sara, I want to kiss you.”
    “ No. You can’t. I...I forbid you to try.” Her voice was husky and soft.
    Slowly, agonizingly slow, he touched her ribs with his left hand, spreading his fingers wide along her. He brushed his mouth across hers in a small whisper of a touch. With his right hand, he encircled her other wrist, pulled the blade from his chest, and stepped closer to her body.
    “ Sara...” As Aaron moved in for another light kiss, he cupped her breast in his hand and brushed his thumb across her nipple. He felt the warm flesh tighten and swell against his palm.
    “ I don’t want this. You...stop right now. Stop...please, Aaron.” Capturing her moan, her body arching against his, he dipped in again. This time. This time, she was his.
    “ Sara, let me taste you, love. Please?”
    Before she could answer, before he could taste her, she was pinned against the far cabinets, two feet off the ground by Colin, and Aaron was on the floor. Colin had his large bicep at her throat while working to take her knife from her hand. Aaron didn’t think Colin would hurt Sara. He just wanted to disarm her. He saw her slam her wrists against his shoulder and with a hiss of steel, twin blades came forward and into her hands. In a blink of an eye, everything changed from disarming her to her having a blade at Colin’s heart with just enough pressure to draw a drop of blood.
    “ Colin, don’t. She’ll do it. Put her down. It’s just a small...misunderstanding between us. Isn’t it, Sara?” Aaron looked in her eyes.
    “ My lord, this puny human cannot come in here and pull a blade on you.” Anger and something hinging on incredulity was in his voice. As if he couldn’t believe Aaron would want him to stop protecting him.
    Aaron ignored Colin for the moment and continued to stare at her. What he saw gave him pause; hurt, sorrow, sadness, bleakness, every depressing emotion you could image, but mostly he saw determination cross her face. She would kill Colin if, but only if, he gave her a reason.
    “ I have no doubt she is regretting it as we speak, aren’t you, Sara? Sara, answer me.”
    Aaron stepped forward to pull Colin’s arm from her neck and stopped. She pushed the blade into Colin’s chest a little harder. Blood now dripped down his shirt.
    She whispered through his mind, as she was unable to speak with Colin cutting off her airway. “I don’t want to hurt him. But know that I will. I had a momentary lack of good judgment the other day and I’ve decided I can’t die just yet. You tell him to let me go and I will stop trying to remove his heart.”
    “ Colin, she’s very sorry for trying to kiss me just now. If you’d be so kind as to let her go, I might let her try again.”
    Aaron could almost feel her glare it was so intense. He needed to make him let go, damn it. He was touching what Aaron considered his, and he did want to kiss her properly this time. But Colin’s bark of laughter brought him up short.
    “ I will back off, little one, if you would be so kind as to not unman me just yet. I may have something there that we can both enjoy later, if you’d like,” Colin