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her slick, wet heat!  
      Many more remarks like his last one and Eva was more likely to stab him with a fork than let him make love to her!
      “Pity,” he drawled, turning away as if uninterested. “I’d better take you upstairs then and show you which bedroom you’ll be sleeping in tonight.”
      “At the other end of the house from your own bedroom will suit me just fine.”
      Finn gave her a mocking glance over his shoulder. “You’re safe enough from me, Eva.”
      “Oh I don’t need you to tell me that!” Eva glared at the broad width of Finn’s back as she followed him from the room.
      How long had she known this man? It seemed more like a lifetime than just hours.  
      He was just so much larger than life, so...imposing, it was impossible for her not to be aware of him. To want him.
      Minutes ago her nipples had ached, and between her thighs had felt hot and slick again with the need to have Finn touch her.
      He had certainly thrown a bucket of ice-cold water on that need.
      Eva wasn’t a prude by any means, and she had cared about the two men she had slept with, but she drew the line at being any man’s ‘fuck to pass the time away during a blizzard’!
      It was bloody insulting—
      Eva froze as all the lights in the house went out.

Chapter 8

    “What happened?” Eva didn’t dare to move, could only continue to stand frozen partway up the stairs, having absolutely no sense of her bearings, without the lights to see by, in this unfamiliar house.
      “I would have thought that was perfectly obvious,” Finn muttered distractedly.
      “Do you think it’s because of the storm?”
      Finn certainly hoped it wasn’t anything more sinister than that. The problem was he didn’t know. Not for certain. Not until he’d had a chance to check the fuse box, and if necessary, call the electric company.
      If it was a power outage then all was well and good.
      But if it was something else...
      He frowned grimly as he thought of the footprints he had seen outside earlier, and the fact that Moira knew where he was. “Wait here while I go and get the flashlight from the kitchen.”
      “I’m coming with you!” Eva reached out to grab hold of him. “Oops! Sorry.” She quickly released him as she realized exactly where she had grabbed him.  
      “You certainly choose your moments, Miss Shaw.” Finn was deliberately flippant; there was still no point in alarming Eva until, or unless, he absolutely had to. And he was hoping he wouldn’t have to.
      “It was an accident,” Eva defended indignantly.
      “Of course it was.”
      She gave an audible sigh of impatience. “Could you just get over yourself long enough for us to do something about this situation?”  
      “Such as one of us going downstairs for a flashlight?”
      “Ha ha, you are such a comedian!”  
      “I aim to please.” Complete silence followed this last, even more flippant remark, and without visibility to aid him, Finn had absolutely no idea what Eva was thinking or feeling at that moment. “Eva...?” he finally prompted sharply.
      “It’s so quiet when everything electrical just all goes off at once,” she spoke in hushed tones. “Spooky.”
      Just what Finn needed to hear, when he still had no idea if this was a general power cut or if someone, Moira, had somehow physically turned the power off.  
      It all seemed a bit coincidental after Eva’s claim of having seen someone outside, along with those footprints Finn had seen in the snow, confirming that someone was watching the two of them.
      He really wished he’d heard back from Lucien about when or if he could get some of his security people out here; he wasn’t worried for himself, but it really wasn’t fair for Eva to be dragged into the mess his life had become because of his stalker ex-girlfriend.  
      “The blanket of snow outside just adds to the eeriness,” Eva spoke softly again into that black silence.