NocC 006 - Olivia Gates - Immortal, Insatiable, Indomitable - Harleqiuin 2012-01

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moment the door had closed behind her. He still couldn’t stop taking the note out every few minutes to reread it.
    The words remained the same. The meaning, too.
    She’d added the night of mortal danger to her life’s best. Because she’d found him then.
    Yet she’d walked away. She hadn’t tried to find him again. He knew. He’d gone to the nightclub every night since.
    He’d thought that if she did seek him out, he’d let them have another night. Or two. Or ten. He’d been telling himself that they might have enough of each other by then. That it wasn’t wise to let something so fierce go unassuaged or it would eat through them. As it was eating through him.
    But as each day passed, his disappointment intensified.
    How could she not wish for more of him, when he was in agony for more of her?
    In disguise, he’d followed her from work to where she lived alone in a loft downtown, searching for evidence that she hoped he was trailing her in her glances, her movements. He’d thought sometimes that she looked around, expectation in her eyes, then seemed let down when she thought none of those around was him.
    Maybe he’d seen what he was longing to see.
    The only thing that held him together was those words.
    I’ll never forget you.
    But they were no longer enough.
    He had to find out if she’d meant them.
    If she hadn’t, he’d just say hello and move on. He’d have certainty, closure. He was going insane not knowing for sure.
    He folded the note along the line she’d made, stowed it with reverence beside his other vital possession, Loki’s Locket.
    Then he rang her loft’s intercom.
    In seconds, the line opened. He heard clanging followed by her breathing as if she’d come running. Then her voice poured from the machine, stripped of its inimitable nuances, but still her voice. It cascaded over him in a wave of violent longing.
    “Yes?”
    It took him seconds before he could only mutter, “Vidar.”
    Everything ceased. Time. The sounds in the background. Her movement. Her breath.
    He gritted his teeth, bracing against the answer he dreaded.
    Please go away.
    What would he do if she said that? He couldn’t walk away.
    But if she said it, he had to respect her wishes.
    The intercom line went dead.
    His heart punched his ribs, the blow feeling it would leave both bruised.
    What had he expected? She’d asked for just one night, insisted on neutral ground, woken up first and left. Her silent rejection now told him all he needed to know. His presence was unwelcome. He should leave her alone. It was over.
    A tidal wave of black dejection crashed on him.
    And he finally admitted it to himself. Finding her had rejuvenated his will to exist. More. Sparked something unprecedented, an unquenchable desire to live, an unknown kind of life, with passion as its fuel, with her as its driving force.
    It didn’t matter that he wouldn’t have had much time with her. Any time he could have had would have felt like forever. Far better than eternity without her.
    He’d thought he’d reached his lowest point when he’d invoked Loki and demanded death. He hadn’t. She’d been able to drag him out of that abyss, just by wanting him. Now that she no longer did, nothing could bring him back.
    He turned, descended the dozen stairs leading to the building’s porch.
    The door burst open, slammed against the wall.
    “Vidar.”
    He swung around. Kara .
    She flew down the stairs, literally. She knew he’d catch her.
    He did, crushed her to him, feeling as if he’d caught everything worth having, the whole world.
    Her hug and the kisses she stormed over his face were frantic.
    Shaking with the reprieve of knowing she reciprocated his desire in full, he felt everything fall away as he carried her up to her loft, homing in on her bed. What followed was a new level of abandon, their lovemaking frenzied, their pleasure blinding.
    Endless hours later, she stirred over him, raised a head unsteady with the enervation of

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