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stake.”
    She straightened
closing the distance between them as far as she dared without touching him. “Yes,
this is personal for me. The curse destroyed my family’s life. I’ll do
everything in my power to stop it. And, if you are asking whether I’d betray
your trust? No. No, I wouldn’t.”
    He narrowed his
eyes slightly before he pulled away, though his hands remained on the table
close to her hips. She let out a heavy breath.
    Lilly saw the hunger
in his eyes. Hunger she had seen several times before when he stared at her. She
squirmed under his gaze. With very little room to move, her hip brushed his arm.
The fire in his eyes intensified with the slight contact. A stark contrast to
the coldness of his skin.
    Finally, she
couldn’t take it. “Do you have to look at me that way?”
    “What look would
that be, Lilly?”
    Another chill ran
down her spine when he said her name. She lifted her chin. “The one that looks
as if you are going to take a bite out of me. It’s very disconcerting. I’ve
enough problems with revens trying to make me a meal.”
    He blinked, then
suddenly his eyes darkened. He leaned in closer so that his lips almost touched
hers. “You mean this look.”
    She inhaled sharply.
Her heart clashed against her chest. “Yes.”
    “And what if I
wanted to take a little nibble?”
    The words sent an
instant rush of heat through her body, tingling in all the right places. She
closed her eyes, and gripped the table. The wood creaked under the stress.
    “Open your eyes,” he
commanded.
    She complied and
found him staring into her soul. Her connection to him was so strong. Everything
about him pulled her in. The more she struggled to stop it, the stronger it
became.
    Her body trembled, feeling
the cold press of his lips against hers. Coldness spread over her face, cool
and delicious. Like, an ice cold drink on a sweltering day, quenching an
unknown thirst. His strong cold hands grasped tightly around her biceps and
pulled her in tighter to his mouth. Her reluctance got lost somewhere in the
taste of him. Desperation overcame her as he aggressively sought out her tongue
with his own. A moan escaped her lips with the onslaught of pleasure. He
answered her with a growl which resonated in his chest, spurring her to slip
her hands under his tunic and up his tight muscular back.
    The deep growl of
arousal propelled to a deafening roar. He reared back and retreated several
feet into the darkness.
    She gasped. To
stabilize herself, she gripped the table and leaned over to catch her breath.
Her warm fingertips pressed against her burning lips.
    “Whoa,” she
muttered under her breath. She didn’t know what to do with herself. Stay? Go? Run?
She just kissed an Egyptian god—the God of the Underworld, no less. Her body
throbbed from a simple kiss.
    Who was she kidding?
There was nothing simple about it.
    One thing Lilly did
know, she burned him, and badly, considering the distance he backed away. She
glanced over her shoulder to the location he disappeared. “I’m sorry.” She
followed it with a deep breath, and looked down at the parchment she laid out. Lilly
tried to distract herself from the warm burn of heat returning to her face.
    “Lil,” Kit yelled.
    She took another
deep breath before turning to her sister. “Lil, hey.” Kit narrowed her eyes on
her. “Are you okay?”
    “Yeah, what’s up?” She
leaned against the table casually. Her eyes darted to the dark corner. She knew
he was watching, but didn’t enter the room. She hoped he was okay.
    “Mother called.” Kit
grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the room and up the steps. “We have a
lead. We need to move.”

CHAPTER nine
    Lilly grabbed her
weapons belt and put it on. “You’re not going and that’s final,” she said to
Kendra. “It’s too dangerous for you to travel at night.”
    “You may need me.”
    “No, we don’t.”
    Kendra turned to
her other sister. “Kit, help me here.”
    “Lil is right. We
can’t