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can’t.” He crossed the room to me before I could blink. So much for the coffee-table buffer. “But with your gift, you might be able to. This was the work of a vampire. I know it. But I can’t use my abilities on my own kind to discover the truth.”
    “So you want me to use mine? What, just walk around talkin’ up vamps, asking questions? Right, ’cause I’ve heard they love sharing. But first why don’t I do something a little less stupid, liking poking a hungry lion with a stick. Wheeee…” I wanted to turn and walk away but Alex grabbed my arms, pulled me hard against him. My breath huffed out when my chest met the solid wall of his.
    “I wouldn’t ask you if I wasn’t sure I could protect you.”
    My hands had gone to his chest on reflex. I could feel his heart beating, the heat of his body radiating through his white cotton dress shirt warmed against my palms. If I looked close enough, I could see the pulse in his neck. “You’re not dead.”
    “No.” He kept his gaze locked with mine as he spoke, making our closeness all the more intimate. “My heart beats…slowly. And when I rest, I can slow the beat even further. I can seem dead. But I’m alive.” His thumbs caressed in circles on my arms. His voice dropped. “I am very much…alive.”
    My belly fluttered, feminine instincts reacting to the change in his voice, the look in his low-lidded eyes. “Alive as in you have the same human, uhm, needs? You know, food, sleep, sex…bathroom breaks?”
    His gaze dropped to my mouth and I licked my lips. “Yes. But we think of them as more entertainment than needs.” He leaned a fraction closer. “Some more than others.”
    Muscles low in my womb clenched. He pulled my body closer to his so I could feel the stiff line at his crotch. I wasn’t the only one sensing the energy zinging between us. My heart clogged my throat, anticipation humming along my skin. Granted, my sex life has been kind of stalled lately, and I’ve always been a little easier than my mother would’ve liked.
    But everything about Alex Edmunston screamed mad skills between the sheets. The grace and strength in the way he moved, the masculine tone of his voice, the athletic shape of his body, the way his jaw clenched and relaxed as he drew closer to my lips. His sweet male cologne swam through my brain, demolishing any hope of restraint. His exhale warmed over my lips, the scent of his breath, of him, mixing to create an intoxicating rush of adrenaline storming through my blood.
    I raised my chin and he touched his lips to mine, soft, moist, delicious. My mouth tingled, heat seeping through my flesh, rippling down my throat, spreading fast through my body. The gentle suction of his kiss as our lips pulled apart drew me closer, wanting more.
    Alex shifted his upper body, kept the distance. My eyes shuttered open.
    He smiled, rubbed his thumbs against my arms. “You’re a beautiful girl, Sophie. And those powers, your ability to dominate, to rule my kind with your mind…” He glanced away, exhaled. “I can’t begin to describe the erotic temptation. But I…I have to go.”
    He dropped his hands and stepped around me, heading for my kitchen and, like a dim-witted puppy, I followed.
    “Come to the club tomorrow night,” he said. “I’ve got an idea who’s behind these murders. I’ll arrange for him to be there.” He glanced at me, his hand on the tall window that opened onto my fire escape.
    “Yeah. Right. You bet.”
    “Great. See you there.” He swooped close and kissed my cheek then straightened. His perfect white smile plumped his sun-kissed cheeks and sparked in the pure blue of his eyes. He winked, then turned and in one fluid movement leapt up and through the window, vanishing into the night.
    I stood there staring at the empty space where he’d been, my body still humming with the narcotic affect of his kiss, the feel of his hands on me, his scent still swirling through my lungs and I thought, what the …