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watch! I mean you threw my things out… you…”
    He laughed, a sound that made her inner thighs tighten. “I assure you, this is my room. Listen, I’m sorry. I know we got off on the wrong foot. Can we start over?”
    Clare’s jaw dropped. She couldn’t say a word. He was apologizing while holding her vibrator. The nerve of this man. The sheer boldness of his wicked words left her head spinning. She tingled all over and her treacherous body ached to know if he could deliver all that his look promised.
     
     

Chapter Two
     
    Braden Montgomery looked around the gaudy cabin and shook his head. Who in their right mind would decorate a honeymoon stateroom this way?
    Honeymoon stateroom , he played the words back in his mind, hardly able to contain the joy he felt inside.
    He’d been told at an early age that the likelihood of ever finding that one true mate, the one who would make him feel alive again, bear his children and spend eternity with him, was almost impossible. His best friend, Dominik, had been told pretty much the same thing, just like all immortals were. Braden had been unwilling to accept that as true. He’d spent too many centuries alone on this earth resisting the call of evil to believe that his lonely existence was all there was. No, he knew there had to be more. In all his eternity, there had to be someone for him. Then, rumors surfaced in the supernatural world about the Pleasure Cruises being used as a matchmaking device. He was tired of being alone. He wanted someone by his side, sharing the world with him. Knowing he wouldn’t find his other half on his own, he took a huge leap and contacted the powers that be, putting his life in their hands. When he saw his mate for the first time, he realized just how right the powers had been.
    They’d even been thoughtful enough to offer him a sneak peek at his mate. Taking them up on their offer, he watched, from the shadows, the area the powers had told him she’d be in. He didn’t know what to expect. What he found was a creature of such beauty that at first he thought he’d made a mistake—that she could not possibly be his mate.
    Once he realized that the raven-haired goddess was indeed to be his wife, he then thought that she must be ugly on the inside. Shallow. Full of greed, lust, anything that would make her less in his eyes. When he scanned her mind, he found only concern for her friend, the one she’d brought with her on the trip, the one that was to be Dominik’s wife.
    His mate was a human. He hadn’t been prepared for that. Humanity was a flaw to his kind, but Braden could easily overlook it. After she accepted him, she’d change, becoming a vampire like him.
    After scanning her thoughts, Braden knew that his mate considered Clare to be family, the only family she had left. Kira had little concern for money, although she’d been left a good deal from the death of her parents. Money meant little to him as well. His kind amassed fortunes over centuries of living and he had more than he and his new wife could ever want or need. She did work a lot, perhaps too much. After they were married, he hoped she’d slow down, perhaps even quit. Unfortunately, she might not have a choice. Vampires in the human workforce were a hard balance to maintain as they couldn’t go out during the day. But if she wished for a career, he would not get in her way. In fact, he’d do everything in his power to make she got what she wanted. Already, his life was hers. That in itself was amusing. He’d been so reluctant for so long, only to fall head over heels the moment he was finally presented with his future.
    Kira’s greatest flaw, from what he had sensed in her, was that she had hardened herself to love somewhere along the way. A thick wall surrounded her heart. He knew that she would make it difficult for him to break through. But he was determined to do just that. He’d waited too long for her to let something as small as her fear of love stop