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there was only him, her, and the primitive energy of the world coaxing them to fulfill their duties as beings and lay with one another.
    He pulled back pressing soft, but no less ravenous kisses across her lips, her cheeks, up her jaw to her neck where he kissed her rapidly thumping pulse. His ragged breathing sawed against her skin sending a shiver through her body. His hot, wet tongue darted out to taste a tiny bit of flesh before retreating as if wanting to go slow and savor.
    “You’ll make a perfect bruid .”
    Felicity blinked slowly as the sensual fog lifted.
    What?
    She couldn’t have heard what she thought she just heard. It had to be the fog surrounding her, combined with the potent brew he’d given her. Did he just say bruid as in a bride as in the woman a male vampire married to for life ?
    “That’s an odd thing to say,” she said with an uneasy laugh, the fog receding.
    He pulled back, that deep frown back in place as his brows pulled low. “Not really, considering.”
    Felicity pulled back too. “Considering what?”
    One of his dark brows flew up. “That we’re to be mated.”
    “Say what?” she said in a sharp voice.
    Before he had a chance to answer, the door downstairs flung open and in walked an older woman who looked no less stunning in her age. She wore a fine cream-colored dress with a matching jacket that had one button holding it closed. Felicity recognized Mrs. Blackmoore in an instant.
    “Dominic, are you in here?”
    Dom shot Felicity a scary look as if his mother’s intrusion seriously pissed him off. He called out, “What is it?”
    His mother turned around and gazed up. Felicity cursed and tried to duck out of his arms but he only tightened his grip, keeping her locked snuggly against him.
    At the sight of them together, his mother’s jaw dropped open and a deep flush colored her face. “Who is that!”
    “My bruid Julianna Greenwich, who do you think? Now get out of here, mother.”
    Felicity and Mrs. Blackmoore had about the same response—they both froze in place. Only his mother recovered much, much faster from her shock.
    “ That is not your bruid Julianna Greenwich. Julianna is waiting in the study for you, where she’s been waiting for nearly an hour!”
    Suddenly Felicity found herself the focus of two intense eyes, both russet with a touch of gold in the center.
    The touch on her arm became cruel. “And just who are you?” he asked and for the first time she heard him angry, and it sent a wave of fear down her spine.
    She licked her lips. “My name is Felicity Shaw. I was invited here for a job interview.”
    Even though she barely spoke above a whisper, his mother down below heard every word. “A job interview. That’s the event planner for the mating ceremony, Dominic! You are messing with the help,” she said.
    Dominic let her go and stepped away. It was as if an Arctic chill blasted over her at his cold gaze. All the passion that had been between them froze as surely as water in a freezer. Cold touched her where his heat had been and an even colder feeling settled in her chest like a hard knot making it hard to breathe.
    “Ms. Shaw if you’ll come down here we’ll get this all straightened away, and Dominic might you see to youractual bruid. She’s waiting in the study.”
    Dominic’s gaze stayed locked with hers. God, he looked fucking pissed . Felicity rather understood that. She had just been ready to get naked with him on the expensive rug and he was supposed to be mated with someone else? And he’d thought she was the woman? She had too many questions but couldn’t ask any of them. One thing was for sure, disappointment crushed her like an anvil sitting on her chest.
    Dom stepped up close but not touching. “You did this as a game. To play with me, to try a hand at a Blackmoore, for blackmail? Just what did you get out of it?”
    He spoke to her as if he hated her not in that warm way he had before. She flinched but held his gaze. “It