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could. I could ask you what you taste like, what you look like spread out on silk sheets, how much it would take to make you beg me to touch you…” He lapped at the sensitive skin beneath her chin.
    “Do you want to play that game with me, sweet Tess?” He heard the desire as well as the defiance in her snort. “What part of this conversation has been about what I want?” He chuckled. “Why don’t you tell me what you want, sweet Tess.” He paused to inhale deeply, catching the ripeness of her scent. “Or better still, I can tell you what you want…”
    She shivered in his arms and the telltale motion made him smile. His little witch was just as affected by him as he was by her. That offered some interesting possibilities.
    “I have another idea,” she said, and her voice sounded strained. “How about I just give you the bloody message, you let me go, and we both pretend this never happened.”
    He laughed. “Oh, I don’t think so, Tess. I think we have much too much to talk about for that to happen. No, I think you should come with me.” He pulled her wrists down in front of her and tugged her away from the wall and toward the mouth of the alley. He managed to move her about seven feet before surprise wore off and she dug in her heels.
    “Wait. Where are we going?”
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    “To the building I just left. A friend of mine lives there. He’d be happy to provide us with someplace to discuss this message of yours where it’s a bit more comfortable. And better lit.”
    She tugged at her hands and refused to budge. “You’re going to take me to Vircolac?”
    “So now you know about the club as well?”
    “I was waiting for you outside of it a few minutes ago, wasn’t I?”
    “It’s not supposed to be common knowledge.”
    “It isn’t. That’s why I’m surprised you’d think of taking me there. I thought humans were barred from ever setting foot inside.” He smiled as he remembered Missy Winters’ opinion of that particular decree. “The rules have been…relaxed a bit recently.”
    “I don’t care. I’m not taking any more chances tonight. If you want to keep talking to me, you can keep talking to me in the alley. I’m perfectly comfortable here.”
    He turned back to her and raised an eyebrow. “But I’m not,” he purred.
    “And unless you intend to make me more comfortable—which, I feel I should warn you, would involve taking off all your clothes and laying down under me for three or four hours—I suggest you come with me to the club.” She leapt for the alley entrance with such speed, she almost ended up dragging him along behind her.
    In the darkness, Rafe laughed and wondered how long it would take him to change her mind about the appeal of that particular manner of getting comfortable.
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    Chapter Three

    “Who is she?”
    “Her name is Tess Menzies. I found her laying in wait for me outside the club.”
    “Outside my club? And security didn’t see her?”
    “They must not have.” Rafe shrugged, handed Tess a mug of steaming coffee, and turned away from her as if she didn’t exist. She glared at his back.
    “Maybe they want to be a little more careful in the future.”
    “Maybe they want to look for new jobs.”
    The man who growled that threat was none other than Graham Winters himself, the werewolf owner of Vircolac and supposedly one of Rafe De Santos’
    closest friends. Tess watched the byplay between the two men over the rim of her coffee cup.
    “In their defense,” Rafe conceded, “it’s not like she’s just some random human. She’s a witch, and apparently she’s been spying on me for awhile without me noticing, so she’s not exactly easy to spot.”
    “A witch? What the hell does a witch want with one of us?”
    “Damned if I know. She said she had some sort of message to deliver to me.
    From the Witches’ Council.”
    “They have a council?”
    “That’s what she says.”
    Graham growled something Tess