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get these restraints on you,” I said, picking up the set of leather cuffs.
    “I think I’ll have m’self a drink,” Laveda murmured, and I could hear the flutter of her heart as she started to realize the very real danger she’d placed herself in. 
    I approached Rob with the cuffs, unable to keep from smiling as I wrapped the stiff leather around his wrist.  “Not exactly the way I pictured us trying something like this,” I admitted with a faint smile and he raised a single brow.
    “But you have pictured it?”
    “Hey, you’re the one who tied me up first.”
    His jaw dropped.  “I never…”
    “In that shared dream, don’t you remember?”
    Now his lips curved into a lazy grin.  “How could I forget?  But it don’t count, wasn’t real.”
    “It felt real enough to me.”  Everything about that dream still stuck fast in my memory with sharp clarity from the instant he’d first tied my hands above my head with my own long glove to the moment he’d slid into me, fast and hard.  From the hitch in his breath, I could tell he remembered it too. 
    “Go on the two of you, playing tie me up tie me down in dreams of all things.  Now who’s the bawdy one?” Laveda teased from the doorway and we ignored her, savoring the shared memory a moment longer as I worked the last buckle.  When the cuffs were securely on, I grabbed the carabiner and slipped it through the D ring of one and reached for his other wrist.
    Rob shook his head, pulling his hand free.  “Put them behind my back, not in front.”
    “It’s just to get your hands out of the way, I’m not arresting you.”
    “I can still hurt you six ways from Sunday with them in front of me.  You’d best secure them behind my back.”
    From the look in his eyes I could tell he was absolutely serious and I gave a slow nod, clicking them together behind his back.  “Here, take a seat on the edge of the bed for a sec, I want to talk to Laveda.”  Easing him down, I drew her aside, giving her one last chance to change her mind.  “Are you sure you want to do this?  It’s probably going to hurt.” 
    Laveda waved it off.  “I’m used to being bit.”
    “Not like this.  He’s not a vampire yet, but at that first taste of blood it’ll turn savage pretty fast.  It’ll be all I can do to hold him down.  Once he drinks you get out of here and stay gone.”
    “ I could help you with him.”
    “ No, the scent of you will be too much for him.”
    “ Do I offend?”  She sniffed herself.  “I took a shower.”
    “N o, it’s the opposite.  He won’t be able to resist you.  It’s best if you go and remove the temptation altogether.  In fact, it might be better if you stay away until well after the sun goes down tonight.  Is that alright?  Do you have somewhere you can go?  I can put you up in a hotel if you like.”
    “Naw, don’t you worry about me, I can take care of m’self right enough.  You concern yourself with getting him through the other side of this.”
    “Okay then, I think we’re about ready to begin.”  I couldn’t tell who was the most nervous in the room.  Laveda’s eyes burned bright, her heart beating fast like a hummingbird’s wings as she approached the bed.  For all the calm exterior Rob projected, I could hear his own heart like a jackhammer within his chest. 
    I took control of the situation, leading Laveda to stand against the bare strip of wall next to the bedroom door, the better to make her escape.  “Rob, kick off your shoes, I’d rather not be booted if I can help it,” I added as an afterthought, helping him rise afterwards and leading him to stand before her. 
    “Wait… wait a second.” I squeaked, a flurry of panic setting in as Rob leaned in close to her, pulling him back and laying my head against his chest. 
    “If you don’t want to do it this way…” he started to say, but I shook my head.
    “No, that’s not it.”  I knew this was the best way to get it over with,