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and she could feel the
vibration of his…purr?
    Part of her wanted to break
away from the kiss and find out what the heck kind of guy thought
it was okay to just go around kissing strange women with only the
tiniest of introductions. But the larger part of her, too busy
pleasurably moaning as he licked and sucked her tongue, was telling
that small part of her to shut
up . Relaxing into his embrace, she slid
her hands up his chest and around his neck. She couldn’t remember
when a kiss had devastated her so expertly, but her mind was
swiftly turning to mush. He tilted her head slightly, deepening the
kiss. As she chased his tongue with her own, she scraped against
something sharp in his mouth and jerked back.
    She touched the side of her tongue
with her fingertip and looked down at it, surprised to see
blood.
    “ Sorry,” he said gruffly.
“Damn it.”
    He grasped her wrist gently, tugging
her around the counter and through the open door of what turned out
to be a surveillance room. Computer monitors, stacked in two rows,
covered three desks. She sat in one of the desk chairs when he
pointed to it, watching silently as he walked to a mini-fridge,
bent over – giving her quite a nice view – and removed a water
bottle. He straightened and turned, catching her ogling him. It was
her turn to blush.
    He knelt in front of her, his face
carved in worry. It was then that she noticed his eyes were amber,
an enchanting whiskey color. “Let me see,” he said.
    She raised a brow. “Did you really
just ask me to stick out my tongue?”
    “ I nicked you. I just want
to make sure it’s not bad.”
    His concern made her stomach flutter.
It was just so sweet.
    Feeling totally ridiculous, she stuck
out her tongue a little and ran her finger lightly over the place
where she’d been bleeding. It didn’t hurt anymore, and her finger
wasn’t tinged with blood.
    “ It’s healed,” he
said.
    “ That’s weird.”
    “ Here, Celeste,” he said,
cracking the lid of the water bottle and handing it to her. “I’m
sorry for nicking you. I wasn’t paying attention.”
    “ Got some sharp fangs?” she
asked with a chuckle before taking a sip of her water.
    “ Not normally like this.”
He smiled lopsidedly.
    “ Guess I’m just a lucky
duck today. Except for the tour thing, that was extra-strength
strange.” She paused, and then said, “How did you know my
name?”
    His eyes narrowed slightly and he
replied, “I was there when you told Caesar – my alpha – what your
name was.”
    “ Um, no. Only Jasper and
Evan were there.”
    And that big
lion.
    Her mind went blank for a long moment
as she stared into his amber eyes. This gorgeous guy, who had hair
the tawny color of lion’s fur, and had the same name as the lion
who’d tried to claw his way through the fence to get to
her.
    The water bottle slipped from her
hand, cold liquid splashing on her, as the idea that she was
looking at a man who had been a lion minutes before crashed through
her mind.
    She let out a half-scream, half-gasp
as she pushed her feet against the floor to scoot the chair away
from Jupiter.
    He grabbed the arms of the chair and
stopped her from moving far.
    “ Please don’t pass out,” he
said.
    “ I’m not going to pass out,
you loon, I’m going to call someone to help you because you’ve
clearly lost your marbles.”
    “ I haven’t lost anything. I
am what you think I am.”
    “ Crazy?”
    He scowled. “I can see it in your
eyes. You know exactly what I’m talking about.”
    She shook her head. “No, you have no
idea the ridiculous thoughts that are banging around in my skull.
It’s the kind of thing that would make a good movie on a
science-fiction channel, but not the kind of thing that makes sense
in the real world.”
    He inhaled and rolled his shoulders,
then exhaled. The way his breath pushed out of his lungs sounded a
lot like a growl, and as his lips parted she saw that he had
fangs.
    “ Oh. I…that’s why…my
tongue.” She