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forbidden desire she’d suppressed over this
wizard.
    Rob lowered one arm to thread around her waist, drawing her
even closer against the hard warmth of his body. Through the material of his
tuxedo pants, she could feel the thick, hard length of his cock. Radiating heat,
she rubbed herself against him, loving how the friction shot sparks along her
skin and how powerful he felt restrained beneath her.
    Their mouths ate hungrily at each other, as if all reserve
had finally left them both. Incoherently they both murmured, unwilling to
withdraw even far enough to speak to one another, needing to taste and explore
everything they could while they had the chance.
    The trilling, high-pitched female laugh echoed once again
across the gardens, snapping Zahra back to reality more than a slap or dash of
cold water ever could have. She jerked back her head.
    “Circe,” she swore, taken aback by her reckless behavior,
and stunned by how badly she wanted to go back for more. A lot more.
    Sucking in a deep breath, she reminded herself Rob was worth
far more to her than a casual rebound or revenge fuck. She genuinely liked the
wizard, had a lot of respect for him and his talents. More importantly,
this…thing that had blossomed between them was better than a quick roll
together.
    She knew without a doubt they would burn the sheets up together,
literally if the sparks of magical energy zinging at the edges of her
fingertips were any indication, but she didn’t want to ruin their camaraderie
and friendship by complicating it just now. Zahra knew she was a mess
emotionally and she wanted to start something with Rob for the right reasons.
    “Don’t say it was the rebound,” Rob insisted thickly. His
voice was a full octave deeper, lust still wildly flickering in his gaze. “We
both know there’s more than that between us. There always has been.”
    Reluctantly she nodded. “I don’t want to doubt us though, or
question why it was we got together. I need to sort myself out first. Can you
understand that?”
    Rob made a face before he agreed. “Don’t expect me to give
you much time, though. Not after a kiss like that. A wizard only has so much
patience.”
    Zahra instinctively moved toward him, stopping herself just
before she could kiss the sexy wizard once more. Forcing herself to step two
paces back, she fiercely restrained the impulse to throw herself at him, kiss
him until nothing else mattered and tear their clothes off and have her way
with him. Rob’s gaze darkened with heat, clearly knowing exactly what she had
very nearly done.
    “Well, I guess that answers the question of how you feel,”
Rob said calmly. “I have so much passion burning inside me for you, I’m pleased
you return a semblance of that.”
    Zahra smiled, though it was a bittersweet one. The betrayal
by Miles still burned inside her. Upset as she was, it hadn’t broken her heart.
She swore to herself she’d take some time to sort her emotions out, but she
couldn’t deny the chemistry and the growing depths of her feelings for Rob.
    “I don’t want to rush in to a quick fuck with you, Rob,” she
said with brutal honesty. “I’d rather wait a bit and see if we could have
something…well, something more than that.”
    He nodded stiffly, but there was understanding in his gaze. “You’d
better go back in, before my cock overrules my brain.”
    Her gaze flickered down to the tent in his pants, his shaft
still highly aroused and his impatience beginning to show through the thin
veneer of the gentleman. She’d always known much of his bad boy demeanor was
just to annoy the many stuffed shirts at his work. This proved it.
    Political wrangling aside, the Investigators and Consultants
worked predominantly for all the varying levels of the Council and Tribunal.
Zahra had always thought there were more repressed feelings and fake masks worn
in that elite circle than anywhere else on the face of the planet. Rob relished
being the black sheep there. His