Luci smiled. Dante wasn’t ready for it and he thought he was ready for anything. He kind of heard the boys inhaling again, but all he could do for the space of it was stare and bask in it.
“We have something in common then.” She turned off the smile. Rational thought took a bit longer to be restored. “I’ve had a few encounters with him myself.”
Dante took a shaky breath, then said with assumed calm, “Then you know how unreasonable he can be?”
Luci laughed. The sound invoked an extraordinary feeling of delight that once again blurred rational thought and made him want to grin like a fool. He looked at his men and saw they were grinning like fools. He realized his mouth was starting to turn up and stopped it.
Get a grip, man. She’s just a woman. One who made him want to sit up and beg, b
