Chapter Nine
LILLIAN
“No,” she gasped, pulling back, breaking the kiss. Her heart was racing, and she was embarrassed. She’d tipped her hand.
Besides, it was too fast! She’d only just met him and already he was kissing her! She should slap him for making such a forward move like that. They may be working together now, but that didn’t give him a free pass to her body or her lips.
He looked at her, unblinking, mouth still held slightly open so that she could see the tips of two of his fangs. That had been a weird sensation. They had pressed into her bottom lip, and she could tell from the way that he had kissed her that vampires kissed differently, more carefully. It could never just be an indiscreet mashing of mouths and sharing of saliva. It would always be more… nuanced.
Realizing sh
