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true mistress of the house. She wouldn’t mind if I borrowed it for a night or two. “I’m in no mood.” I tried closing the door in his face, but he caught it and followed me into the room. I had guessed that it wouldn’t be so easy.
    “You thought it was necessary to kill Eva?” he inquired, placing his bag on an empty chair near the fireplace.
    “Are you serious?” I choked out with a little laugh. “Do you think I was going to miss out on the chance to kill one of Sadira’s fledglings, as well as deny them more blood if I was given the chance? Of course I had to kill her.” I dropped my bag to the hardwood floor with a clang as my weapons knocked against one another.
    “And killing her had nothing to do with you being jealous?”
    “Jealous!” I snarled at him while a fire burst into existence behind him in the fireplace. To his credit, he didn’t flinch. If anything, his smile seemed to grow a little wider. “I was not jealous of that sleazy tart.”
    Valerio laughed deeply as he took a step toward me. “I know your mind, Mira. You can’t hide from me. You’re eaten through and through with jealousy. Did you think that I belong exclusively to you?”
    “I know you don’t belong to me the same way that I don’t belong to you. We’re both free to go our own way and seek amusement with whomever we choose,” I said quickly, but the words were like acid burning away at my throat. Valerio was right. I was jealous beyond rational thought. I didn’t want another nightwalker touching him while I was around. If I had my way, I would burn through every nightwalker that dared to lay eyes on him without my permission, but I knew we couldn’t continue with our current laissez-faire relationship if I was going to be jealous of every female that panted after him.
    Valerio closed the distance between us. Raising his right hand, he wrapped it around my throat, pressing his thumb into my cheek. “Say it. Look at me and say it,” he commanded in a low voice that was nearly a growl rumbling in his hard chest.
    “I am jealous,” I bit out, glaring at him.
    “Again!”
    “I’m jealous,” I said louder, my temper burning inside of me.
    “What else?” he pressed, his eyes falling shut.
    “I hated her touching you. I hated watching you kiss her. I wanted to pull her hair out, make her scream in pain before finally causing her to beg for death.”
    Valerio opened his eyes and they were glowing when he looked at me. He roughly grabbed my hand with his free left hand, bringing it to the front of his pants. I could feel his body growing harder with each word that I uttered. My own anger disappeared in an instant as I mindlessly started caressing him through the fabric. My jealousy, my insane need to possess him, had turned him on instead of shoving him away.
    “More,” he commanded in a rough voice.
    “I’m going to continue to kill them, Valerio.” My hand slid up the front of his pants and undid the buttons holding them closed. “I’m going to kill every woman that dares touch you. They’re all going to burn.” Sliding my hand inside of his pants as they hung loosely on his hips, I wrapped my fingers firmly around his hardened member and stroked him, pulling a long moan from his lips. “None of them will ever want you like I do.”
    “I know,” he murmured before he pulled me close and captured my mouth in a rough, possessive kiss that wiped away all memories of Eva. There were only his full lips as they caressed my lips, parting them as his tongue darted into my mouth. He tasted me, memorized me, seared me with the growing heat between us.
    His mouth left mine only to travel down my neck as he gripped the front of my shirt and ripped it apart. He tore my thin white chemise underneath it in two, baring my breasts. While one hand kneaded my left breast, his mouth devoured my right. My knees threatened to buckle as the tip of his tongue circled my nipple before he sucked hard on it, wringing a moan of