Chapter 69

What did she say?

Isadora's face was a picture of confusion.

Victor's lips traced a slow, possessive path down to the tip of her nose, then finally pressed against her own, brushing her lips with his. He lingered there, savoring the taste of her, before deepening the kiss into something unmistakably French.

"Mmm-"

Things quickly got heated.

Isadora pleaded with him to stop, her voice half-laughter, half-protest.

It wasn't until her legs were so weak she could barely stand that Victor finally let

her go.

Later, standing in front of the bathroom mirror, Isadora stared at her pale skin, now marked with bruises and love bites that made her wince just to look at them. She silently cursed Victor. Was he part wolf or something?

The man had a thing for biting, apparently.

She rummaged through her closet for ages before finally settling on a shirt that would cover the worst of the marks.

she stepped out of her bedroom, Victor emerged from the guest bathroom across the hall. He wore a pair of casual gray joggers, bare-chested, water

Trouble incarnate.

looked away, awkward and just a little

was this, anyway? Victor acted more at home than

she blushed every time.

and frozen dinners greeted

frowned. "This is what you eat

with her bulk supermarket finds. Frozen

but only ever made

could hear the disapproval in

Fitzgerald's mansion," she said. "I don't

a private

skeptically in his hand. "No wonder you're all skin and bones. Living off this

check, she thought, rolling her

his way into the kitchen and

taking in the tall, elegant figure in her tiny kitchen. He looked completely

two bowls,

hurry out for a morning inspection at the mall. She was

door while

and a woman emerged in high heels -her neighbor,

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