A Hidden Fire: Elemental Mysteries Book 1 - Plot & Excerpts
she hummed. She couldn’t suppress the satisfaction she felt hearing that Caspar said Giovanni was sulking, too.She hadn’t seen him for two weeks. Not since the night she was forced to face the hard truth that Giovanni, polite and cultured as he seemed, sucked on strange women’s necks for sustenance and probably did a lot of other things she didn’t want to think about. The night she had been informed that she was viewed as a kind of property or pet in his world, no matter how he tried to sugarcoat that fact.The night he’d kissed her. And she’d kissed him back.And what a kiss it was, she thought with a sigh.Remembering it was enough to raise her temperature. The way his lips had moved against hers, and the barely perceptible shiver she’d felt from him when her tongue touched his fangs. His arms. The heat. His hands on her back ...she shook her head and tried to push back the memory, but she could feel herself blushing as she sat at the table with her grandmother.She cleared her throat. “I doubt Giovanni is sulking. Caspar just likes to pester him.”“How long as he worked for Gio? Caspar talks about him like he’s known him his whole life.”She didn’t know the whole of Caspar’s story, but she knew Giovanni said they’d been together since Caspar was a boy.“You’d have to ask him. I think he may have worked for Gio’s family.” There, that was vague enough. She’d let Caspar fill in whatever details he wanted.While her initial promise to set Caspar and her grandmother up on a blind date had been in jest, the more Beatrice had thought about it, the more it made sense. When she’d asked Caspar about it, he’d been enthusiastic at her attempt at matchmaking. They’d gone out the night before and Isadora was glowing.“Well, he’s lovely. And has such a wonderful sense of humor.”“Unlike his boss,”
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