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"Hmm?”
"Killing them. You said in the van that it was the right thing to do, but it still bothers you. It's
why you go to church, isn't it? I see you there, but you aren't really into the services.”
He smiled, surprised and amused I'd guessed another secret about him. "How do you know
these things? I'm not guilty exactly…just sad sometimes. All of them used to be human or
dhampir or Moroi. It's a waste, that's all, but as I said before, it's something I have to do.
Something we all have to do. Sometimes it bothers me, and the chapel is a good place to think
about those kinds of things. Sometimes I find peace there, but not often. I find more peace with
you.”
He rolled me off of him and moved on top of me again. The kissing picked up once more,
harder this time. More urgent. Oh God, I thought. I'm finally going to do it. This is it. I can feel
it.
He must have seen the decision in my eyes. Smiling, he slid his hands behind my neck and
unfastened Victor's necklace.
He set it on the bedside table. As soon as the chain left his fingers, I felt like I'd been slapped in
the face. I blinked in surprise.
Dimitri must have felt the same way. "What happened?" he asked.
"I—I don't know." I felt like I was trying to wake up, like I'd been asleep for two days. I needed
to remember something.
Lissa. Something with Lissa.
My head felt funny. Not pain or dizziness, but…the voice, I realized. The voice urging me
toward Dimitri was gone. That wasn't to say I didn't want him anymore because hey, seeing him
there in those sexy pajama bottoms, with that brown hair spilling over the side of face was
pretty fine. But I no longer had that outside influence pushing me to him. Weird.
He frowned, no longer turned on. After several moments of thought, he reached over and
picked up the necklace. The instant his fingers touched it, I saw desire sweep over him again.
He slid his other hand onto my hip, and suddenly, that burning lust slammed back into me. My