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stomach went queasy while my skin started to prickle and grow warm again. My breathing
became heavy. His lips moved toward mine again.
Some inner part of me fought through.
"Lissa," I whispered, squeezing my eyes shut. "I have to tell you something about Lissa. But I
can't…remember…I feel so strange….”
"I know." Still holding onto me, he rested his cheek against my forehead. "There's
something…something here…" He pulled his face away, and I opened my eyes. "This necklace.
That's the one Prince Victor gave you?”
I nodded and could see the sluggish thought process trying to wake up behind his eyes. Taking
a deep breath, he removed his hand from my hip and pushed himself away.
"What are you doing?" I exclaimed. "Come back…”
He looked like he wanted to—very badly—but instead he climbed out of the bed. He and the
necklace moved away from me. I felt like he'd ripped part of me away, but at the same time, I
had that startling sensation of waking up, like I could think clearly once more without my body
making all the decisions.
On the other hand, Dimitri still wore a look of animal passion on him, and it seemed to take a
great deal of effort for him to walk across the room. He reached the window and managed to
open it one-handed. Cold air blasted in, and I rubbed my hands over my arms for warmth.
"What are you going to—?" The answer hit me, and I sprang out of bed, just as the necklace
flew out the window. "No! Do you know how much that must have—?”
The necklace disappeared, and I no longer felt like I was waking up. I was awake. Painfully,
startlingly so.
I took in my surroundings. Dimitri's room. Me naked. The rumpled bed.
But all that was nothing compared to what hit me next.