Page 68 of Thin Lines (Donati Bloodlines 2)

“Why is that?”

Affonso chuckled. “Because Calisto isn’t Richard. He’stoo much like—”

Emma didn’t get the chance to hear the rest ofAffonso’s statement. A hand landed on her shoulder, and another covered hermouth. She shrieked, but it was muffled into the familiar palm keeping herquiet.

She playfully glared at Calisto as he turned her inhis embrace to stare at her. Without a word, he pushed her into the library andshut the door so it was only open a tiny crack.

“What are you doing?” Emma asked.

“Unlike you,” Calisto drawled, smirking wickedly, “I’mnot eavesdropping.”

“Hey, you learn a lot that way.”

“It can be bad for your health, bella.”

Maybe so.

It was only then that she realized he had gotten heralone.

Affonso thought Calisto was gone.

It was dark all around them.

And then Calisto was kissing her.

Hard.

Emma

Calisto’s kiss was enough to send a raging torrent ofheat shooting straight down between Emma’s legs. His stubble scraped hersensitive skin and his teeth nipped on her bottom lip. She didn’t want to stopkissing him and feeling his tongue battle with hers while his palms skidded upher thighs, but she had to.

Every warning bell in her head was going off likecrazy.

Crazy like they were.

“Wait,” Emma gasped, turning her head away from thenext bruising kiss. “God, Cal, just wait.”

“What?” Calisto asked, a little too harshly.

Emma shot him a curious look, but the darkness of theroom shrouded his features too much for her to see his reaction. “This isstupid.”

Calisto’s hand left her dress. He rested it over herheart gently. “Your heart is racing. I can feel it.”

“I wonder why.”

“I didn’t say goodbye to you,” he murmured.

Emma’s breath caught. “And that’s why you dragged mein here?”

“You liked it.”

“Still stupid, Cal.”

“You made me stupid quite a while ago.”

Emma chewed on her bottom lip, wishing she could gether thoughts and heart on the same damn page for a second. “We shouldn’t bedoing this.”

Calisto sighed heavily. “I get it. It’s perfectly finefor you to approach and back me into a corner, but when I do it, suddenly itisn’t okay.”