** Eli **
Having spent almost an hour teasing the girl to hell and back, Eli wasn't planning on being gentle once he finally got to finish his feast. He had every intention to ravish her savagely … until her unintentional joke reminded him of their conversation on that drunken night.
Those dreamlike words she said to him at the time hadn't left his mind since then, and the memory of her tender promises touched a soft spot within him. It changed the molten heat sizzling in his blood, turned the surging and hissing flames into something else. Something no less fierce in its intensity, but not at all primal. Deeper, calmer.
