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He whispered, “I won’t bite you, but there are plenty of other things I’d like to do with you.”
His touch remained gentle as he combed his fingers through her hair.Tingles spread across her scalp.
Maybe a kiss?
She’d be on board with a kiss.
Her body warmed in places she preferred stay at the frigid outdoor temperature of the snowy forest.She might not want to get away from him if he decided to use his teeth.
He said hoarsely, “I want my mouth on every inch of you.What kind of magic are you doing to me?”
Air hissed out of her lungs as desire coiled deep inside her core.
The pounding of hooves closed in.
“Go,” he ordered.
She pushed off him and ran for the shimmery area she knew was her ticket home.She didn’t understand how she knew, but she ran.Before she jumped through the doorway, she paused for a glance back.Cliché, yeah, but how many opportunities would she have to see a vampire like Skarde in person?
He stood there as if once again immobilized by a spell, staring.
“Live.”She jumped through, landing pants-less and cold on her apartment’s beige carpet floor.
“Go!”she yelled at the TV.
He turned toward the thunder and for a few heart-pounding seconds stood motionless.He turned to face the camera.“Next time, I’ll take you with me, Gemma.And I won’t resist.”
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Goosebumps studded Gemma’s arms.
Skarde pulled a super speed move and disappeared.
The screen faded to black.No credits rolled, which was weird.
Had that…happened?
She looked down—her pants were nowhere in sight.
There was blood—his blood—on her fingers.Her socks were wet.She collapsed to the floor and swiped at her vision to find tears overflowing.It’d been real.
I touched Skarde Blackmann.
I saved him from dying, I think.
How was this possible?
Magic.
She squeezed her eyelids shut to block out the vertigo, but when she opened them, the room spun around her again.She wasn’t insane.She’d fallen into a TV show.She’d actually shot a wizard with an arrow and touched a vampire.Not just any vampire, but Skarde.Good grief, she’d stripped off her pants and flashed her thong at him.
Would other people who owned theLegacy of MagicDVD series now see her thong-clad ass every time they watched that episode?She hoped her disc was special.
The DVD menu was back on the screen now.Like yesterday, there was no episode three.It didn’t matter what she punched; the episodes she had already watched last night and tonight remained the only options.
On replay number three of the second episode, she shivered when Skarde said,“I won’t bite you, but there are plenty of other things I’d like to do with you.”
She watched herself running for the doorway.At least her legs looked moderately toned from the jogs she took twice a week to keep in shape, but why couldn’t she have chosen a sexier thong?
