Those sapphires of his sparked in the moonlight, so beautiful and dangerous. "Don't you want to know where the lake is?"

"You said it's here. A lake inside a house can't be that hard to find." My body both tensed and delighted when he climbed to the step just below mine, the columns of his muscles sliding against me. "So...I don't need you. You may go now."

"Oh, may I?" His gaze searched my face, snagging on my lips repeatedly while his curled in a devastating smile. "That ...