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He longed to know her. To know her name. To know her inside and out.
“Dinner. Would you like to be dinner? Have dinner, I mean. With me.”
but I would rather suffer through the pain than lose the pleasure of your company.”
Was she turned on by this? Wait, of course, she was. She was a bookworm. A book hoarder. A book dragon. A library troll. She was a bibliophile.
He wanted this man dead, never to look at another woman again. To never look at her again.
He wanted her as his companion. Wanted her by his side for all the days ahead. Wanted her as she was, right in this moment, preserved for all time.
“Much. A little fresh air does wonders for the senses.” And the blood of someone who had pissed him off.
The woman in her was pressing her thighs together, trying to remind herself that showing off his library was not a form of foreplay... Okay, no, there was no point in lying to herself. This was definitely foreplay.
Touching could happen after she saw the books.
“A book can take you somewhere,” she quoted as she tried to pick a place to start. Where could she even start? Was there a proper place? Should she ask him for a tour of the shelves? What was his organization strategy? Did he follow any pattern? “A bookshelf can take you anywhere. A library can take you everywhere.”
“A book can take you somewhere,” Rosamund said suddenly, her head tilted to the side. “A bookshelf can take you anywhere. A library can take you everywhere.”
Immortality with books sounded amazing, but not having good sex or someone to share a book with? That would be lonely.
His fears were absurd, because while Rosamund did want her immortality, she also wanted him. And perhaps she could have both.
“You should know that we will always be bound to one another, should I turn you, although the bond will lessen with time, if we part ways.” “And leave this library behind? I think not.” She winked at him, winked!
“I love your books, and I love your shelves, and I love your library. It would be so easy to love you.”
“My attraction to you is limitless. I crave you intellectually, yes, but also carnally. I would know your body, every soft dip, every sound you make, every desire you hold.”
