My Immortal

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romance novels had been written about.
    She just hoped it didn’t show on her face.
    He reached out a hand to help her up the steps to their private table, once again bringing her fingers to his lips. “I’m so glad you could make it,” he murmured against her flesh, a sensation that tingled all the way down to her toes.
    She pulled her hand free from a touch that was both extremely foreign and extremely exciting to her. “Thank you for inviting me.”
    He pulled out her chair. She felt the heat of his body as she sat. “But you weren’t going to come,” he assessed. She could hear the smirk in his voice.
    “ No, I wasn’t,” she admitted.
    “ May I ask what changed your mind?”
    “ Curiosity,” she stated simply.
    He just chuckled. “Curiosity killed the cat. Or so the saying goes.”
    “ I think you’ll find I’m a lot more formidable than a cat, Mr. Sterling.”
    His eyes appraised her. “I don’t doubt that. And I must insist again that you call me Nicholas. It’s much too nice an evening to ruin with such stiff formalities, don’t you think?” She grew restless under his penetrating inspection and turned her attention toward the rest of the restaurant.
    “ It’s lovely here,” she commented off hand.
    “ It’s lovelier now,” he said softly. Her stomach lurched into her throat as she met his gaze. “You look beautiful, Adele.”
    Her name seemed to roll off of his tongue, like he’d been calling her by her first name for years. Her look of surprise reminded him of his manners. “If I may call you that,” he added.
    “ Of course,” she squeaked out, before clearing her throat. “Although you may not want to call me anything after you read my expose on you and your company.”
    This seemed to amuse him. “I look forward to reading it,” he said with a slight twinkle in his eye. As he sat back she caught glimpse of one of the large bodyguards from the hotel dining with Thaddeus at a table behind them. Her quizzical frown drew Nicholas’s attention in their direction. He answered her questioning expression. “You can never be too safe.”
    “ Especially when you deal with daily death threats,” she added. “That must be upsetting.” She watched his expression for any hint he was going to let down his guard. There was none.
    “ I do not fear death,” he said with a casual shrug. “Not truly living, that’s the tragedy. Some people live very long lives and are never truly happy. Some people die young and never know the agony of growing old. It’s all a matter of perspective.”
    “ And are you happy?” she queried softly.
    He touched her hand on the table. “At this moment? Blissfully.”
    She blushed and again withdrew her hand. A wine steward approached, carrying a bottle of Merlot. Once the cork was popped and properly approved by Nicholas, the wine steward prepared to pour the wine into Nicholas’s glass. Nicholas covered the glass with his hand and indicated with a slight tilt of his head that the honor should go to Adele.
    Adele lifted the crystal glass of blood red wine to her lips, tasted , savored, and then nodded. The steward poured the glasses and made a discreet exit.
    Nicholas’s eyes never left hers as he took his first sip. “Exquisite,” he complimented. “You’re a woman of many talents.”
    “ Only one,” she corrected as she set her glass aside. She was already drunk enough. Alcohol was just going to add insult to injury.
    “ Do you have any further leads on the serial killer?” he asked, his direct question taking her completely off guard.
    “ What makes you ask?”
    “ I’ve seen your reports about it. You seem highly invested.”
    “ Who wouldn’t be? These are kids. They don’t deserve to die.”
    He cocked his eyebrow slightly. “You say that as if anyone deserves to live.” She sucked in a surprised breath and looked quite appalled by his comment. “That is not to suggest that their dying wasn’t tragic,” he continued. “It’s

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