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  I rose from my bed and moved across to crouch beside hers. She did not move, although I noticed she did flinch. I took her hand in mine and smiled. “You can’t be that good a judge of character, Iris, if you didn’t realise one thing about me.”

  “What, that you’re attracted to freaks?”

  “No. That I have a thing for robots.”

  I placed my thumb and finger on her chin and kissed her. Her lips were coarse, dehydrated and stained with dirt and blood. They were the sweetest thing I had ever tasted. For a moment she resisted, but it was more through surprise than anything, for then she returned the kiss, her arm encircling me and folding me into her embrace. I lay beside her on the bed, aware of my injury, aware of hers, but still unable to prevent my hand roving across her body as we lost ourselves in what promised to become more than just a kiss.

  “Hey,” Wraith’s voice came over the speaker, startling me so much I fell off the bed. “No funny business in there. Doctor’s orders. Jeez, some people.”

  Lying on the floor, looking up at Arowana’s concerned face gazing down upon me, I laughed. A smile crinkled Arowana’s lips and I decided in that moment that it did not matter what the three of us chose to do next. I never thought I would find love again, but this time I knew it was for real. This time it was forever.

  This time I had found a woman who could truly love me back, and that was all I had ever wanted.

  Also available by the same author in e-book and paperback:

  Dinosaur World books:

  Excavating a Dinosaur World

  Dinosaur Fall-Girl

  Dinosaur Plague Doctor

  Ike Scarman & the Dinosaur Slavers of Ceres

  Dinosaur Prison World

  The Dinosaur That Wasn’t

  Awfully Wedded Strife

  Tales of a Dinosaur Prison World

  Deities of a Dinosaur World

  Return to the Dinosaur Prison World

  Nikolina Finch & the Dinosaur Utopia

  Of Stags, Hens & Dinosaurs

  Dinosaur World Gladiator

  Dinosaur World Massacre

  Dino-Racers

  Christmas on a Dinosaur World

  Utara the Savage

  Sheriff Grizzly:

  Book 1: Sheriff Grizzly

  Book 2: The Horse Thief Honey

  Book 3: The Coyote Colt Kid

  Book 4: Joins the Circus

  Game books:

  Lost Treasures of a Dinosaur World

  The Underworld Horror

  Knights of Torbalia game books:

  The Return of the Stolen Jewel

  Into the Massacre

  March of the Demon Trees

  The Thief of Tarley Manor

  Hero Cast trilogy:

  Book 1: The Villainous Heroes

  Book 2: The Heroic Villains

  Book 3: The Forge of Heroes

  Detective books:

  Detective’s Ex

  One-Way Ticket to Murder

  Who Slew Santa?

  The Curse of the Genie’s Detective

  The Woman Who Cried Diamonds

  The Murder of Snowman Joe

  The Murder of Loyalty

  The Prostitute Butcher

  Operation WetFish, Vampire Detective:

  Book 1: The Power of Life and Death

  Book 2: Chasing Innocence

  Book 3: The Hunt for Charles Baronaire

  Book 4: Christmas on the Kerb

  Book 5: A Necessary Evil

  Book 6: No Comment

  Book 7: Fear and Ecstasy

  Book 8: Call of the Siren

  Book 9: Happy Families

  Book 10: A Step in the Right Direction

  Book 11: What Money Can’t Buy

  Book 12: ‘Tis the Season

  Book 13: The Power Trip

  Book 14: Trust and Betrayal

  Book 15: A Gathering of Minds

  Miscellaneous:

  Holding the Nuts

  One Week to Love: Speed Dating of the Gods

  The Trojan Ant

  Gauntlet of Daedalus

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