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Groaning, she reached down to struggle with his soaked jeans The stupid button refused to co her to madness--so she flicked out her claws and shredded the deni ridge of his impressive arousal "You decide to wear underwear today of all days," she ave her a second to breathe

Drew, she’d learned, liked to kiss And she was beco addicted to his brand of it

"Touch ainst her mouth

Oh, God, that voice

She shivered in pure sensory pleasure "I’h the fabric, she was gratified to feel his fingers lose their rhyth his free hand up to clench in her hair so he could tug back her head and devour herharder, faster Stars flickered at the corners of Indigo’s vision, but she gritted her teeth and held on--she wanted the da the underwear--with considerable care, because she so did not want to dath

He broke the kiss, re stroke, and let her push him back until she could straddle hiave her An instant later, his hands were on her hips and his erection was nudging at her, and he was thrusting into her with blunt proes of the bath, her breasts da above him as their bodies danced slick and hot beneath the water The joining was a little rough, all raw And then he closed his teeth over the delicate flesh of her breast and her body went taut in an explosion of pleasure, her ht as he crushed her to hirunt

CHAPTER 28

Having received a call from Drew after he spoke to Max, Judd made a call of his own "The Council split," he said, "how bad is it?"

"Bad The Scotts are deteret rid of Nikita for one She’s ainst Silence--and acted on them"

Judd considered what he knew of Councilor Nikita Duncan, wondered as in this for her "You can’t kill the the Ghost’s statement the last time they’d spoken

"They are a disease, a virus that feeds upon our people"

"Have you considered how close you are to the Net?" Dark patches, dead patches, that was the infor psychic network that fed the minds of millions of Psy on the planet--as if part of its psychic fabric was rotting away "The degeneration could be affecting you"

"No," the Ghost said "I am quite sane"

Judd wasn’t certain the Ghost had ever been truly sane--no one with that ical "The Council’s collapse, with no new system in place, will destabilize the Net, kill hundreds of thousands of innocents"

"Do you think I have a heart?" the Ghost asked curiously "To be affected by such a fact?"

Judd knew the Ghost was getting closer and closer to slipping over the edge--and he knew he couldn’t let him Not simply because of the rebel’s lethal power, but because Judd considered him a friend "One person," Judd said "Therepause "If there is?"

Judd’s relief was crushing "Consider that person each tier, thicker, darker "I will consider For now"

CHAPTER 29

Indigo wasn’t entirely sure how they made it from the bath to the bed, but she surfaced to find herself warm, dry, and sprawled on her front on the bed, with an equally relaxed Andrew on his back beside her Of course, one of his hands was on her butt, stroking in a way that said "th from somewhere, she poked hilobe he was caressing "Really excellent sex"

Her wolf growled, but it was all pretend Drew had wrung theto sex rin as he turned to look at her "I was just being me"

It was very close to what he’d said at the start "I’ to suddenly accept all the do "But if I’ how to deal with a lieutenant with a milewide streak of stubborn and a tendency to put up walls of ice, you better fucking learn to deal with a tracker who isn’t about to let you walk all over him"

That made her roll her eyes "The only steamroller I see around here is about six feet two and two-hundred-plus pounds of er, thatover her, petting her exposed body with an even more possessive hand "You broke my heart when you said I didn’t know about foreplay"