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No, Jae at the other alien ht live

Save her, and you are lost Kill her, and then perhaps you both shall live The other iht her in his arh the voice and the wind and the darkness Ja blindly on top of hi her still until she opened her eyes and stared down at his face "I have you"

She looked up and all around at the boat’s cabin before she collapsed against hi her so that he could hold her as he braced his back against the frame of the bunk He felt as weak as if he had not fed for a month, and it took all his self-discipline to stifle the tre a night herself into the curve of his arm "What was that?"

"Not a dream" The rapid beat of her heart distracted hih her limbs Wherever they touched, it pulsed beneath the thin silk of her skin "It felt like the nightlands"

"That’s where you go when you sleep?" She shuddered "I’d rather stay awake for eternity"

Exhaustion and hunger e into his " He needed to put her aside, moor the boat, and leave her to hunt And as soon as his head cleared, he would

She lifted her face froht the Kyn were the only ones who could cross over into the nightlands Why was I there? Jaive uely alarmed to discover he could not "Go to the helm, Christian, and take care of the boat I will rest now"

She ignored hiers to his neck "Damn it, you barely have a pulse"

Jaish flow of need That he couldn’t act on it was his only relief He would rest through the daylight hours, and when he woke, he would hunt

The unyielding wood made a poor pillow, he decided, until he felt war much softer

"You’re a lot heavier than you look" Cloth slid from beneath his cheek "Well, Burke said not to let it show"

Her words made no sense to him, but he smelled her blood spill into the air a moment before a drop of it touched the corner of his mouth Jamys tried to turn his head away, but her hand prevented it

"Right now you need it more than I do," she chided softly "Go on Drink"

Her co of all his resolve; his lips sought the source of the blood and covered it The taste of her er to penetrate and take s of his strength to only suckle at the sth into hiht up his hands, expecting to feel her forearht h He raised his head to look at what she had done to herself, and saw a sh up on the inside of her thigh She had cut herself for hiently pressing as if to urge hiht He ran the flat of his tongue over the wound, gathering the bright red beads that had welled there, and heard the soft sound sheher body’s scent, and followed it until his e of her panties The sharp points of his fangs easily sliced through the flimsy fabric, and he peeled it back froers curled into his hair "Burke didn’t mention this"

He looked up at her flushed, startled face before he deliberately pressed his mouth to the center of her dark curls "And this?"

"Not a word" She watched hiue to part her, she shivered "Jarance of her desire, and look upon her hidden beauties If she were his, he would take her away to some sultry deserted island where they would never have to wear clothing, and he could look upon her and touch her and take her whenever he wished

Jaainst his palainst his skin He eased two fingertips between her folds and found the slick entrance to her body, which instantly clenched around hihs and the tightening of her belly, but when he glanced at her face, he saw only longing and excitement

"Do you like that?" he murmured

"No" A dimple appeared in her cheek "I love that"

Slowly he pushed his fingers deeper, penetrating her sheath and filling her soft, wet channel When she tightened again, he put his ue and rubbing the small, hooded nub of her clit Like a pearl it swelled and e with her heart

As he lavished long, slow strokes of his tongue on her, he used his fingers to play within her, turning therip of her body