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As John&039;s body got it on with Xhex&039;s, his mind briefly retreated to that ree to their arrangement

Sure, he&039;d sounded all lay-down-the-law, but the truth was he&039;d had no leverage: She was either going to go with it or not, and if she didn&039;t, he had nothing to hold over her Bottom line? There was absolutely no threat of withdrawal, no proactive anything, no if-this-then-that he could bring to the situation

And that hat had dawned on him while he&039;d sat on the sofa in the billiard roo, he&039;d heard Rehvenge&039;s voice in his head, over and over again

Her end game doesn&039;t include anyone but herself

John was not a fool, and he was not prepared to let his bonding for her paralyze him anyetting it done if they worked together After all, this wasn&039;t any ordinary lesser they were going after

Besides, the story of the two of thee of collision; they were ever crashing into each other and ricocheting away-- only to find themselves pulled back into another i he could do to change that But he could sure as shit cut the bungee cord that was torturing him

Man, he wished that tattoo of his weren&039;t perain, at least it was on his back and he didn&039;t have to look at the goddaet Lash and then go their separate ways And between now and then? Well

John let his thoughts drift away as he reconnected with the surging sex and the roaring taste in hisscent rising frooing to allow his head to get scraer

Bonded h--and a huge part of hioddamn it He was a survivor

As he ht hold, his cock was a solid shaft of power and another release soon sla the seal on her vein, he lapped the punctures with his tongue and then latched onto one of her breasts With a shift of his leg, he split her thighs farther apart and rolled onto his back so she was on top

Xhex took it fro her hips on the base of her spine, her tight sto as she rode hihs and squeezed, herunder his hold, and he didn&039;t stop there He drew his hands farther up, to the juncture where her legshim to where they were joined

His thumb slipped into the carnal heart of her and found the top of her sex, rubbing it in circles--

In the dis cranking down on her lower lip in an effort to keep herself fro out He wanted to tell her to let her roar free, but he didn&039;t have ti shut as he shuddered beneath her

Catching his breath, he felt her pause to breathe deep and then she was changing position

When he opened his eyes, he nearly orgas on his legs, balancing her weight on his shins With her feet up by his sides, he got one hell of a show and that was before she startedshiny and thick froe of his cock head, pitched him off into another release

She didn&039;t stop

He didn&039;t want her to

John neededthe tips of her breasts and the thrust of her chin and the sth of her body as she had him deep and hard He wanted to stay captured in her forever

But that was his proble here and now

They cli onto her slender ankles and herto let his name out of her throat

Afterward, there was nothing but a lot of heavy breathing and air that seeed the on the floor beside the bed without a sound

As she looked over her shoulder, her spine twisted in an elegant curve "Can I use your shower?"

When he nodded, she walked with confident, long strides into his bathroom--and in spite of all the sex they&039;d just had, he felt a driving need to take her fro water sounded and then her voice echoed "The huot John out of bed and hungry for more intel As he came into the bath, she turned around under the showerhead and arched back to rinse the shampoo he used out of her hair

"The place was crawling with cops, but the new initiates were hidden in the sah blood to paint a house red No sign of Lash, but there was a drive-by of a street racer with so that smelled like fake strawberries behind the wheel I called Rehv with the license plate number to pass on to Vishous and I&039;ll ht now"

When she looked over at hiht falls

"Yup We do"

Qhuinn woke up alone, having sent Layla back to the Far Side after they had done a little ht away, but a goodbye es

She was still a virgin, though

Not untouched, any longer, but defo still a virgin Seemed like there were two people in the world he couldn&039;t have sex with The trend continued and he was going to end up celibate

As he sat up, his head pounded, proof positive that Herradura was an opponent of worth

Rubbing his face, he thought back to kissing the Chosen He&039;d taught her how to do it properly, how to suck and stroke, how to open the way for soue, how to penetrate a mouth when she wanted to Female learned fast

And yet it hadn&039;t been hard to keep things froe to seal the deal was the way she stared at hihith this sex- ploration shit, he&039;d assu for the practical course after all her textbook training But on her side, there had quickly been et stars in them, like he was the key to the door that kept her locked in herself, like he alone held the power to spring her dead bolt and set her free

Like he was her future

Rather ironic because, on paper, she was his ideal fe problem permanently

Except his heart wasn&039;t in it

So yeah, no way he was taking on the responsibility for her hopes and drea all the ith her She was already being seduced by a fantasy of hiet worse: When you didn&039;t know any better, that kind of physical rush could easily be ful

Hell, that sort of delusion could happen between two people who had experience

Like that chick at the tat place, for instance, slipping hi her before, during, or after He couldn&039;t even remember her nahtest Any wouy she didn&039;t know in a public place with three other males around was not someone he needed to have a relationship with

Harsh? Yes Double standard? Not a chance He had no respect for hied his o, filthy standards with any less distaste

And besides, Layla had no clue what he&039;d been doing with humans since his transition all the sex in bathrooms and alleys and dark corners of clubs, that dirtyable to know exactly what to do with her body

With any body Male or female

Shit Didn&039;t that make him think about how Blay had spent the day

Qhuinn fu up the text that Blay had sent froain

Had to have come from Saxton&039;s phone

Probably typed out on the guy&039;s bed

Qhuinn tossed his BlackBerry onto his table and stood up In the bathroohts out because he was sooo not interested in what he looked like in the jeans and shirt he&039;d slept in

Hothis face, a subtle whirring sound e fro off his chin and a can of Barbasol in his ht, the buds on the silver-trunked birches by thehad co the day had been a warnored any parallel to Blay&039;s being awakened to his own sexuality

By Qhuinn&039;s own cousin

Disgusted with himself, he skipped the razor action and stalked out of his rooiven that the baro hievity of his optic nerves

Down in Fritz&039;s fiefdo First Meal Good thing they were already so preoccupied Sometimes, when you felt like shit inside and out, you wanted to work your own Krups

Pride mattered in h the park, he forgot to add the grounds, so all he got was a nice, stea

He was co thermos full of dark brown miracle juice and a bottle of aspirin when the door to the vestibule was opened by Fritz