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Xhex needed intel Stat

When Xcor had deone outside the scope of her radar within seconds And yeah, she had a bead on his direction, but only an asshole wouldn&039;t cah, as she follohat she could of him, she found herself stuck on the shores of the Hudson not far froot cold at that point, and not because the frigid north as blowing down the river

She kicked a random snowdrift and paced around Retraced her steps back to the theater district Scanned the rest of the city, going rooftop to rooftop

Nothing

She ended up back on top of that building where she&039;d seen John and the others, stalking around and cursing like a sailor In the absence of physical clues, she was forced to go with the only other thing she had: the dra out her phone, she texted John and waited And waited And waited

Did they get aain Hit up Qhuinn - and got no reply

Da had happened? Just because Xcor had appeared to leave the city, that didn&039;t mean he couldn&039;t cycle around and intersect iA her tail like an idiot -

Just as she was about to start another round of near-panicked texting, John hit her back:h back on her chick-out, she took a deep breath and texted back: We need to talk about Layla Let me come to the house

It was possible that Qhuinn wouldn&039;t want to leave the Chosen in her condition, and Xhex didn&039;t want John to drag his ahstrux nohtru for a response, she flashed herself over to the mansion and strode up the steps and into the vestibule The inner door opened immediately, and Fritz appeared frazzled

"Good evening, ?"

The butler bowed and shuffled backward "Oh, indeed Yes Whom are you here to see?"

There was a time when that wouldn&039;t have been a question "John Is he at the clinic?"

"Oh no No, definitely not there He is upstairs"

Xhex frowned "Is there any probleo forth"

Bullshit there wasn&039;t so and took the stairs two at a tiot to the second floor, she hesitated

Even out in the hall, she could catch the scent of sex - a oing on Literally

And didn&039;t thatup

As she approached John&039;s door, she braced herself for whatever could be on the other side Layla was trained as an ehros, and Qhuinn had long been up for anything - and maybe this separation had led her mate into the arms of others

With a dead heart, she knocked loudly "John? It&039;s ined naked bodies freezing, people looking back and forth, John scra grids - she was too scattered to pull that off No sorting through the scents, either - she was having enough trouble staying on her feet because she knew at least one of them was John&039;s

"I know you&039;re in there"

Instead of the door opening, she got a text on her phone: Am soz - busy Can I cm find u l8r?

Fuck that and the horse it rode in on

Xhex grabbed the doorknob, twisted hard enough to break the thing off, and shoved her way -

Holy Shit

John was by hi on top of twisted sheets, his naked body gleaht that bled in fro fist locked on his thick cock the other was gripping the headboard for leverage as he worked himself, his teeth bared, theout in stark relief as he strained

Shiiiiit His lower abdoasms, and yet he seemed starved for release

Fevered eyes met hers as his hand stilled Go, he mouthed Please

She quickly stepped inside and shut the door This was not so anyone else needed to see

Please! he deht to herself, her own body responding, her own blood starting to pu over the cru in the theater district, she could think only about how much she had missed the carnal side of hi months - and yeah, it would have been far better for her to walk out, let him deal with his rock-and-a-hard-place by his lonesome, and reconvene later

But, God, she hadhis female

I can&039;t stop, he ot too close

Ah That explained it Except "Is my mother okay?"

At

Jane&039;s, and yes

God, that poor feain after all she&039;d been through But at least Jane would ease the suffering - assuetting close to that one

Xhex, you have to go

"What if I don&039;t want to"

At that, his body undulated wildly, sure as if she were already touching hi up and down as he came all over the muscled expanse of his lower belly

Well, wasn&039;t that a very well-spoken answer: He wanted her, too

Xhex stepped up to the edge of the bed and reached out, brushing his churning thigh with her fingertips The light contact was enough to keep his release going, his hips thrusting up, his sex kicking, his warrior body contracting as the pleasure rocked through hi hand aside and captured hiht way as he thrashed in the sheets And as soon as he was done, at least with that particular release, he stilled for only a nanosecond before sitting up and reaching for her

She went to hi hi, familiar hands, roamed everywhere until they settled on her ass, and jacked her upward so he could nestle his face into her breasts -

With a quick slash of his fangs, he bit through her , and licking as she helped hi her weapons, and -

John flipped her over onto her back and snarled soundlessly at her leathers

Things didn&039;t go well for the about all the get-naked that was happening At least he knew better than to h

As soon as they were in position, he pushed into her with a jab, and the sting of the stretch was enough to throw her right into a bone-bending orgas each other while she cried out

And still he kept riding her, the relentless pounding giving her s, she waited until he paused for ahi him flat on the mattress so she could straddle hiainst his throat, she resu her doorking his erection

John&039;s surrender to her was coth ceded to her, his body hers to use until she drained him dry up at his neck and down at his hips

As she took hi out of the warmth all over her

How in the world could she ever live without hi his throat te her face into his shoulder as things got so violent she couldn&039;t keep contact with his throat But she knew his vein was hers for the taking, as soon as it was over

Man, life was complicated But the truth was simple

He was her hoed

Rolling to the side, she encouraged him to follow her, and he came with her as easy as water, as hot as fire It was his turn to feed and given the way his eyes zeroed in on her jugular, he agreed with her

"Let me seal you first," she said as she went for her puncture marks

He took her wrist and held her back, shaking his head No - I want to bleed for you

Xhex closed her eyes, her throat tightening

It was hard to say where this was going to lead them, because she never would have predicted their split in the first place But it was so daood to be home even if this was just a short stay

Hours passed, the night waning and dawn arriving; and then the sun rose frohts, washing the snow-covered ht

Autumn was unaware of any of this - and that would have been true whether she was down in the clinic or up at the ht as well have been directly in the sunshine

She was on fire

The blazing heat in her wo to heights thatfor her, before easing off just enough so she could catch her breath and prepare for the next peak And as with labor, the cycling persisted, thefarther and farther apart until the pain of the need filled out the contours of her body and took over all ht

It had not been like this before Back when she&039;d been with that sy

Or half this long

After however many hours of torture, she had no more tears left, no more sobs, not even any twitches She just lay in stillness, barely breathing, her heartbeat sluggish, her eyes closed as her body was yet assaulted internally

It was hard to pinpoint exactly when the tipping point cas and the burning in her pelvis drifted away, the rigors of the needing replaced with an abiding soreness in her joints and hershe&039;d done

When she could finally raise her head, her neck cracked loudly, and she groaned as her face hit a wall of so, she tried to orient herself oh, indeed, she was at the foot of the bed, pressed up against the short board at its end

She laid her head back down for a while With the boiling heat easing to a an to feel cold, and she fumbled around for a sheet, or a blanket, or a cover of any sort There was nothing - all was on the floor: She was naked on a bare mattress - clearly she&039;d ripped off even the fitted sheet

Suy she had, she attempted to push her torso up and lift her head Sheher down

Eventually, she rose up

The trip to the bathroom was as arduous and treacherous as a hike up a mountainside, but lo, the joy hich she beheld the shower and turned it on

As teenerously from the spout anchored upon the wall, she sat down on the tile beneath it, tucking her heels up against her botto herself around her knees As she laid her head to the side, the gentle spray washed away the salt of her tears and her sweat

The shivers turned violent shortly thereafter

"Autumn?" came Doc Jane&039;s voice fro teeth prevented her froh: The other female appeared in the doorway, and then ventured further into the bath, until she pulled back the cloth curtain and knelt down so they were eye-to-eye