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"Are we sharing excerpts from our diaries now? Do you want to tell iveheavily, blood rushing through her veins
She was like a lick of flaain … kiss her … taste her … He leaned down, needing her, desperate, lost--
"McKell," she rasped "Answer"
He straightened with a jerk, then stepped away They hadn’t soagain All over If he wasn’t careful, he would be on her
"No, we are not going to share our diary excerpts now We’re going to leave"
"What?"
"You heardhallways of her building, painfully aware of the plain gray walls, the scratches in thethe concrete floors, and then outside, into the cooling night air Garbage bags lined the sidewalks Pickup was to other indelicate things, and her cheeks heated
Doesn’t matter This was ho, anyway? He was still shirtless, that bone necklace clanging with his every step, and people were staring Male, fenized a threat, and the females spotted possible prey Unable to stop herself, Ava hissed at them all
Finally, in front of a nearby alley, he settled and crooked his finger at a worocery bags, but that didn’t dissuade her fro the street as if in a trance Maybe she was The bastard had powers Ava hadn’t known about He’d told her to place her hand in his, and she hadn’t been able to prevent herself fro so
If he had told her to stab herself, she would have done that, too
He was far erous than she’d realized Far sexier, too
When he’d told her--so superiorly--that he was hungry, she’d wanted to jump up on the table and become his buffet All you can eat To have all that power at her fingertips … deerous
Poas an aphrodisiac to Ava And the thought of people seeing the she had been the one fe The pride she would feel … the respect she would gain, she ht never know it’s equal
The shaentled him No one would ever be able to do so And he was a criet of AIR If she needed the reminder a thousand times, she’d issue the rehing at her, telling her how easy she was Even though the fe with Noelle about nailing hient who slept with her targets? No, thank you She’d told herself that before, but the possibility hadn’t been as … imminent then He’d stood in front of her, the bed behind her, desire heating her up, and she’d again fought the urge to offer herself to hi that had stopped her then was the thought that he would reduce her to aless The way he’d sneered about the pizza delivery boy … his disdain for "food" had never been clearer, and it had been pretty clear before Her hands fisted
"You better not kill her," Ava gritted out
"Believe art" Bastard And if the bitch tried for anything ue necklaces were probably a lot prettier than finger necklaces
"I spoke only the truth"
Shouldn’t he deht you wanted to be more than a food source
She did That didn’t ive it But if anyone was going to love so McKell did, it should be Ava He owned her rooh, she couldn’t protest what he was about to do She’d seeiving in She was stronger now Really
The woaze detached Ava followed, studying The woh dressed just as plainly in jeans and a white T-shirt She had blond hair, cut to frame her pointed chin Sharp cheekbones, a blade of a nose Pretty, in an aristocratic kind of way
Did McKell favor that kind of look?
"You shouldn’t come when a man summons you," Ava snapped at her Just to be helpful, as she often was It had nothing to do with raging jealousy "That kind of "
The woman paid her no attention "Hi," she said to McKell, her voice sultry and inviting "It’s nice to ainst the brick wall, and Ava’s jaw clenched "Bags," he said
The woripped her shoulders and swung her around, so that he faced Ava His fangs were so long they gapped over his bottoulped as her belly quivered
"I’ to let aze never left Ava "Afterward, you’ll leaveback and never recall as done"
There was that powerful voice, washing over her, causing goose bu skin And so all over hie that ache
"Yes," the woh Her head tilted to the side "Yes"
Still McKell’s gaze remained on Ava as he descended, as those teeth sank deep, as his lips moved, as he sucked and sucked and sucked She expected his hands--those big, gorgeous hands--to caress the worip on her shoulders never even loosened
Did the fe himself? She crossed her arms over her chest, and tapped her foot
"Soed anilow So purple, so beautiful So hypnotic, dragging her down, drowning her in waves of that neediness The e her of where she ho she ho he was, and their purpose Feeding him
Me, ood, she thought, disgusted with herself Most likely, no woman had ever resisted him But all that superiority, all that disdain … no way Good Another reuys orshipped her There was no way she’d be able to s ith McKell Not that she wanted tohis up, expecting her to call and check in No, no, and no Which hy she was happy as a commitment-phobe
Despite her admiration for male power, she liked to be in control of her own life, liked her things where she left the wrong with that
But what about McKell? What did he like? How irlfriends had he had? Had he ever been in love with a vampire? A human?
Finally, he released the wo to her neck "Oh, athered her bags and sauntered off, as if nothing had happened As ordered, she never once looked back
McKell, too, stu too far He stood there a ?
Ava frowned "Are you okay?"