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“I wouldn’t change it for the world I tried toI wrote a reverse ‘fantasy’ in the Dooically manufactured”

“They’re not I swear”

She sent hirowl, he pulled her against him “Don’t you have an answer for me? Do you know the words?”

She nodded “Brareat library” Happiness broke over her face, like the sun fro in joy “As I becoood, and true I heed your call ’Tis you I seek From this moment on, there is no other for me but you”

A powerful jolt slammed into Caden’s body, and his sense of Sydney as hisinto his heart She had been iasped, clearly feeling it as well

But with the sealing of their bond ca need—to test her, taste her, claiy shirt off one shoulder to reveal a bare breast, then he cupped it

“Caden! They’re going to come back We should focus on—”

He cut her speech off with a kiss, deep, blistering, the kind that sent sizzle all the way through his body Slowly, she ainst him

Caden eased back until he sat on the roo her down to straddle his lap Narrow and squat, the little bed wasn’t the haven he wanted the first ti to quibble She was in his arer if he joined with her first

“This ainst her mouth “Our only chance Let rabbed Caden’s sweater, tugging and pulling until she ed to yank it over his head Rapaciously, she ran her hands over his hands and shoulders, and he thanked his years of daily running and training in the Marines and beyond that kept him in shape

But he wasn’t content to just have her hands on higed the large sweatpants down one thigh Another adjustment, and his own pants rested south of his hips

As he brought her back to his lap, he captured her ain, brushed his knuckles over her collarbone, across her nipple, skipped the shirt covering her abdohs Slick, stea to separate her froer Keep hiic But he’d been foolish, wasting tied to escape this place in one piece, he’d never waste another second together If they didn’the didn’t regret their ertips over her clit, he basked in her sighs and moans She ed his fingers inside her and rubbed her sweet spot

Her fingernails found their way into his shoulders, and he sent kisses The sht hiserection, and pushed her hips down to it

Slowly, she sank over hi and a pleasure unlike any he’d ever known His mate His No matter what

Their ti her hips, he tutored her in a long, slow stroke as he brushed his lips over hers again, then settled deep,his biceps, she stroked her way up and down his cock, and the inferno-hot pleasure singed hirew pink, then flushed a darker rose Her nipples swelled, her head tipped back, and she looked like the ulti His

Caden’s heart swelled with need, with love His body did the saas her fingers deeper into hi his name Caden curled his arms around her and fused his mouth to hers as her sex clamped down on him He sed her scream of pleasure and joined her over the abyss, in an ecstasy that not only suffused him with a warm satiation—but a jolt of power so intense, it nearly overpowered his systeave hith He was deter love as mates, it damn ouldn’t be their last

Quietly, they dressed, pausing to kiss He touched her, wrapped her in his embrace to reassure her, then sat on the bed to cuddle her in his lap

“Caden?” she turned worried brown eyes on hi on her mind It was on his too But daic that hiswoht

“Shh It’s not over”

“Your time alone is” A man’s voice intruded on their intimate cocoon Shock Then he opened the cell and motioned to Sydney “Come with me”

CHAPTER TWENTY

SYDNEY TREMBLED AS SHOCK HELD her by the elbow and dragged her toward theme?”

“Where Mathias asked uilt, incensed her Rage bottled up inside her, then she wondered why she was keeping a cork on it She was going to die, regardless Why not tell Shock what toilet scu innocent people be tortured to death? Or you just don’t care?”

He glared down his shoulder at her, his expression unreadable “You’re playing ga people who count on you”

“More than you know,” he ed her behind hi roolass, and chro, his expression cool but i the depth of his rage And it scared the hell out of her The Doomsday Diary sat on the table in front of him The half-dressed witch who’d taken the book from Sydney slept in a corner At least she hoped the woman was asleep

Shock shoved her into a chair across fros are too frequent, my dear,” he said

“Rhea is unable to use the book Everything she writes disappears I cannot see the words at all Care to explain?”

Sydney glanced at Shock As long as the traitor was here, she stood no chance of keeping her thoughts to herself “I just wrote what I wanted in the book andpoof”

“It calanced at Shock

“She’s telling the truth as she knows it” Shock supplied

Mathias relaxed against the back of the sofa “It’s possible that larger anize”

Shock nodded “She was looking only for a shag Hardly difficult rin stretched across the evil wizard’s mouth as he turned to her “If you need a e”

E “I don’t”

“I can change your ardless of whether your newin the cell downstairs or not”

How did he know?

“Your nature,” Shock said “You now have one that brands you as Caden’s Most anyone ical can see it”