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Sharp

Deep

Irrevocable

CHAPTER 9

The first hot rush of Melena’s blood over his tongue slaht train Warm, rich, potent And laced with the sweetest trace of cararance that had tempted him from the moment he’d first encountered it Now that scent would call hi of cool, pure water

He would feel her in his blood, everything she experienced most intensely would now echo in his veins Her joy, her sorrow, her fears Her hungers Melena owned him now

The bond he’d just activated inside him was unbreakable She had been a distraction to hisaddiction

And although better than a thousand years’ of logic strove to persuade him that Melena’s blood was a shackle he shouldn’t want and damned well didn’t need, the part of him that was purely male, eleht he would utter again: Mine

He had known this feeling before But what he had with Melena noas all the roaned with possessive pleasure, knocked off his axis with a force that staggered him

Amazed hi for her Twenty years of feeding froreedily froed into his body, nourishing his cells as it wrapped silken bonds around his soul

She was his Even if his mind and ere reluctant to accept that fact, his body kneith a ferocity he could hardly contain now And where his desire for her had been consuhts ago, noas a raging inferno that deely

Needed her with a fury that left hi

He realized in that moment that it wasn’t only the blood bond that lashed her to hiiven in to his thirst for her tonight

As unwelco as he found it, to think that she had obliterated his long-standing, iron resolve--it was a truth Lazaro could not deny