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She kissed him passionately, then pulled back "What have you done tohim

"It’s not exactlyI can’t help"

Shehis body burn even more "I need you insideher Rolling her over, he curled his body around hers as they lay with her back to his front He draped her leg over his waist

He tucked her head beneath his chin and held her close as he drove hirowled at the warm, wet feel of her while she leaned her head back into his shoulder and cried out

Channon had never felt anything like this No ht hip was braced against his inner thigh while he used his left knee to hold her left leg up so that he had access to her body froed it, but his strokes were deep and even, and they tore through her with the most intense pleasure she had ever known He was so hard inside her, so thick and warm

And she wanted more of his touch More of his power

He slid his hand down over her stos She hissed and writhed as pleasure tore through her while his fingers rubbed her in time to his strokes And still it felt as if a thousand hands caressed her, as if she were being bathed all over by his touch, his scent

Out of her mind with ecstasy, she met him lush stroke for lush stroke Her body felt as if it held a life of its own, as if the pleasure of her was its own entity She needed even more of him

Sebastian ed by her response to him No human woman had ever been like this If he didn’t know better, he’d swear she was part Drakos She dug her nails into the flesh of the arain she screa spell around the, he s his partner, and with Channon he took even htly in his ar his lips in a frenzied kiss

Sebastian cupped her face as he quickened his strokes and buried hiood to hi So per­fect

He held her close against hihtened even h his senses,hi him

The beast in him roared and snapped in satisfaction while the man buried hiasm With the two parts of him sated and united, it was the roaned as she felt his release inside her Still wrapped around her, he pulled her even closer to his chest She heard his ragged breathing and felt his heart pounding against her shoulder blade Theher want to stay cocooned by his body forever

Slowly, the throbbing pleasure faded from her and left her weak and drained fro

When he withdrew from her, she felt a tremendous sense of loss

"What did you do toonto her back to look at him

He kissed his way across her collarbone to her lips "I did nothing, ma petite It was all you"

’Trust hed softly in her ear

She sold medallion he wore around his neck Odd, she hadn’t noticed it before

She traced the chain with her fingers, then took it into her hand It was obviously quite old Ancient Greek if she didn’t on coiled around a shield "This is beautiful," she breathed

Sebastian looked down at her hand and covered her fingers with his "It belonged towhy he spoke of it It was so he’d never shared with anyone else "I don’t really reive it to me so that I would kno much she loved me"

"She died?"

He nodded "I was barely six when" His voice trailed off as his ht scorched him Inside his head he could still hear the screa and smell the fires He reme him to safety

He’d always lived with the horrors of that night close to his heart Tonight, with Channon, it didn’t sees on his face "I’m sorry," she whispered, and inside his heart, he could feel her sincerity "I was nine when my mother died of cancer And there’s always this little piece of me that wishes I could hear the sound of her voice just one reith o"

He felt her ache inside his own heart and it surprised him He hated that she was alone in the world Like hi his arms, he let his body coue around and into her ear, sending chills over her She leaned into his ar kiss A tiny part of her wanted to beg hi But she refused to eht would be all they would ever have Yet the thought of not seeing hiain hurt herhi a vital part of herself

Sebastian knew he should leave now, but soer until dawn He still had to re­trieve the tapestry and return hoht now, all he wanted was to spend a littleher in the warm shelter of his arms

"Sleep, Channon," he whispered as he sent a s at hio

Imers over the delicate curve of her cheek as he watched her She was so beautiful by his side

He clenched his hand against her silken curls and took a deep breath in her hair Her floral scent rehter and friendship Her bare hips were nestled perfectly against his groin, her lower back against his stos were entwined with his masculine ones Gods, how he ached to keep her here like this

He felt hiain He felt the need within hiation

You o

Asin regret, he withdrew from the warht they had shared He would never forget her And for the first ti back here for a while

But that was impossible

His kind didn’t do well in the modern world, where they were easily hunted and found He needed wide-open spaces and a simpler world where he could have the free­doainst the pain of necessity, he dressed silently in the dark

Sebastian stepped away from the bed, then paused