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Anyahis own response to her was by far less easy to handle than he had iined

His head lowered again, his lips touching hers His tongue was burning for the taste of her Desperate for another of those hot, passionate kisses, the feel of her ue

He are of the eyes that watched, yet he couldn’t draw back

“They should have protected you better, little one,” he whispered against her lush lips “They well deserved eance”

Her lashes lifted Her eyes were dark with misery, with pain, as an exhausted sob tore from her throat

“You betrayed ain, Del-Rey I can never trust you”

He stole the words He couldn’t bear to hear theer in her eyes or her voice He took his kiss Her lips parted for hiiving in to it even as she cried out in surrender And even as he kissed her, he realized there was soer, a need, a driving inferno of lust building inside him that made no sense, that defied description

He needed this woh And Del-Rey always ensured he had what he needed to survive He blaenetics Blood will tell and so, evidently, would DNA At least in soht wearily Anya ht have accepted that easier

THREE DAYS LATER

Three days She burned Flames licked over her flesh Fury, confusion, betrayal and pain ate at her ined ate at her body

It had to be the taste of his kiss, she thought She was craving it It was killing her, the need for that kiss And he kept forcing it on her, as though she actually wanted his kiss now

She paced the bedroom of the cabin she was locked in She was dressed in the soft cotton pants and T-shirt Sharone had brought her earlier

She had begged Sharone to help her escape She had it all worked out All she had to do was get to a town and contact the e They would contact her father; she could go hoado ever existed

And Sharone had been going for it Anya had seen it in her eyes until Del-Rey had stepped into the room, furious, and pulled Sharone from it

Now, she was alone Alone to think, to worry God, her father was lying in the snow bleeding, her cousins with him Her cousins had faood in Russia right now; the economy eak all over They would lose their homes They would be in the cold Her father