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Kat flashed back to Simi&039;s room first to make sure the two of them were fine, especially Simi She didn&039;t know if the deht her that Simi took the death of her friends extreht of before she&039;d sent her to Olympus with Kytara&039;s body

But as soon as Kat entered the roo Xirena had ordered roo their way through it

"Fighting ry," Xirena explained as she paused while eating a ha to pursue the matter any further than the fact that the demons were occupied and she hadn&039;t scarred Simi

Kat left the sprawled across the bed, fully dressed It looked as if he&039;d just laid down for a second, only to succumb to exhaustion Her heart broke for hih soher limited powers, she stripped his clothes so that he could lie ht he made naked He really did have one of the best bodies she&039;d ever seen on a man From the broadness of his battle-scarred shoulders to the deep indentation of his abs, he was yummy And it took all her willpower not to nip at that bronzed skin with her teeth Really, he was as teh at her bad pun before she brushed her hand through his silken curls

"How did it go?"

The deep ruht you were asleep"

"I was until you touched , he rolled over onto his back

Kat arched a brow at the sight of another part of his body that had also awakened "You sure you&039;re not Priapus?"

He snorted at that but made no move to cover himself "Last I heard, that fool was trapped in a book to be a sex slave to women Definitely not ave her a ful look

His expression iven?"

Sin caught hiht-I can only wish that I could stay ue, but he didn&039;t dare speak the he needed was for her to know exactly how e could only come back to bite him, most likely on the ass

"Maybe," he whispered as she leaned over hientle kiss to his lips

"I ain, Sin"

"And I want to believe you I know you ht an kissing her way down his chest

Sin sucked his breath in as his head swam from the heat of her lips on his skin There was truly no better feeling than to have her with hierous to hi this badly itthat, he washer way over his chest Her soft hand cupped his she evoked as she made love to him

He arched his back as she took hi, he cupped her head in his hand He was in heaven at thebefore it turned into hell

Every woht hiht hihter love and Artemis betrayal

What would Katra teach him when all was said and done? That hat he was terrified of He&039;d let her into a place in his heart that he&039;d never allowed another being

And she had the power to destroy hiroaned at the taste of Sin, at the hooded look of pleasure on his face as he watched her She wasn&039;t really sure what she was doing, but he see it and that was all that h she didn&039;t deserve it, and she wanted to make amends for what she&039;d done to him

If she ever could

She&039;d always been so afraid of giving herself over to aone to hold any part of her, that she couldn&039;t believe how easily Sin had wormed his way into her heart What was it about him that touched her so deeply? Thatto please hi what she felt No denying the joy that so as minuscule as a smile from him could evoke

His eyes were on fire as he pulled her up his body to kiss her He rolled with her until she was beneath him She sensed a desperation within him, an unnamed need

But when he entered her, all she could feel from him hat she felt inside herself-the love she had for him It was incredible

Sin made love to her furiously as she ran her hands over his back and lifted her hips to drive hiry for him as he was for her, and that stunned him Sure, he&039;d had other lovers more skilled and those who practically raped him in their fervor But that wasn&039;t the same as what he had with Kat This wasn&039;t two people scratching a mutual itch This o people who cared for each other

And she loved him-that hat she&039;d said No woman had ever told hi for him to accept, but still he wanted to believe it desperately

Tenderness for her overwhel-buried dreams rushed fronize He wanted to have a future with her

A faht jolted him so hard that he actually slid out of her for a ? That would be all kinds of stupid

Yet he wondered what a child with her would be like Fair like its mother or dark like hi was that it would be a part of hi into an old wo tea cozies and clipping coupons

Or worse, wearing a pink bathrobe with fuzzy slippers

Kat felt a strange shift in Sin&039;s touch He cradled her body tenderly against his and it ainst her This hat she wanted What she needed Until hiine ever feeling like this toward anyone else

She wanted to hold him forever To keep him close to her and to protect hiled as all her senses swirled together In a bolt of white-hot pleasure, her orgas her head back, Kat screamed in ecstasy

Sin continued to thrust until he joined her there in paradise

He collapsed against her, holding her tight while she listened to his heart pounding against her breast and his breath tickled her neck

"I think," she whispered in his ear, "you&039;ve broken s and I have no desire to ever leave this bed again"

He laughed "Can I sleep up here?"

"Unant gape "Heavy? I&039;ll have you know-"

"You&039;re six feet, seven inches Your bones alone weigh a ton"

"And what about you?"

"I&039;m heavy, too, but I want on top"

He nibbled at her lips "Fine I&039;ll make a deal with you then feel free to climb on top of me any time you want to" He rolled over then and pulled her across his body

S, Kat settled down by his side "Oh yeah, this is perfect" She splayed her hand over his chest and ht in the feel of his skin under her palm

Sin couldn&039;t breathe as he felt the heat of her body pressed up against his as she told him about Xypher and what she&039;d accomplished in Hades While she talked, the scent of her body hung heavy in Sin&039;s head and, to his surprise, he could feel his cock starting to harden again

How could that be? And yet he couldn&039;t deny what he felt Some alien part of himself needed her more than his body needed to breathe

Katra had a hold on hiin to understand But that sae that hold for anything And when she slid herself over him to feed, he felt an inexplicable closeness to her It was like they were sharingsouls

And as he lay there, lost in the scent and sensation that was Katra, he drifted off to sleep

Well fed and sated, Kat sht snore It was a sweet sound that quickly lulled her to sleep But unlike the wonderful sharing that had zapped her strength, her dreaallu co down the Dimme to kill them

If only she kneas a dream and not a premonition

Kat woke up to an eht and war around outside Srabbed Sin&039;s button-down shirt fro it unbuttoned to hopefully entice him back to bed before she went to sneak up on him

She opened the door and s her lip, she snuck up to hihtened

Kat squeaked in alarh at this angle to be Sin Kish turned around with a frown that turned to a gasp as he saw her nearly naked state

Embarrassed to the depth of her soul, she ran toward the safety of the bedroom and slammed the door

"Kat," he said fro Really"

"Yeah, right"

"Okay, look I will never ad Please don&039;t tell Sin or he&039;ll gouge out rowled as she snatched up her clothes and dressed, only to re them But at this point, she was so rattled, she didn&039;t knohat she was doing "Why are you here?"

"I was cleaning up Sin won&039;t let housekeeping in He doesn&039;t trust them"

Kat snatched open the door "He doesn&039;t trust anyone"

"True And I was keeping breakfast warm for you Sin told me he&039;d have my balls if I didn&039;t take care of you Personally, I like ood care of you in a purely platonic way"

He was an odd yet strangely aallu destruction with Damien He said that you needed to rest and that I wasn&039;t to disturb you I didn&039;t, did?"

"Not until a second ago"

He gave her a really pained expression "You&039;re going to get ht about it hard But in the end, she wasn&039;t that mean "No"

He let out a relieved breath as he backed up toward the bar "I didn&039;t knohat you liked so I ordered sos nine different ways, bagels you naure whatever you don&039;t eat we can feed to the demons"

Kat smiled in spite of herself "I&039;m sure they&039;d appreciate it"

"You have no idea The kitchen staff is going wild about the orders they&039;re placing We&039;ve had to import extra cooks from other casinos and restaurants for the two of therab a piece of toast "I&039;ll just take sos, bacon, and toast with juice"

"Great Sit right there"-he indicated a bar stool at the counter-"and I&039;ll take care of it" He pointed toward the toast in her hand "Jelly, jam, or butter?"

"None of that, thank you I like it plain"

He held up two thumbs "Works for me"

Kat took another bite as she watched hiht such a quirky person into Sin&039;s service "So have you been with Sin long?"

Kish shrugged "A few thousand years, give or take a decade or two"

She choked at his unexpected response She&039;d assu "Get out Really?"

"That&039;s why he trusts me" He set the plate down in front of her, then added the silverware and a linen napkin

"But you&039;re human, aren&039;t you?"

He nodded " I&039; Even I don&039;t want to be around myself then"

Normally that would have amused her However, she now had a mystery to solve "But if you&039;re hurinned and winked at her "I&039;m a s he&039;d spilled while filling her plate before he answered "Back in the day, I e for iaze and she saw and felt his aded "I never asked for the details I was too afraid to find out what it had cost him All I know is he bartered to free me and I&039;ve been with hi I wouldn&039;t do for that man"

She could understand that and had to adh centuries to know that most people, even when bailed out by someone, tended to turn on them for no apparent reason as soon as they had the chance It said a lot for Kish&039;s character that he was still here and still acknowledged the debt he owed Sin "How did you ht came into Kish&039;s eyes as he covered up the leftover food "Sags That wasn&039;t what she expected Kish to say "And he let you live?"

"Freaky, huh?" Kish laughed before he continued "Sin lives his entire life up to his eyeballs in death Believe it or not, he saves everyone he can, when he can I hadn&039;t been bitten by my demon yet and so he was able to pull me out Most of the people, and I use that term loosely, ork beloe Sin their lives in one way or another"

Wow She was ah he tried to keep his distance from others especially after all the betrayal in his life The fact that he would still reach out to help another

He was incredible and it made her love him all the ain "But how can you still be alive?"

"Sin was the god of the calendar year Even though Arteet them all, and that was one he se cycle Not as effectively as he could when he was a Su"

That was a neat power to have "Couldn&039;t he do that for Damien?"

"No They tried it once and it almost killed him Damien&039;s cursed-that&039;s a whole other animal to skin, and Sin&039;s powers don&039;t extend to it"

"But he saved you," she said, her heart ood man"

He scoffed at her "I was the worst sort of trash A liar, a thief For pocket change I would have cut the throat of anyone, man, woman child It didn&039;t matter I&039;m not proud of what I was Had Sin cut my throat and left me for dead, I would have deserved it" He looked up, his eyes filled with turmoil "I&039;ve never been able to understand why he saved me God knows I didn&039;t deserve it I had no concept of compassion until he spared my life"

The more Kat learned about Sin, the more she was amazed by him And she wanted to fully understand what had made Sin spare Kish She reached out and touched Kish&039;s arm In an instant, she was there in thatwhile Sin stood over hi the knife he&039;d taken from Kish&039;s hand while Kish had tried his best to kill him

"Do it," Kish had snarled

Sin had pulled the smaller man up from the street by his tunic front He held Kish by his fist as he stared into Kish&039;s dark eyes And it was then Sin saw the life Kish had lived The terror, the pain A runaway slave, he&039;d lived his life wanting freedoht for, and it resonated in Sin&039;s own soul He understood just howso inconsequential could mean

Sin had set Kish on his feet "Life only has the value a person gives it If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no one would mourn you Is that truly what you want?"

Kish had curled his lip at Sin "I don&039;t ownto anyone" Sin had narrowed his gaze on Kish "But if you had your life again, would it still be worthless?"

"I don&039;t understand riddles I&039;m only a servant"

"Servant or master, you&039;re not stupid The question is siive you back your life, will you throw it away again or will you ?"

Kish hadn&039;t spoken, but the hopeful glimmer in his eyes had said it all And so Sin had spared hio of Kish&039;s arm and sust "You know that&039;s kind of rude to spy on someone like that and not to ask Not to mention really intrusive"

"I&039;m sorry I just wanted to know"

And still he looked less than placated "So that&039;s supposed to excuse you just traipsing into et it Damn, you are a lot like Sin I proain"

"Good, &039;cause I didn&039;t like it Hoould you feel if I went frolicking through your past without your permission?"

"Kish"

Heyou should put a leash on that power That&039;s all"

She held her hands up in surrender "It is leashed Now drop the subject or I&039;ll tell Sin you&039;ve seen me naked"

That instantly cleared the sullen look "I will never bring this topic up again Oh wait What topic? I have Alzhei at all" He ran to the food and held up one of the silver doed the subject, "Do you want the rest of this or can I take it to the demons now?"

"Have at it"

If a man could leave skid marks, Kish would have as he whisked the cart out of the roo at his haste, Kat finished her breakfast, showered, then dressed before she headed downstairs to find Sin, as supposed to be in Da at his desk, talking on his cell phone

He hung up the instant she appeared

"I didn&039;t ed it off "You didn&039;t I was only bitching"

"About?"

"Sin&039;s faht they could contain and control demons"

Ah, that explained it "I have that same rant about my family some days Only mine usually involves their tempers"

Damien put his hands behind his head and leaned back in his office chair as he watched her with an odd half sallu?"

"You have a better idea?"

"Not really See my ass handed to me on a platter I don&039;t want to repeat that humiliation, if you knohat I mean"

At least he had a sense of humor about it She looked around his office that was decorated with cult urines and posters He looked so normal and nice like anyone you&039;d meet on the street, and yet at the same time he was lethal And he lived on people&039;s souls "Do you kno disturbing it is fora conversation with a Dai as it is for et used to it eventually"

"You do seehtened up in his chair "We all do e have to, to survive"

"I suppose, and speaking of survival, have you seen Sin?"

Dahtened a stack of folders on his desk "He left a short while back, why?"

"I was just wondering Any idea where he went?"

He shrugged "We were talking about next week&039;s schedule when he got that weird deets whenever they&039;ve busted loose Told me to stay here and that he&039;d be back"

She was surprised by that "You let hiiven the fact that it was in this ti outside called the sun yeah Burnt-up Daimon wouldn&039;t be helpful to nobody, least of all aze on hied her name out the same way she&039;d done his "What?"

"Why didn&039;t you co out alone?"

" &039;Cause he does it all the ti about it But now that you&039;re here I&039;llhe does That way you can cut his meat up for dinner and help him tie his shoes and use the potty, too"

She wasn&039;t sure if she should be irritated or entertained "You know, I never thought I&039;d ever erously close"

He sot up and pulled his jacket from the back of his chair "Now if you&039;ll excuse o make rounds on the floor See you later"

Kat shook her head as he left her alone in his office She had a childish urge to boot up his co files, but she was above that

At least for theher eyes, she used her powers to find him She honed in and flashed herself to his side Or rather, a few feet fro hi he orth

It wasn&039;t until she took a step closer that she realized the allu Even so, Sin was relentless as he rained blow after blow on hiht in Central Park

"Sin!" she snapped, trying to get hiot in one last blow before he did as she asked When he turned to face her, his expression was hell born and honestly scared her He set fire to the demon with relish

When they&039;d firstsuch a thing as this, but she&039;d learned enough about hiood reason "What happened?"

"He was trolling a day care"