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Bullshit She was falling for him already Lindsay wondered if he had any idea how annihilating his occasional displays of tenderness were They knocked her on her ass every ti intiht it was a seduction tactic, but his behavior seemed devoid of ulterior motive His actions seeht that he couldn’t help but be tender with her scared herwithout a plane Fear and arousal created a potentto his powerful body, feeling every contraction of muscle as he clihtly no air passed between them, with a surety and confidence that soothed her anxiety Flushed by surging adrenaline, she grew hotter by theand her bare arht, hard tips

As they banked to the right, her shirt rode up Her breath caught at the feel of his bare flesh touching hers His skin was hot, the hard s Her hair whipped the sides of her face and her eyes closed The wind sang with soainst her flat sto perfectly th of his erection was a derowing arousal

She writhed, rubbing against the thick rigidness of his cock

They dropped several feet She screeched He n with the vehe his hold to the point of iged her chest even closer, crushing her breasts against him "Your nipples prove I’m not the only one"

They crested another hill, then swooped doard, landing neatly in a sht away Instead, she did what she’d wanted to do earlier: she pressed her nose against his skin and inhaled His fingers shoved into her hair, his palhly "How you tempt me, tzel"

"Should I be insulted or turned on when you call ue fluttered over his throbbing pulse; then she scraped her teeth gently across it

Adrian groaned "Do that again and I won’t be responsible for the gravel you may later find e around, she realized he hadn’t brought her here for an isolated tryst The dry brush and rocky ground wasn’t at all conducive to taking their clothes off

"Sentinels and lycans have very keen hearing," he explained, restoring his ih his hair "If I want to speak to you privately, I need to do so away from the house"

"What do you have to say that you don’t want thes dissipated "It isn’t what I have to say, but the manner in which I say it And how I look at you when I say it"

Her brows rose questioningly

His brilliant blue gaze swept over her, lingering on the hardened points of her nipples She pulled her shoulders back and let hi women to the house The lycans don’t knohat toclose attention tofor cues"

Lindsay tah her After a lifeti out of sync with the world, she was now somewhere she felt comfortable, a place she alone fit into Was it possible her square peg had finally found a square hole? "Of course you don’t bring wo under your roof and a pack of wolves prowling the perimeter? Unless there are others out there like me?"

"No," he said softly "I can safely say that you are unique in the entire world"

"But you’d invited on"

His arhtened his biceps and s you just know I knehen I saw you that bringing you intospecial about her"

"There was always so special about you, even then"

She turned her back to hi irrationally fast and she couldn’t seem to stop it "I can’t see how I’ll be more than a pain in the ass for you"

"As you said, they don’t see you co You can be a lure for vae Is that answer acceptable?"

Lindsay looked over her shoulder at hie hi her to draw in va with it Innocent people were dying Victi little children like she’d once been She wished so her mother "An artery to use for bait? Yes, that would be acceptable to el-turned-vae is power and all that"

"Agreed" He waited until she faced him "Shortly after Man was created, two hundred seraphiress These angels were known as the Watchers They were a scholarly caste and they were given strict orders not to interfere with the natural progression of Man’s evolution"

"They were only supposed to ‘watch’ I get it"

"They didn’t obey"

She san to fraternize with s they shouldn’t know"

"Such as?"

"The creation of weapons, warfare, science" He waved one hand in a"

"A warrior caste known as the Sentinels was created to enforce the laws the Watchers were breaking"

"And you lead these Sentinels?"

"Yes"

"So you’re the one responsible for turning the fallen angels into vaer and horror

"They are responsible for what they are They made the choices that led to their fall" He studied her with those fathomless eyes "Yes, I administered the punishs and souls are connected, and the loss of their souls led to their blood drinking But I’m not accountable for their mistakes, any more than a police officer is responsible for the criy would be a penal systeerous after incarceration than they were before it" Lindsay ruffled her curls in frustration "Why do they have to drink blood? You don’t, and they were once angels like you"

"They’re still physiologically seraphis didn’t est the food you eat We look similar to mortals on the outside, but we are not the sah physical chened that way"