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Elijah jerked backward "Don’t put that on me, Micah"

"She trusts you--" The redhead erupted into violent, hacking coughing that left flecks of blood on both his lips and the pristine whiteness of his sheets

"Rachel will be fine I proasped "Adrian’s woe"

Elijah pulled free of Micah’s grip, furious and sick that his best friend would du deathbed "Don’t do this," he hissed "Don’t ask me this She risked her life for aze an echo of its former fierceness "Adrian will bend for her Promise me Step up Make it happen You can free the to his feet, Elijah stumbled out of the roo up his bloodied hand Then he deflated into the bed, his chest rattling with every labored breath

Elijah cleared the threshold He looked at the lycans waiting outside the room There wereat hi expectancy

"You all put him up to this," he accused "You told him where I’ve been these last couple of weeks"

Esther stepped forward "Elijah--"

"You selfish fucking bastards"

He looked at his hand and the already healing puncturesfree of his clothes, he vaulted forward in a powerful lunge that took hih the door to the outside and ran

Lindsay was still gasping, trying to regain the breath Adrian had knocked from her, when he landed on the other side of the house She heard the slide of a glass door at her back; then she was being carried through it and into a roo bookshelves

Leaning back in his embrace, she looked at his face His features were stark, the skin stretched taut with fierce determination Another door closed behind her, this one an interior door, and she was pushed up against it, pinned by Adrian’s hot, hard body The drapes began their auto the room into silence and darkness

"Adrian"

His ht her wrists in his hands and pulled theue thrust into her e that turned her on instantly

The warm, vibrant scent of his skin filled her nostrils, wilder today than she’d rerip and found her wrists tied to a coat hook on the back of the door As his hands slid down her arrasped frantically with her fingers Feeling lace, she realized he’d done that undressing thing with his thoughts and secured her to the hook with her own panties A tentative squiro"

"You’re not leaving idness behind it was as tangible as the thong around her wrists

Lindsay tugged again The lace tore and ier bound her to the door When Adrian’s hands pushed up beneath her T-shirt and cupped her bare breasts, she realized it was her bra A shiver ainst her as the day her mother had been killed "Cut me loose, Adrian"

His ed her nipples into hard tight points "No"

Without volition, she arched into his hands, her breasts growing heavy and tender "You’re upset We should t-talk We need to talk"

"Not now" He gripped her hips,her aware that she was now coh pushed between her own, she realized he was naked, too

Her breathing was loud in the otherwise quiet room Her heart raced with a potent mixture of fear and forbidden desire If it had been anyone else restraining her, she would’ve lost it But it was Adrian, and the feel of his hands against her skin kept the terror she ht have felt at bay

"You should think about this" She panted, atte touch "You don’t want this You don’t hat’s going to happen to you if you do this"

His cock glided between the slick lips of her sex Lindsay froze He was hot and hard, delectably long and thick

"Does this feel," he purred, "as if I don’t want this?"

She bucked when his lips wrapped around her nipple The coat hook creaked in protest but held fast Adrian didn’t have the hollow particleboard doors that would have given her a chance to escape The solid wood his architect had used was ht and abuse

He drew on her breast with long, deep pulls of his wicked ood intentions started toit would deter him

"I know You’re on fire with it" He parted the lips of her sex and stroked a fingertip through the silken liquid of her desire "You’re always so fearless, but you trust h the rooly aware that the hallwaywith a dozen or els who disliked and distrusted her for this very reason--she reduced their leader to a mere man, with all the weaknesses and lusts and desire for comfort that came with that ain A hot, wet, lush kiss that spoke of a man who’d crossed his limits at some point in the days they’d been apart "I won’t"