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"For how long?" she challenged

"As long as we can beg, borrow, and steal Don’t deny me I need you I need this--your touch, your pleasure, your love I can’t think without you, can’t feel anything And I need to do both of those things to get through the shit I’ht now If you want to save me, you have to be with me"

"What about the other Sentinels?"

"What about them? There’s not a one of them out there who doesn’t know I just nailed you to od" Embarrassment flushed her skin

"I wanted them to hear," he said vehemently "I could have taken you miles away, but you and meit needs to be out in the open I’m not ashamed of how I feel about you I’ you It is what it is"

"They already hatedall those accusing cerulean eyes "Now--"

"They heard you say no They can’t hold this against you"

Lindsay cupped his face in her hands "I’m not worth all this I’m not I’m just a crazy mortal who has no self-preservation instincts"

"And I’el who’d die for you See? We’re a perfect ht her wrists, his face revealing so much emotion she wept at the beauty of it "Stay withwhat it’ll do to you?"

"Just say it"

They were too stubborn, both of theretted it She couldn’t say yes, and he wouldn’t hear no "I don’t belong anywhere else, you know I’ve never fit in with ‘normal’ people I don’t fit in with your people But I fit with you I know it I feel it None of that h, because it’s forbidden I’ll be das I’d rather die than see you turned into a soulless, bloodsucking vaainst hers "Ani ohev otach, Lindsay"

Oh godNow that she knehat thatherthe seaue "Show ripped the back of the love seat

"Takehis still hard cock inside her Sprawled beneath her in all his gorgeousan erotic invitation, he looked every inch the sinful, decadent, unabashedly wicked fallen angel "I’m yours"

Lindsay shook her head "No"

Adrian’s features lit with a glorious smile He twisted swiftly and she found herself beneath him, filled with him

"I knohat ithis ar her so co in exquisite torture, she ed, "Itfor you, Adrian’ "

His tongue traced leisurely along his lower lip before he caught the firauging her reaction as he gave a practiced roll of his hips The thick crown of his penis rubbed against all the deliciously tender erogenous zones inside her--a deliberate sensual assault

She whimpered as he withdrely, then thrust hoe off and was now settling in for what she kneould be a long, unhurried ride Her fingernails dug into his tapered hips "Adrian"

He bent his head and groaned into herfor you, too, Lindsay"

CHAPTER 18

"It has to be her"

Syre pushed aside the slender fe his chest and slid fro hope that so often led to disappointment "You’re certain?"

"I wasn’t at first," Torque said "Even afterwith her, I couldn’t say absolutely She’s different this time"

"In ay?"

"In a lot of ways For one, I’ot to her There were a couple tiht know me but couldn’t quite place me"

"That’s not proof"

"No, but two hours after I els’ Point Adrian returned shortly afterward"

Restless with exciteet to her?"

"She has to coo to work" There was a smile in his son’s voice "And she hired hts of the week It won’t be long before the perfect opportunity presents itself"

"Sounds too good to be true"

"It’s the best opportunity we’ve ever had"

Syre rubbed at the ache in his chest "I should come to you"

"No" Torque’s voice was sharp, his tone iot all the backup I need Your coive Adrian the opportunity to take you out You need to stay in Raceport and out of sight as "

"I won’t hide"

"But you love Shadoe, and you want to see her again I can’t iine it’ll be more than a couple weeks before that happens"

Syre looked out theat the ht he’d seen tooparents didn’t get opportunities to be reunited with the children that were lost to therace for siring Torque and Shadoe Nephalis Yet it was that specialized hybridization that had spared her soul when he’d begun the Change to save her life All of the nephalim vae because they were as strong as an angel’s, without the vulnerability of wings

"Take as long as you need, son," he said quietly, stepping farther away fro it rolled to the side with a disgruntled sigh "It doesto recover the other I need both of you"

"Dad" Torque laughed softly "I didn’t reach this age by ements for Shadoe’s return Before you know it, we’ll all be together again"

"Micah says Vash had a rag or clothsome bit of material with my blood on it"