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Foreboding spread with icy tendrils across Adrian’s skin, but he affected boredoive a fuck"
"It is And she’s dying"
Adrian’s pulse skipped with life for the first tiht Shadoe here Only Lindsay--a woman Syre had no real connection to But still, Adrian had to be sure "Shadoe?"
Torque shook his head "She’s gone And Lindsay won’t feed Aside from a chunk she tore out of Vash, she hasn’t drunk a drop Her heartbeat has slowed to the point where I thought she was already dead by the ti the door off the car before Torque could say olden skin now pale as alabaster He shielded her fro the easy target he presented with his back to two va
"Syre returns her to you in honor of Shadoe," Torque said quietly "She carried Shadoe’s soul We owe her so in, Adrian shrouded her with the blanket tangled around her liainst hiate
"You’re welco into the house
He took her to his bedroo the drapes shut to block out the sun Lindsay was as cold as refrigerated marble, and just as lifeless He shed their clothes with a thought and crawled in beside her, pulling her close to ih hiainst his
"Lindsay," he whispered, burying his lips in her crown She s inhale Tears wet his face and her hair, the quiet of his roo unchecked froh to exa ard curls away fro the tiniest tip of fang His heart squeezed in his chest "Neshaer into herthe pad with the point of a razor-sharp canine He slid the bleeding digit deep and stroked it across her tongue "Feed," he coaxed "Feed or you will die, and kill me with you"
He waited endless moments When she didn’t ertip, pushing both bleeding fingers into the cool recesses of her mouth
Her lips quivered
"Yes, neshama sheli Drink Come back to me"
A low, thready moan escaped her Her throat worked on a tiny s
"Drink of ed "Take what you need"
Another soft flex of her throat Her eyelids fluttered, the skin so translucent he could see the fine network of blue veins coursing through theaze was unfocused, her breathing still far too shallow
He began to withdraw his fingers, but her tonguethem to the roof of her mouth She was too weak to hold hiri his head, Adrian traced his bleeding fingers over the thick artery in his neck Her ry babe He caught the back of her head in his hand and directed her
Her tongue licked back and forth over his pulsing vein, plus pierced his skin, his cock hardened instantly Herlust and desire radiating outward froaining strength with every gulping s Her groan vibrated against hian to rub against hi to the sexual pleasure varound her sex against his thigh, leaving a slick trail of moisture behind
He reached for her hips, further aroused by i the years ahead, endless days with the woman he loved forever by his side "Put s slipped free of his skin "Until you coue licked across the twin punctures, closing the between them, she wrapped her warmed hands around his cock and positioned him at her entrance She sheathed him in a deft, hard thrust of her hips that odAdrian" She nuzzled her teainst his, her breath hot as it blew across his ear "I’ve missed you so much"
Then she froze
When she didn’t move and barely breathed, Adrian lifted her torso away from his to search her face "Lindsay? What is it?"
She covered herwith shock and horror "Oh! I’m sorry, Adrian I--"
He took her face in his hands "For what?"
As she shook her head, her eyes overfloith pink-tinged tears Her arms covered her breasts, a display of shaht, wet sex slid upward along his cock when she ed I’m not--"
Adrian rolled and pinned her beneath him "I want you more now than I ever have"
"You can’t"
"Oh yes, I can I do" He captured her arhs wider He withdrew fro them both Then he haasped, her eyes wide and beautiful A va behind them Eyes that saw him as clearly in the darkness of his shrouded rooain "The feel of you feeding from my neck has me so damn hot for you Feel how thick I am? How hard you’ve htened around his hips, clasping hiratitude at her acceptance Hunger curled like heated iron around his spine, and he groaned The feel of her was so subli life to him just as his blood had done for her "What you are doesn’t matter to ers dug into the backs of his hands, bringing a sharp bite of pain as newly formed claws pierced his flesh That turned hi her until she writhed He was home, his soul completed by the proximity of hers--his Lindsay, so brave and selfless
Enraptured by the feel of her beneath hies He watched the pleasure weight her eyelids and slacken her lushwith the raging desire that built with every deep thrust