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Lazy, sated, she didn’t protest as he carried her from the workshop to the bed and stroked her onto her hands and knees She arched into his touch, enjoying the feel of hi his hands down her back, over her buttocks and down the insides of her thighs Spreading her for him When he pushed down between her shoulder blades, she re her arms at the elbows, she lowered her head to the sheets and tilted up her bottoe, but she refused to give up Instead, every tiht to the hn murmured, one hand on her buttock "I think I knohat you’re doing I can feel you holding on to me deep inside"

That he was pleased wasn’t even a question - she heard it in the indulgent sensuality of his tone Not really considering the consequences of success, she sent an erotic request down the bond simply to see if she could

His hand squeezed "Baby, I can’t see an ie, but I think you just read ed her with his h heat She screaas alhn’s hands on her hips The man was relentless But still she didn’t cascade, her

"Hold on" A dark whisper, a breath of air across exquisitely sensitive flesh

She whied flesh of her clitoris A wave of black crashed into her The pleasure was so acute, so piercingly sensual that she sobbed as she shattered, clutching at the bond with desperation armored in sheer need

That hen he took her

Hot, hard, do that ca She felt branded on a level that went beyond sex and heat, claiht fro that required no words to be understood

"Oh, yeah, baby I’ainst her neck as he bent to kiss her pulse before rising up, tightening his grip on her hips, and riding her to ecstasy

Even then, she didn’t cascade, didn’t go maddidn’t break

Only hours later, Faith stood beside Vaughn’s tense form as they waited in the courtyard of the private university where she’d placed the target She couldn’t see the others through the lasses, but knew they were there, silent shadows to ensure justice was done

Anticipation siy she’d ever felt, Vaughn’s wildnesswith her own on a level beyond telepathy She was becouar with each contact and that was fine with her Claere so her withstand the i distance

Looking at the gently leafy caroups, Faith felt her resolve harden into granite If they failed, an innocent woman would lose her life, this campus would be forever tainted by a darkness no ahost would find no peace

So they would not fail

"We’ll get hihn’s voice was husky in her ear

"How do you always knohat’s on " They’d spent so out that while Vaughn couldn’t hear her words, he could read the e accuracy

"There are other ways of knowing and I’ you to all of theuar wasn’t in charge right now, but it was very, very close to the surface Because she hn, I’m not weak I can protect myself" She wouldn’t die on him as his sister had, but neither would she hurt hi openly to an event that had scarred him so violently However, she could try to address those scars in an oblique way "I didn’t cascade yesterday and once I would’ve believed that i day by day" Perhaps being Psy hadn’t taught her about ey That skill could be put to use for good as well as evil, couldn’t it? "Vaughn?" she said, when he didn’t respond

"Yeah?"

"Not everything about the Psy is bad, is it?" It caused a tearing pain inside of her to think that everyone she’d ever known, that her father, her sister, had been nothing good

"Hell, no You’re not"

"I’ about individuals The Psy as a race have done so people on this planet" His response was a surprise "Take your gift Without it, civilization ht’ve been destroyed a thousand times over"

"That was before What about now?"

"They create more jobs than their own race can ever fulfill, es"

"But all at low-level positions"