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Itkeeps telling me" His hand closed over the back of her nape "Now sleep"

She did Exactly one hour later, she woke to the touch ofin the uidly this time, and Judd let her cuddle and pet him as much as she wanted

His ertips, his skin holding the flavor of salt and man It made her deeply happy to be so intimately connected to him "I want to do this every day for the rest of old in the darkness "Yes"

But he had to leave her when the Tk regenerated "Brenna - "

"Shh" She shook her head, aching to cross the divide between the" It was obvious he didn’t want to go Equally obvious to her heightened knowledge of him was the pain - the dissonance - he refused to betray "To, baby"

He finally left after several more minutes of persuasion on her part Only then did she lie back against the pillow and let the tears come Was this all they’d ever have - stolen moments when Judd was stripped of a crucial part of his psyche? It seeht, but exhaustion took her under after a few minutes, and when she woke, hope reawakened with her

"I made love to Judd Lauren," she whispered, ao, that would have see, she pushed off the bed, showered, and grabbed a bite to eat Afterward, knowing it wouldn’t do any good for Judd to be trapped in the confines of an apart, she headed toward one of the specialized tech chambers to do some work

Judd found her halfway to her destination "Don’t you need to be at DarkRiver?"

No words of romance, but his eyes held such dark fire that even as her body thrilled to life, she worried "Judd, you have to pull back or the dissonance will punish you"

"Never thought I’d hear you say that" The intensity of his gaze didn’t change

Shaking her head at his stubbornness, she answered his question "I’ve done ive h the sensual resonance still vibrating through Judd’s whole body, re very important "Why did you leave DarkRiver yesterday? Who called?"

Brenna paled "It was an ambush That bastard could’ve killed Drew! It was only because Riley gave chase and scared hi"

He wanted to hold her, but couldn’t chance bodily contact, not with the memory of their intimacy so fresh His hand fisted "Do you know the identity of the caller?"

"The e was passed on by DarkRiver’s h her hair "It caeneral line We should have known so because the e said that there had been a Psy attack on the pups and several were dead"

"Riley didn’t call back to confir procedure in most tactical and ryand the shooter counted on that"

Eht "Considering the ie, why didn’t the cats know?" Clay, as a sentinel, would certainly have been infore was in the code Pack soldiers use," she revealed "It said that this ti involved God, ere stupid!"

"Not necessarily If it was in code, then Riley was correct to assuitimate source Even if he had called back, the shooter may have been prepared to intercept" Sht have made a fatal mistake "How many people know that code?"

"I have no idea"