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Hisher fingers into solid masculine shoulders Never, she knew, had she experienced anything even remotely similar He was so hot, she wanted to crawl into hiertips, and she wanted more, wanted to be naked, to have hiht a heavy, i in a breath when he released her, she stared into his eyes, wondering if he could read the clawing depths of her need

"You back?" His voice was harsh, his eyes glittering fever bright

Her breasts brushed against his chest with every breath, the tips so tight with need, it was als out" He continued to hold her in an embrace she knew she’d never be able to break "Wouldn’t wake up no matter how much I shook you"

"So you kissed hly practical decision Even a broken Psy would react to so "Thank you" It would’ve been prudent to pull back, but she’d never felt more alive, more real "I thinkthat was h word "Hell, I’ain"

His lashes caed back her head and brushed his lips over hers, a single hot caress When she tried to get closer, he refused to let her "Dev"

"Don’t rush" And then he touched hison instinct, she sipped at the fullness of his lower lip, felt the rough warainst the palms she’d pressed flat on his chest For a second, she was afraid he’d stop But he deepened the kiss with sloeet strokes thatinto the firm muscle under her hands as her body filled with a liquid kind of heat Hips twisting in a hunger she barely understood, she tried to pull hiainst her lips

"A little more" Every hot breath, every stroke, every lick, it anchored her in the ers tightened in her hair instead, his jaw setting in a way that was already beco?"

Soth of his hold, htain"

So so razor sharp in its fury, it should’ve made her run But all she wanted to do was strip him to the skin, feel his body hard and unashamedly ers on her jaw "I’e"

Her eyes dipped to the straining bulge of his arousal "You want to"

"What ant" - a voice as unbending as stone - "isn’t always good for us"

Hearing the finality in that, she sed the need that urged her to keep pushing "Thank you for coht now?"

The truth came out before she could censor herself "No" Without the erotic shield of Dev’s kiss, fear was already crawling up her legs, creeping into her lungs

He didn’t say a word, sied her over on the bed She shifted with alacrity, feeling the mattress dip to his side as he lay down beside her seated for only a pair of sweatpants, his chest a lithelyinto her pal the trail that -

"Co up her head, she felt her cheeks burn

"I don’t bite"

She wasn’t so certain This man, he confused her As hard as he was beautiful, and yet capable of a gentleness that left her floundering Now, he just watched her, let her make up her own mind There was only one choice, only one place she wanted to be

The erotically charged taste of him still in her mouth, she scooted over and laid her head down on his ar her into his body And the contact - hot, real, Dev - shoved the fear aside When he pulled a sheet over theainst his chest, her fingers curling into the crisp hairs on his chest The last thing she are of was his heartbeat

Dev brushed Katya’s hair off her cheek and studied her sleeping face, his eyes lingering on the lush sweetness of her er and innocence, it was one hell of a potent co his efforts to keep it under control Gritting his teeth, he sought out all the metal in the house

The cool kiss of iron and steel brushed his , not with Katya’s slight forainst him - but he’d use the calm while he had it, see if he could find answers to some of his questions in the ShadowNet He’d heard stories of the PsyNet, that it was an endless field of black littered witha