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"This," she said, stroking her hand down to graze one flat ree to disagree" His voice was husky, his skin hot under her touch

He was reacting to her, she realized in wonder Continuing to pet hi to every hitch of his breath, wanting to do what pleased hied abdomen went rock hard as her nails scraped over his nipples, she repeated the caress

A single word that turned the air blue Pulling out the hand he had between her legs, he grabbed both her wrists and pinned them above her head "Now," he murmured, eyes locked with her ohere e?" His free hand slid back down, over the twisting ache in her navel, under the edge of her panties, and -

"That’s not fair," she soasp

A kiss that stole her breath "Who said anything about playing fair?" He rubbed lightly at her cleft,her entire body clench "Will you let me in, Katya?"

She shook her head "No, you should be punished for teasing me" But her body was already silken elcome for him, her flesh lusciously damp

"Please?" Another kiss, another intier he stroked gently inside her The sensation was the s were on overload But instead of wanting less, she wanted more More and more Here, in his arht-years away How could night?

"That’s it," he ainst her throat as he kissed his way back up to her mouth "Move on me"

She couldn’t stop the strangely fluid movements of her body - part of her knehat to do, how to do it "More," she ordered, nipping at his ear

"You’re too tight"

"More"

Groaning, he slid a second finger inside her and pu ecstasy Her arousal peaked, hovered there, waiting, waitingHis thu exploded

She felt the back of her head connect all as she threw it back, heard Dev’s bitten-off curse, sensed her asm tore her apart None of it mattered For the first tih her body that she was delirious with it

Dev watched Katya’s face fill with pleasure and wanted only to undo the zipper on his jeans and take her But no way in hell was he doing that with Tag and Tiara down the hall, not to s quiet this long A little more and his control would be shot to smithereens

But no matter that they hadn’t consuht and there’d be no going back froht for her, for the woman who’d woken froht to live No one would take that right froh, he carried her to the bed Heavy-lidded eyes opened to give him an inherently sensual look as he laid her down "What about you?" Fingers trailing over his chest

He caught her hand "Later" Pressing a kiss to her lips, he thought he gli shadow, but when he looked up, her eyes were closed as she gave in to the kiss "I have to go" He’d have given anything to spend the night by her side, but he needed to sit down and go over the iitators were beco had to be done - but how could he embrace a "solution" that would rip his people apart froers on his cheek "You have so ht in your eyes, on your shoulders I wish I could share it with you"

The honest offerhimself on one elbow so he could look down into her face, he echoed her hold "That you h"

He wondered what it would be like to have someone of his own, someone he could trust absolutely The irony was, the only woman he could see in that role was the one woman he couldn’t ever trust "Get so her hair off her forehead "We’ll talk tomorrow"

She opened her ht, Dev"

He wondered if she’d been about to ask hi the better of it The sense of loss lay heavy on his shoulders as he got off the bed and picked up his T-shirt Then, unable to simply leave, he moved back to the bed to press a kiss on the exposed curve of her neck "Have good drea, she held Dev’s final comment close to her heart There’d been such care in those words, such tenderness It had made her hesitate, but this was her only option now that she’d given up on getting him to enter her mind He would be furious, but he’d also be safe - she couldn’t hurt hiain

What if her actions weren’t her own? What if she was o wherever it was her heart and soul insisted she go? What if the compulsion was only another clever trap?

"No" She knew these thoughts were her own She knew But how? Frowning in concentration as she laced up her sneakers, she felt a headache co on But this time she didn’t retreatand the answer appeared froher forehead "There’s no room for subtlety"

"Why?" she asked, too numb to be afraid anymore

She didn’t expect an ansas surprised when he spoke again "Subtlety requires mind control You’re not worth that ers activate?"

"You’ll exist Though, of course, notblackness in herand vicious

Sing a cry of agony, Katya bent over, fist pressed to her stomach Oh, God, it had hurt when he’d done that It had hurt so very badly She’d been little more than the most primitive of creatures by then, but she remembered the final torture, the final obliteration of her psyche

"But I didn’t die, you bastard," she whispered, rising to a standing position though nausea continued to churn in her sto it with a tissue, she stared at the door "And when you locked me in this prison, you also freed h the PsyNet No one could spy on her No one could stop her