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And though the sentinel didn’t say it, Max knew the i in her head, soe
Having changed into a loose T-shirt to sleep in, Sophia returned fro by the bed He looked strong and beautifuland remote, the stunner he held loosely by his side a stark reminder of who he hat he did
"Stay with ht, the heat of his body still imprinted on her skin "I think I can handle the sensations now" The invitation took all the courage she had She bit her lip to quiet the plea that wanted to escape She didn’t want him to pity her--but oh, how she needed him
No words but he placed the stunner on the bedside table and ripped off his T-shirt She clenched her hands on the bottoed down the coet in As he went to follow, his jeans still on, she had a thought "Max, what if I’m compromised in some way? You shouldn’t leave a weapon that accessible to ra the comforter over them "And no offense, Sophie, sweetheart, but you’d make a very bad assassin"
"I could blow out your mind," she re to what I’ve picked up over the years, a natural shield o forthe fact that you’re a little bit of nothing--knock you out cold" The words made him scowl
"Good" Relieved--in spite of the fact that she could see he hated the idea of hurting her--she let hi around her waist That much sensation, that much contact, still burned a hot, wild fla used to it With Max it wasn’t an intrusion but a choice on her part Turning, she placed her hands flat on his chest
Heat A sudden fever Almost pain
"But no voices in hts, no yesterdays but ently, and she knew he understood "Don’t push it," he said "Small bites, remember?"
She didn’t listen, lost in the storm of sensation, the world a kaleidoscope around her "We never finished"
Max’s hand stopped its soothing strokes over her back "You’re not exactly in any shape--"
Tilting her head, she kissed the line of his neck, taking the taste of his "Sophie" Then his hand was on her cheek and she was being turned onto her back and he was kissing the breath out of her The kaleidoscope spun and spun until it exploded
As the pieces rained around her, she found herself gripping Max’s shoulders in an attempt to hold on His muscles shifted beneath her pal to control the a in the wild heat of him, the delicious pressure of his lips, the way his thumb pressed down on her jaw to open her o Her entire body melted for him, every inch of her open in invitation
It was the most luscious of tee of her when she’d been disoriented and lost only one pure black again--but he could distinguish a difference, though he’d have been hard-pressed to describe it He just knew this tier "Do all Psy eyes do that?" An intiled with hers, his hand in her hair
Her fingers stroked over his shoulders with quick, hungryso very delighted with hiher end of the spectruiven the nature of my mind" Calm words, but her eyes, her body, told a different story
He could al tension in her, every tendon held taut "I knoho you are," he said, holding her gaze "I’ to be scared away because of your ‘i the ht iridescent
"We fit, you and I," he whispered looking into that haunting gaze "Two broken piecesa whole" It wasn’t the most romantic of state you"
She tugged hi him until his body huasps He broke the kiss "Is this , he rolled off to sit on the edge of the bed, looking back at her over his shoulder "Why the hell did you--"
"I wasn’t lying, Max" Curling onto her side, she watched him with an intense interest that told him he was the absolute and utter focus of her world Some men would’ve been scared away Max kneatched her the sa breath "I don’t kno to describe these sensations The closest word is pain, but I know that’s not right I don’t crave pain And yet I crave what happens when you touch me"
Max twisted so he could face her, one hand braced pal "It sounds like your nerves are raw--overloaded"
"Maybe" Clear words, a steel will "But I don’t want to slon"
He had a will as strong "NoI will not hurt you"
Her shoulders slue, he pushed "Why did soht?"