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While he brushed his lips against hers, he reached with his ainst her inner barriers

She recoiled with a gasp

Jared s while he kissed and caressed her

Always before, he’d given pleasure in order to escape the pain of punish it He explored her body, fascinated by the ht touch He tasted her, rubbed hiainst her so that her scent would be on his skin and his on hers He laughed silently when her fingers dove into his hair to hold his mouth to her breast He enjoyed the way her body both pulled away fros

And all the while he slowly seduced her body, he stroked her inner barriers until she was so used to his presence she didn’t react at all

Then he began the journey into the abyss Down, down, dohile his rasping hands made him burn

Down, down, down until he slipped under her inner barriers and saw the shining green web of herself

Jared flowed upward Carefully, delicately, he brushed a strand of her inner web

Her body tensed Thrashed

His rolled, half-covering her to keep her still

It’s all right, Lia He brushed the strand again

Yes, she said, but her body shuddered, and she didn’t sound at all convinced

Following Talon’s instructions, Jared carefully flowed his Red strength between the strands of her web, then formed a shield above her That, Talon had explained, hy it was better for the male to wear the darker Jewel If the witch panicked for some reason and tried to descend into the abyss, she wouldn’t be able to get past the shield and inadvertently rip through her own inner web

When he was done, he kissed her--and jerked back in surprise

"What" Lia said, her eyes ith shock

Jared caressed her breast, and felt the caress

She pulled his head down and kissed hi

This was the seduction and the danger, Jared realized as he kissed her again When a man was inside a woled up in the physical sensations of being both the giver and receiver that he wouldn’t be able to distinguish his body fro her down Felt the bed under her back Felt hi until he ainst her neck

Breathing hard, Lia gripped his shoulders "Do it"

"Lia"

"Do it"

He thrust

And took the pain as well as the pleasure

For atheain, to feel that pleasure

He was terrified of the blood that covered hih to break the skin and cried out in pain

Sheathed inside her, the impaled and the impaler, Jared forced his body to remain still while they rode out the storm

And realized that he could have stepped away froh not to be swept away

That’show a Jeweled male broke a witch Hein the eye of the storave pain instead of pleasure The witch beca the pain upon herself Unbalanced by the conflict, she would try to flee, but the pain would follow, driving her to her own destruction

The knowledge made him shake

"Jared" Lia wrapped her arled to find the self-control that would let hiet swept away by the physical sensations, not to lose control coently "Please"

Even if he could have distanced himself from her body, he couldn’t bear to pull away froth--body, mind, and heart--and surrendered both of the against his desk, Krelis sloisted the Sapphire-Jeweled ring on his right hand

Darker than the Green Jewel, lighter than the Red

But skill and training counted for soth coht? What difference did it make if the bastard wore the Red? He didn’t really kno to use it

Except the Shalador Warlordhad held off the ether to capture the Green-Jeweled bitch-Queen Had done a lot more than hold them off

Had his pet been partially responsible for that? Krelis wondered as the Sapphire Jewel appeared and disappeared with each turn of the ring Had he used his own training to support and guide the Red? It could have ended with that ambushShould have ended with it

His pet had been a serious miscalculation He hadn’t expected loyalty No Hayllian expectedreal loyalty froone races But a ood sense tostay bought

Well, that was one other thing he’d take care of when he got to that privy hole called Ranon’s Wood

"Come in," Krelis snapped in response to a knock on his office door

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