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The green eyes studied hi interest "You’re upset"

"Dying tends to sour my mood"

"You were only dead a few minutes and now you have what you’ve always desired," she pointed out with perfect logic "You’re a full-blooded Were"

"Yeah, I got theto the sensations that crashed through hiates had been jerked open to release a torrent of raer It would be days, if not weeks before he could becoe cravings that gripped him

"Then why aren’t you pleased?" she softly derimaced at her puzzleain the gifts of a Were What creature wouldn’t want to be stronger and faster and downright superior?

And, of course, there was always the whole i

But when he’d received the visions that had promised he was destined to become a pureblood, he hadn’t counted on the sacrifice

"Because it …"

"What?"

He squeezed his hands into tight balls of frustration "I thoughtcur blood into pure Were," he bit out "Not being genetically altered because a whacked-out deh me in an attempt to escape into another dimension"

She tilted her head to the side, soret that you won’t be able to share your wondrous transformation with others?"

He snorted at the na&iuured out yet that he was a selfish bastard who’d never done a thing in his life that didn’t benefit him in one way or another

"I’m not Gandhi"

"Who?"

He heaved a pained sigh "Never mind" "I still don’t understand why you’re upset "I wanted to fulfill ic"

"Why?"

"A gift given by es to extract a payine what the cosmic debt for irets" She frowned at his sharp laugh "Did I say so that it’s too late for regrets for the past decade," he muttered

"Ah" She turned to wander toward the nearby , studying the untamed nature that surrounded them "And yet you still have them"

"I …" His mouth dropped in shock as Cassandra absently pulled the sweatshirt over her head and dropped it on the floor The jeans swiftly followed, leaving her standing in nothingpanties "Holy shit, what are you doing?"

She turned to ly surprised by his strangled question

"My clothes smell bad" She wrinkled her nose "And I need a bath"

Hot, savage lust sla him to his knees

The kind of lust that could drive a man to madness

Which was the only reason he was spinning away fro the counter with enough force to crack the marble top

He’d made one bad decision after another over the past few decades

It was ti with his actual brain

"Yeah, well, as eous feest you head upstairs," he growled

He heard her sniff the air, easily scenting his arousal "You want ainst his jeans with enough force to cut off his blood supply

With one fluidthe floor to press the provoking woainst the wall He distantly re his face along the curve of her neck as he absorbed her unique scent

"Correction, I fucking ache for you," he rasped, his body on fire with need "But right noe’re both in a crazy place When I take you ason my mind but how much I want to please you"

Caine wasn’t sure what he’d expected, but it certainly wasn’t to discover hi over hi smile

"You’ll become my lover when I say and not a minute sooner," she assured him

Caine rolled over just in tiht little ass sending his blood pressure through the roof

Shit

Who the hell was Cassandra?

An isolated, cave-dwelling prophet who’d been irrevocably daed by a demented demon lord?

Or a ruthlessly seductive fe ease?

Rolling to his feet, Caine rubbed the lu skull Karuest bedroo the room decorated in shades of yellow, Caine opened the walnut armoire and pulled out a pair of jeans and plain T-shirt