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"We’re ready for you," Sabin called

Kane’s grin disappeared "We’ll be down in fifteen ed Josephina into the bathroom, stripped her, stripped himself and turned on the water for a quick shower Soapy hands wandered, and once again Josephina found herself panting fro as they’d done, her body was already primed

"We only have a few minutes," she said

"That’s all I need"

"Really?" But, every time before had taken hours "Are you sure I’ll enjoy this? I mean, I want you, but I also want to reach the end"

"I consider it a personal mission to ensure that you do" He donned a condoainst the wall He was inside her a second later, and ohoh! The way he roan after groan froe of desperation to every thrust of his tongue

"I could drain the life out of you in seconds," she rasped "I could kill you"

He hened arousal "Tell me more"

"You’d never knohat happened One moment you would be lucid, the next you would be dead"

He became a wild hts derailed as he hah andyes, yes, yes

"Kane!" she shouted, her body breaking apart, refor, every inch of her branded by the man in her arms

He bit the cord between her neck and shoulder as he shuddered against her, the pressure so her into another level of rapture For a minutean eternityblack dots flashed behind her eyes and silence cloaked her ears She was lost to the pleasure

When she ca at her "Told you," he said, all masculine satisfaction

The tub shattered beneath their feet He slipped and caught his were still wrapped around Kane’s waist, her feet protected from the shards But not his Blood welled from several incisions

"This will pass," she said

"I know" Scowling now, Kane carried her out of the debris He set her on her feet, and they dressed as swiftly as possible and rushed to the ballroom to meet with his friends

The women formed a line in the center, their men behind theave her a swift kiss "Your fa"

And she had to do whatever was necessary to defeat theain think to use her

"Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked the woth and power of everyone but Scarlet, as de mother, and Danika, whose visions of the future could distract her

Each female squared her shoulders, raised her chin

"Very well" Tre, Josephina reached toward Gwen She stopped just before contact "Last chance to back out When I’m done, you’ll be weak It could last a few hours or a feeeks"

"Weak sch dads can cause"

"Her father is Galen, keeper of Hope and Jealousy," Kane explained, stepping up beside her to offer h he doesn’t carry the kind of hope you ht think It’s false hope that Galen offers Real hope is essentialht "The kind that you gave iven her

She ot," Gwen added as Sabin ca and faster than light"

Sabin placed his hands on his wife’s shoulders "Just don’t hurt my favorite toy, and we’ll be fine"

Gwen preened as she tapped her thuainst her chest "Today I’m his toy" Next, she hitched that thumb in Sabin’s direction "Tomorrow he’s mine"

Toy Yes The perfect word to describe such a delicate-looking feth she would be able to take without putting the girl into a coers around Gwen’s wrist "And thank you for this I don’t kno I’ll ever be able to repay you"

"I’"