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"I don’t want you playing with hiht If I forbid you"

"I would disobey"

"Perhaps "

"There’s no discipline you have that isn’t to " She made sure her eyes warmed as she looked up at hie was between theether Vampires were powerful predators, so do with their own kind Her instincts as a Domme were natural, and had been honed by experience, but he had centuries of blood behind his

In the still, sacred privacy of her own o that if she was a cat, then he was a lion, and though he ressive tendencies were similar She wouldn’t fully surrender herself without complete trust

He’d always been brutally honest with her, and that meant she trusted him more than she’d ever trusted anyone Yet he’d made it clear that with the third mark, he would have a limitless ability to scour to the bottom of her mind, know her fears and sorrows, her insecurities andin herself

At one time, early on in their five-year relationship, he’d pursued his desire to le-u when he was deter sojust how to undermine her female defenses He knew so much about who and what she was already

She’d withstood the assault until the stor fronized howwere difficult, pretending she was still Anhen he’d apparently torn her soul out of his body and taken it with hi moments, she’d told herself if he ever caive hie he offered, and soer saw the bars

But when at last he returned, he’d told her he would not ask her again, nor would he perree to it Perversely, she’d felt a sense of loss, that he’d turned his back on the bond that his species viewed as the closest possible link with another living being Ironic, considering that link was possible only with a species they considered inferior

His fingers stilled against her Pulling out of her thoughts, she caught her breath as Gideon knelt at the prayer bench The le with hiid with tension, from the breadth of his shoulders in his thin T-shirt, down to the braced thighs and taut ass in the worn jeans

"He keeps a toe blade in those boots" Daegan’s attention sharpened on the screen

"I’ll be fine, Daegan He won’t hurt me I know it"

Gideon’s hair fell farther forward across his brow in his penitent position It only enhanced the fierce resistance in the brilliant blue eyes that flashed through the unruly strands When she heard his words--

I’m here, damn you Come back to me--an insolent deainst Daegan’s paler His hands had returned to her breasts, and now they were drifting, stroking, plucking so that her body was shifting restlessly, a rhythm to his erotic ," he murmured

"It’s part of what he needs Do you have timefor me to need you?" Gideon had touched her own healed wounds with his rabid suffering It h deep in her heart, she knew she could trust Daegan with far more of herself It was herself she didn’t trust

He’d stilled at her soft request, but now his lips increased their pressure against her throat, beco,cherYou knoould deny you nothing"