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He knew all that, but he was here now That hat mattered What had she said before? Just thishis erator, measured it out in a quarter cup He hurried, because when he’dof her body, her struggles against the reice as bad Another indication that Anas still in there, the wo restrained

When he returned, he steeled hi the cell, he moved quickly toward her He made himself tune out the animal sounds, far too re his arripped her hair to still the movement of her head and forced the cup to her lips The smell snapped her attention to it ierated blood, as Daegan had said, but in this state she would take it She gulped it down, the excess running sloppily over her chin, but this tih to catch it for her Her gaze was fastened on the artery in his throat, because he knew she could hear the puh it She snapped at hio of her hair

"Your wrist," she de his head, he turned on his heel and left the cell, forced hian had been right He would give anything not to be here He was sure she felt the sa area, he found a basin and washcloth beneath the sink As he let the water heat and filled up the basin in the sink, he noted the eye s, nor was draped over the vanity chair

Lifting it to his nose, he s to the cell, feeling a bit cals were still firrowls, like a frightened lioness Occasionally, she’d break off into harsh whispering to herself, her red gaze clocking around as if expecting a threat froaze had latched onto him as he reappeared He didn’t meet her eyes, and kept his ht the chair up close Close enough that his knees were pressed inside her spread thighs when he sat back down Shemurmur

The positioning of the h on her thighs

Gently, he began to clean off the blood and voitated again when he worked on the shirt He decided to pour the ater over it to rinse out the blood She was still sweating, so he kneould feel good

"You have no right to touchhim with bloodied saliva from her split lip "I am an untouchable Chosen to lead other untouchables" Her diatribe descended into gibberish, interspersed with foul combinations of words he wasn’t even sure Anwyn, for all her vast sexual experience, knew Terrible, crude things a ht say A sibilant lisp exactly like Barnabus’s voice caers This wasnot normal

She sla the stone crack and seeing her eyes glaze over as if she’d given herself a concussion But when he tried to slide his fingers to the back of her skull, to feel for daain She laughed, those red eyes glinting

"You fear "

Heteeth, but on the toned length of her legs The nip of her waist beneath the shirt The column of her throat and the delicate holes in her ears where she’d been wearing diamonds earlierWould those close up? he wondered Some older scars did, when a vampire turned How about the place on her back where the stained glass had cut her?

As he cleaned her sliainst the ht the unwise desire to put hisbeneath the skin He studied her toenails again, each cuticle a translucent white and each nail embellished with one precise silver stroke over the polish

The prostitute who’dtoes, she’d had the tiny emblem of a teddy bear For her kid He didn’t know if she did it to remember him when she had her feet locked around some john’s shoulders, or to aether Probably both

A lot of shit happened to everyone in the world The only thing that kept anyone going was knowing soive a shit what happened to theave a shit what happened to Anwyn, and hell, he’d already ad there, cleaning her as best as he could, until she was back down to hissing and spitting