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Beneath all that, Anas fighting a battle for her an, could co bench, hit the bars with his fists and cursed profusely If she was going to be taken fro to use some of the time to vent
Concrete dust plu hi He snatched up an had left, just in case, and ran into the cell
She was thrashing and struggling, hera fountain of blood over her full botto out the chain, he looped it around her ar around the lilad there was some space between the wall and the beam He bound the arm from wrist to armpit before she could put more pressure behind the loosened bolt He stayed clear of the thrashing head except when he got close to her shoulder Then she nailed hian had wanted to bind her head, since the ars and torso were alhts about that when her fangs sank into his forear frorip, his blood sending her into a renewed seizure He jerked out of range as her eyes rolled back in her head She let out a sound that he’d never iined could pass human lips
Gideon used another titanium carbonari clip to secure the chain and then did the other ar to take any chances Now she wouldn’t be able to leave the cross at all When she surfaced fro that out of hisa dish towel around his bleeding aran?They needed the sire’s blood This stuff wasn’t doing the trick anymore
Not only did she resist it ot some into her, she jerked like an ani from her now, the wide, prickly fear in her eyes, beyond coherence, told hi it
"It’s all right, baby We’re here We’re here Hang in there You can do this" He dashed away shalad she wouldn’t reh itNever give yourself a choice, because if you gave yourself a choiceWell, she’d said it herself You’d regret it all your life Best to react and pretend there wereno choices
He suspected there waschoices Soht haunt her even more than what happened in the alley Another o on forever, but in hindsight, he suspected it was little longer than any of the previous ones, justse the blood container on the floor and his head in his hands, giving hiuely, he realized he hadn’t eaten or drunk anything While nothing appealed to hi down, if he didn’t want to pass out on her And hell, she wasn’t going to be finishing the food she had in her refrigerator Jesus, even his hair hurt
The ave a rueful snort at the thought, but noticed that she was registering it again as well, her weary headas if she was hu It made it sound like a lullaby
In between those tranquil notes, though, she s he couldn’t understand and probably didn’t want to As he cleaned her and the floor once ht that had put a drain in the stone floor, though he was sure he didn’t want to think about all the uses for that in a BDSM dungeon He tucked the last clean towel around her, wondering about his options after she destroyed that one There had to be a washer or dryer down here, right? He’d just find one, or he’d cut Daegan’s sheets into quarters He was a va from the rafters
When he snorted at that bit of va on a chair in front of her again and put a hand on her leg, right below the henal he’d fallen into using when she surfaced, letting her knoas there still Particularly since this tied for the worse, her restraints considerably increased
She focused on hiaze re not to notice or think of anything else But then she winced
"My tongue hurts"
"Yeah, you bit it pretty bad that tis, but I didn’t want to upset you more"
He saw a dark well of panic open in her eyes before she sla aently "I wouldn’t do it without your okay You know that It’s already looking better I think your refrigerated blood helped soue like that AnwynI had to add the chains You were pulling the one side loose" She nodded after a moment, a more subdued response than he expected Then he took a closer look
Though he’d never seen anyone who looked ht now, in addition to that intent gaze that could bore holes into hi a silent panic attack Her phobia about the restraints was getting worse, not better, and he’d had to increase theent request for music now made more sense