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Where he could handle Anwyn experiencing such possessive feelings, because they seemed wrapped up in her personality as a Mistress, not spawned solely by va similar assumptions And that was how it suddenly felt
He pulled back, drawing her away froh he could have unbalanced her, but she was already cultivating those catlike sensibilities She straightened her ar his elevated heartbeat He didn’t want to be away froan so close In her confused gaze, he saw she thought he’d changed his mind The vampire instinct to take wrestled visibly with her desire to respect his wishes, while fighting the roaring need to finish what she’d started He understood it well enough For an unsettling ly He also saw so him she was afraid of the consequences of this act, what it would mean about herself, what it would do to him
"I don’t want you here" He turned his attention to Daegan "I can’t do this with you hovering over us
She understands how the rest works Let her finish it alone"
"No" Daegan aze "If bloodlust takes over, she could injure you enough to kill you Until the second reater than usual"
"Thenbreathing roo, he leaned forward, bringing his face within a few inches of Gideon’s "Can’t keep your dick hard within Gideon stilled into one red pinpoint of anger It burned in the center of his chest like a cigarette, goading dark, fearsos in him "I think that bloodsucker’s need you have to s you have for anyone or anything else You want this done? You want her to have o piss on some trees in the kitchen until this is done" The world froze Menace emanated from the vampire, the transition from cold dispassion to near-death experience so swift Gideon almost reached for the knife sheathed at his back Self-preservation and the fact Anas on his lap stopped him, because he knew if he’d done it, it would have been over The hellfire flickering in Daegan’s eyes told Gideon he was a breath away fro over his heart, her breath drawing in Her thighs tightened on the outsides of his hips as if she could protect him, but he wouldn’t let her do that, no ht be at this point This was between him and one seriously pissed-off vampire Which was prettyto end He just had a bizarre, fleeting regret at not knohat that secondhi so close to anyone
A blink, and Daegan wasn’t there He was across the coffee table, standing in front of the wing-backed chair positioned there With elegant and precise movements, he lowered hi knee and teain, his eyes still fixed with deadly intent on Gideon’s face
"This is as far as I go, vae your o or excessively doured he’d rip Gideon’s head off when Anas done with himent, Gideon turned his attention back to Anwyn
Unfortunately, he had a new proble cloaked in just her hair, but wished she wasn’t still marked with blood from her last seizure However, it was because her flesh felt cold that she picked up the blanket and wrapped it around her body, staring between the," she said, even more sure of it now than she had been before She could already feel the impact of that first mark inside of her
It was if there were a silken cord between her and Gideon She could have closed her eyes and known exactly where he was in the room, without the use of any other senses
When he’d pulled back from her, in that first instance she’d been so bereft, deprived of so to have, she hadn’t even been able to rally herself to interfere in whatever was happening between Gideon and Daegan Just as well It was never a good idea to get into a testosterone h the undercurrents of it had disturbed her greatly Gideon was doing this to help her, to keep her safe Not because he truly wanted to be a human servant
He’d been clear about that, but it was the undercurrent that bothered her Even during their first session, she’d sensed his nebulous yet overwhel desire to serve a specific wo to be so easy for him to walk away fro part of a vampire world She kneas expected of vaan’s stories Gideon’s soul couldn’t survive that
Whether Gideon thought it applied only in the Queen’s Chamber or not, she was his Mistress She had a responsibility to protect him She’d had submissives who couldn’t be trusted to use their safe words when they were physically or eot so deep into their needs and yearnings they couldn’t make that call anyilant during a session Gideon didn’t even know the concept of a safe word He’d follow his gut to his death
While she knew her own feelings were secondary to protecting him, she also knew there was that component as well What if she did led their souls and hearts together, such that she couldn’t let hio, or force him to do it, when it was tiure out soetting that stubborn look "I already said I’d do it"
"Yes You’re honorable You’re trying to do the right thing But I don’t want your sense of honor Not for this What if I become just like those you’ve killed, Gideon? If I’m second-marked, and you decide you have to hunt and kill me, it will be near i yourto come to that"
"You don’t know that"