Page 61 (1/2)
His passion, his emotions, the heated sexuality he poured over her like hot oil sliding down curved, quivering flesh, was as noticeably absent as if the va
Sometimes, while she worked at her co her, but when she looked up, he was reading or watching the television, scribbling in his report ledgers If he was in the weapons roo, he worked himself into a ferocious sweat, which was alhting an invisible opponent A decision he didn’t want to ht made her uneasy
She could have asked at any time, but she wasn’t sure she was up to whatever it was yet, and figured he’d tell her in ti down blood that incitedcrushed in the jaws of a hideous round her in the back of its fetid throat, those gre Ironically, while the sire’s blood was supposed to be staving offto be an alht about jauns in her ear, not out of any real suicidal bent, but because she so desperately wanted to obliterate the noise, even if it turned her brainpan into soup
In addition to that, she was having to run a major business from her computer and phone, no hands-on work or direct contact The nus James and the others really couldn’t handle, that relied on her knowledge, were stacking up She hadn’t seen the outside, breathed fresh air, in five days Daegan had said she could perhaps start having escorted excursions in the next day or so, because though the seizures were no less violent or frequent, they were starting to have a ood hours at least between each one One day, she actually slept six hours without interruption
As a fledgling, she should be sleeping froan had explained that, while sunlight was far s, they tended to be like infants, sleeping in fits and starts at first The transition made it even an’s mind was never open to her, but she could sense he was settling down in his roo alert until he was sure that Gideon was back
Fortunately, that was now She sensed hih the corridors of Atlantis, and sy stride, the fuck-off-don’t-talk-to-me look he leveled at her staff as he made his way to the lower levels The band of tension around her chest loosened
While she’d had other concerns in the past few days, Gideon aood as his word He was devoted to her well-being, no longer even flinching when she slid onto his lap or curled around hih he’d asked her not to use the phero hinificance of providing sustenance for a cherished h his mind, and had chosen to savor it, rather than discoe that she’d heard it
Like , he was also more than ready to meet her carnal needs She’d restrained herself, no pun intended, for the past few days since that volatile episode with her and Daegan She’d enjoyed riding astride Gideon, le- her pleasure But the craving to take hiain, such that she knew she wouldn’t be able to stave it offthat curtain between theirout of her head, a kind of peripheral hts that filtered into his brain However, there were times she couldn’t help herself She found herself hip deep as he wanted, craved froain In the formless, shadoorld of his subconscious, she also saw hints of things he wanted froe to herself as well
She lifted her head, anticipating Her servant was here In fact, heknocked on the door Waited
What are you doing? Come in
She heard the keypad tones; then he slid in the door, bearing a large duffel bag Laying it doith a clank, he grunted "I wanted to be sure that things were okay in here Didn’t want to open the door, if"
"If I’d gone all Tasain?" She arched a brow "You can tell that by reading my mind But that wasn’t it You didn’t think you elco every ti suddenly aard and out of place, as if they were strangers Which, in many senses, she knew they were "This is your hoan’s I don’t make assuiving hi as you choose to be part of this, you live here, Gideon Case in point" She gestured with her pen "You brought your belongings"
"I figured I would be staying pretty close for a while, so the rest of my stuff would be safer here than where I’d stashed thes In his mind, she saw this was all of them Curious, she beckoned him closer and pushed away from her desk "Shohat’s in it Other than weapons You and Daegan can drool over those later"
He slanted her a glance, but came closer, went to a squat The way he looked at her, that lingering expression, quickly hidden in the duck of his head, but not in the disguising of his thoughts, told her he’d co that wasn’t food His hands were curled in the duffel bag, holding tight to it as if to keep his hands off her She held that curtain between theht be working somewhat, because the denial of thatbuilt his anticipation higher