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"I served him for five years, eleven months and three days He’d enchanted a set of metal cuffs, a collar He kept theic had no impact on him He was smart Worked the enchantment so I couldn’t influence any of his other"

"There’s a scar on your thigh A knife wound"

"Yes" It did dangerous things to a wo sex It meant he’d noticed her, not just what he wanted "I didn’t care about living I just wanted his were in the room, liked the way they stared at me Sometiy He got off on that, too I tried to cut his fe position, but I missed When he threw ed the spell on the cuffs and collar after that, so I couldn’t cause harm to him at all, no matter what it did to me"

"What happened to hi her, but he was right behind her, his hand braced on the fraht there There was a dangerous stillness to Mikhael’s expression She thought it ht be the look his prey saw in their last , it raised a fierceness in her own breast

"I killed hiarden She didn’t necessarily want to think about it anyh her head at least once a day More, when she was having a bad day She wasn’t sure if that was because the nightmares ca why even her worst day here was heaven compared to that ti and hard He occasionally believed he’d won a modicum of loyalty from me Devotion" Her lips lifted in a avehu into a store as a wealthy client and paying with enerate it or simply take what he wanted"

She shook her head "It sounds absurd, doesn’t it? I took lives for Elceus, innocent lives If I didn’t, he would starve et, a paid contract A huet out hen he was coh airport security"

She chuckled, a bitter sound this time "The cuffs and collar were heavy metal He took them off to avoid notice When I’d done what he wanted done, I seduced Elceus, drank all his energy until he was just an empty skin"

It had happened at their rendezvous, the hotel room where she was supposed to report that the job had been done She’d asked for the collar and cuffs back, had told hied to hilowed, and she could see exactly what itaffection of a succubus, a weapon anted to be in his hands He’d caressed the enchanted objects, sitting there on the hotel desk, told her to get on her knees

Beg pretty for them, my love Use your mouth

She’d done that, but before he could put they had coiled around hiood at what she did, after all

"The best part wasn’t when he was completely at my mercy It was theto kill him That the sexual pleasure I’d forced upon hi toward hi I’ve ever tasted"

For the next six ested Fortunately, sexual energy was absorbed through the skin and bloodstream, not just the intestinal tract, and it had nourished her human side, somewhat

The haunted, hollow-eyed look blended ith the urban teen runaway scene, and the clientele seeking her age group weren’t that picky, as long as she looked young and was cheap She’d turned tricks to get her sustenance, and eventually found what she needed to rebuild herself froround up

"So that’s it," she said "The whole story Or at least as much as I can stomach and hold on to that brunch Matilda cooked Ready to play cards for real?"

Now he did touch her She’d changed into day clothes after brunch, her top a cashe to her waist The wide neckline, which showed the graceful line of collarbones, had slipped to the right, revealing her bra strap His touch settled on it, stroking that silken strip It wasn’t even his whole hand, just the four fingertips, the thuesture of comfort It was a reminder that he was here That he had possession of her now She felt such an overwhelht, however te

"That’s why you didn’t want to wear the collar"

"It took me a while before I could even stand the touch of a necklace or bracelets" A collar was out of the question… except when those dark cravings rose in her, and she desired theht Master A fantasy An illusion

"So, obviously…" she said, and stopped Taking a breath, she waited until she was sure her voice would be steady, smooth and sultry as it should be "Motives aren’t usually all that co in them I knew they would seize a chance to live a different life I won’t claim I see that in Isaac But I don’t know the point of no return for a soul Maybe you do, but I don’t want that knowledge I want to give hi of hiiven that knowledge," he said "I’m not sure even Lucifer or the Goddess Herself knows the depth of the soul It’s probably the ic any of us possess"