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Want you inside mewith me Eve’s breathless voice cooad hiretted more than the first ti at the wo he’d betrayed Eve with her Izzie had started out by goading hile- ht it sied as the darkness overtook him He’d merely been the vessel used to carry out the act and at some point, she realized that Surprise had hit her first, then fear, followed by anger In the end, the pleasure overwhelmed the rest, but Alec doubted she would seek hiain He prayed to God that he would be able to resist her if she did
I have to gain control of whatever the ascension awakened inand bent to pick her up She whimpered and rolled away from him, exhausted by the deel and the needs of a multitude of voices in his head For all intents and purposes, she’d been fucked by a dozen insatiable appetites Her clothes were in tatters, her eye ently on the black leather sofa that rested against one wall, then moved to the bathroom and the shower that waited there He’d practically lived in this office after his pro with hiht of her with Abel--or any another iven in to the need to see her He didn’t have to be in love with her to want to keep her Affection, ades had far less
Want you
He was so exhausted that even Eve’s voice couldn’t rouse hinaled an eventual recharge He had to get out of the tower and away from the other Marks whowater beat down upon his head and the odor of sweat and sex dissipated in the steaainst the cool tile and stared at the water swirling down the drain Just like his life--and his relationship with Eve
The things he’d said to herNow that he could think clearly, he knew the full extent of what he had done His intentions had been right, but the approach was hideously wrong
He thought of Izzie’s exhaustion and his own starateful the thing in him hadn’t used Eve that way
Cleaned and dressed in new clothes, Alec moved back into the main part of his office and collected Izzie He shifted to her apartment and tucked her into bed
He loathed hi for participant and he’d pleasured her well, but too her with her than he had ever been with another female in his life
He was exhausted when he shifted back to the hallway outside of Hank’s office So tired that knocking on the door was a chore, but an invitation was the only way to breach the occultist’s inner sanctum As it had earlier in the day when he’d coible assistance and Alec entered the shadowy space
"Took you long enough," Hank rasped, appearing out of the shadows in the fa into a voluptuous and lovely red-haired feuise was really a glamour at all, but later decided it was just a quirk A ritual Hank perforic
"Sorry?’ The si the full depth of Alec’s remorse
Hank came to a stop just a few inches away "You look like shit?’
He felt like it, too "What have you got for me?"
"Some advice?’ Hank crossed her arms beneath an ample bosom "End whatever sort of relationship you have with Eve You are weakening each other at a tiest"
"I’ve already broken it off with her"
"Ah" Hank studied him with narrowed eyes "You seeel"
Alec almost snapped back--his temper was still sharp--but the last couple of hours had afforded hiht the iel?"
"I know I’ve always believed that archangels were born, not estured for Alec to follow As they ht, ot the sense that the room extended infinitely beyond the shadohich wasn’t possible according to the limitations of mortal structures But he’d learned to just accept that Hank was a deins, and to appreciate the fact that the Infernal was on his side and not on Sale" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>