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She batted her eyelashes "What the fuck hat?" Okay, so the innocent damsel routine didn’t co F-boet points for effort

"Interfering with my business with the other de er Neanderthal than Anna’s s are done how they are done"

She rolled her eyes "Well, I’ed to evolve What’s your excuse?" She changed tactics and pressed herself against hiht just snap her neck, and that would do her no good She needed to remind him why he liked her in an adult forripped her wrist and placed her hand over his erection "What do you think?"

She set why you haven’t Maybe you have sparkly romance dreams? If you do, you can tell ot tired of taunting hi hiot She’d be out of here before the next full ame would be over

The Cycler would still have enough power to start gathering an army to move forith his plan, but this time she wouldn’t help hirip forever She had no intention of leaving Heaven until things were put right Her gods were in another dimension She’d been faithful to them She’d petition them to let her into the proper world for her next incarnation Then she’d be off Jack’s radar forever Truly free

When Cain released her, she didn’t waste the opportunity to unbutton his jeans and slide her hand inside

He growled "I won’t lose control I’ you out of et bored with you, or until you beg me to keep you--and mean it"

"I think that’s bullshit I think you like me You don’t want to kill et bored by now?"

"Go to the caves"

It was as good as an admission from him

"We never do it in your tent Are you ashaet interrupted?"

He’d allowed her to continue stroking him, but he hadn’t fallen coot interrupted What about you? Does your little friend know you’re screwing the demon who tried to kill her and would have succeeded if she hadn’t given her soul to my brother?"

Tam pulled away "Anna wouldn’t understand this I know I shouldn’t act like she’s a child She’s got all her memories from her other lives, but it’s not the same They’re isolated episodes of experience It’s different being in one body for as long as you and I have"

He laughed "Are you saying I complete you?"

She rolled her eyes upward "Hardly I’ she doesn’t understand what it’s like for me She thinks she does, but she doesn’t"

The de shortly"

She sighed and turned to leave

"And to answer your other question"--his words stopped her--"the reason for the caves is that tents are coainst a wall"

Her back was to hie, she wasn’t about to turn around or pause, but she knew he had to sense the wave of desire his words had caused Or maybe he’d done it with demon thrall Her shields had weakened in the tiuard twenty-four-seven, and if she wanted him to break the cycle, shields were pointless Shields were to protect her, and she didn’t want to be protected froo He’d let her stew in the caves waiting for hiht, he should be bored with her by now He didn’t want to dig too deeply into his motivations But hehis Killing her was the prudent choice It hat she wanted, and it would make it easier to kill The Cycler if he didn’t have her power absorbed into him, too

But a wo to happen now If she didn’t want to die, she’d be easier to kill, but he still resented giving her the opportunity to escape the immortal bed she’don the ground She probably couldn’t see hiht vision, he could see her

"Why are you in the dark? We have torches"

"I have energy balls, not fire, and all my tools are locked in a pod You do the math"

"Surely there is some chant you could use How hard can it be for a witch of your caliber to produce fire?" he taunted

"I don’t waste energy on things like that"

Cain lit the torches and sat beside her on the big rock He began to stroke her back and pushed aside one of her straps to kiss her shoulder She did look lovely in that dress, as if she could rule beside hiht

A suspicion eased into his ripped her throat, his voice low and deadly "If you’ve done any ainst led for air, and he loosened his grip a fraction to allow her to speak

"If you kill er body, I will seal you in a jar so fucking fast your head will spin Don’t threaten ht way so I can leave this forsaken place"

He couldn’t say what kind of ood as ad unforeseen effects on hi he liked her, then he’d have to kill her just to shut her up If he rong about her usingher that weapon--not when he’d already said how things would go between them

"I could lock you in one of these pods You’re immortal, sort of, you’d survive it" He wasn’t sure why he added that What did he care what she could survive? "I could leave you in there until the Jack probleo of her and stood, her nearness starting to unhinge him