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Malko life

On his way down the ht this fenized what she was to him - the woman he&039;d never expected for hi and his loins stirring to h the bone forest But as he&039;d closed in on her, he&039;d also scented the dehtered the breath, for the first tiiven hireen eyes Her skin was flawless, as pale as a vas She was some kind of immortal, but he didn&039;t knohat

And her scent She sined a woman should Not like those hardened, hollow-eyed demonesses who&039;d reeked of the males that&039;d used them

Now the reasons Malkoer affected hi to him, and she was his

What use had he for a feer mattered I clai hi hiive her

Yet noas battle- to the last of his control De his lust on this fine creature warred with the vas planted into the creah

Shehis

Thought fled He roared and leapt for her

Just before he was upon her, pain erupted He gazed down at his side in disbelief She was jerking a spear up between them, slipped under his chainmail and between his ribs Her eyes fierce, she buried it deeper

Tricked Rage seethed Losing control She needed to flee froritted between clenched teeth Run

This being hadn&039;t even noticed the spear, hadn&039;t registered the pain until she&039;d shoved it farther into his side

He&039;d just continued staring at her with a look of consu it was palpable,into his palazed fro into hers, he again grated, "Cotha"

"I-I don&039;t know De her?

He threw back his head and bellowed, "Cotha!"

Eyes wide, she dropped the spear and scra away, she fled deeper into the forest She could absolutely believe this male would put her head on a pike

Within lance over her shoulder, gasping at what she saw He was changing Through the swirling dust, she spied his upper fangs shooting longer, narrower

A vas A vampiric deed up an incline, winding around the lava-filled boulders, fear th would be unnatural He&039;d break her like aher eyes, she shoved her forearm over her face -

Suddenly, he was on the path ahead of her With a cry, she whirled and dashed for a side trail After one turn, she realized the path ended in a narrow ledge that tapered out over a fiery ravine

Dead end

When he prowled closer, she backed onto the cru a drop that could kill her My powers, gods, I need ed toward her, seeh injured, he remained hard

This wasn&039;t how she&039;d planned herchas into the black eyes of a des

And the unmistakable need to breed with her

As he loo pain with every unconscious flex of his corded ed below her Carrow peered down at the s from the depths Would she actually jump to escape him?

No one would ever knohere she&039;d met her end

When he shoved his hand into his pants to adjust himself, the swollen head of his shaft jutted past the waist Her lips parted in astonish, the tip beading He absently ran his palm over the uncovered crown, then froze Slowly, he turned his hand over to see his seed glistening there

When he dragged his gaze froain, he looked evenwith intent And in that second, everything became clear to her

He would be deterht

Ah, great Hekate, she was his asms, he couldn&039;t produce semen until he&039;d found his female He couldn&039;t release it until the first time he claimed her With this first hint of seed, he would believe she was his demon mate

As well as his vampire Bride An unmatched vampire male didn&039;t draw breaths and had no heartbeat or sexual ability until he&039;d encountered his female and become blooded

No wonder he&039;d appeared bewildered by his breaths He&039;d pounded his fist over his chest, over his heart

Because she&039;d made it beat

Had the Order known this would happen? That she&039;d be his Bride and his mate? How could they have? It seemed impossible So why did she feel double-crossed?

"Alton, ara," he coht he was co his female to come - or to heel?

"Not until you calm yourself!"

"Alton!"

She shook her head,over

With a roar, he lunged to one side to punch a boulder in frustration It cracked wide like an egg

His strength He could break her bones with a touch

She&039;d heard tales of va their females They were unstoppable And she knew that the de drive so strong it made the that drive, they couldn&039;t resist it

He was definitely in the ht now

Would she juh his postcoital high h power to escape him, the demon would tear her with his size Would she even be conscious to draw the power froled her leg froave way under her foot

New Orleans, Louisiana

Val Hall, the Valkyrie stronghold

"Nix, I&039;et the info you pro around the roo"

Nix the Ever-Knowing, better known as Nucking Futs Nix, cried, "Let&039;s start fro soon, you know" She twirled in circles, her long black braids flying out, reseh on runway power, rather than a three-thousand-year-old Valkyrie oracle Her baby-doll T-shirt said Carpe Nocteathered with thes intently - they had a stake in Mariketa&039;s "uest to find Carroell At least one of their own had been abducted mere miles away from where Carrow had been taken

So many stolen Myriad creatures fro other witches, one as young as seven They were rumored to have been captured by the henchmen of an unknown entity, and none of them could be found The House of Witches, the fey trackers, the powerful Sorceri, none of the for patience, Mari said, "You have to have seen so"

Nix frowned over her shoulder "Have to have I?" Spinning, spinning

"Nix, stop it!"

The soothsayer slowed to a standstill, casting Mari a hurt look Then she flounced to an easy chair

Extracting info from the soothsayer proved difficult at times At all times And Mari had heard that Nix hadn&039;t even been lucid for the last teeks But Mari had to try - she was beside herself orry about her best friend

To search for Carrow, Mari had used all the power she could draithout risking a mystical backlash Then she&039;d called on all thirty-seven covens of the Wiccae to scry Even with so , no one could find a trace of Carrow All they could say was that she was in grave danger