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Between heaving breaths, he bellowed to the ceiling as he filled her, over and over, plunging into his own hot spend

Then ca draw A succubus's extra pull So many years distant; yet so familiar He quaked violently, powerless as the last of his seroan, he collapsed atop her shivering body She was panting, pinned on his length, squir her Yet in the end, she'd found no release

Not like he had That last indescribable pull

The beast receded reluctantly, Will driving it back It was nor and kissing her with abandon under the light of the full moon I'm no' normal, dark and twisted He felt sick

He'd fed a succubus-was hardening inside her even now No, not again Two tih for this night

Without a word, he withdrew fro deep to cage his beast completely Her sweet succubus scent filled his senses until he was drowning in it

Dragging me down

He ran for the toilet to be sick

Chapter Thirty-Six

That didn't just happen

Chloe hadn't knohat to expect for her first tiet railed from behind by a olf-or that her first lover would dash to the bathroom to vomit directly after

She lay stunned on the bed, trying to process everything that had just occurred All she knew for certain was that he was sickened by sex with her, and that she would never repeat this ever again

At first, she'd thought she could enjoy having hias

He'd known it, she'd known it And then she'd seen hih it, as if sex with her was a grueling last lap to be coed out with the beast, letting it finish sousted to do himself

Fear had assailed her But when the beast had turned her over and taken her, it hadn't been as bad as she'd thought it would be

She'd even chanced a peek back at MacRieve's wolven face It hadn't been nearly as terrifying as last time And she'd realized why: the one time she'd seen the shadow of the beast before, it had been wavering over MacRieve's azed at her with possession, with yearning-as if she'd just become its entire world It had ached for her, just as MacRieve had said

Chloe had responded, reveling in its ferocity, because she'd known that she had provoked that intensity She'd relished the way its claws had gripped her hips, knowing that it was frantic for her

As frantic as she'd soon grown

Once she'd relaxed again, the pleasure had returned, just harder,into the pillow because the beast of her fears had been fucking her straight toward the ined Just when she'd been on the verge of release, she'd felt wave after wave of its se inside her She hadn't coainst her every ache-no pain anywhere, not her ankle or her bruised face Her energy had been renewed She'd truly felt immortal Then it had ended Then MacRieve had returned

He'd just finished volass of water at the sink

She'd always considered herself thick-skinned Rub soht? But with this

There was no upside

Will lurched fro not to notice as Chloe stared blankly at the wall, sheet clutched to her throat

-Allay, comfort-

How could he co?

He descended the stairs, heading straight to the liquor cabinet As he cracked open another bottle and took a generous slug, he comprehended the hopelessness of his situation She would always be a succubus; he would always hate her kind

So her for things she'd had no part in, bla her whenever she needed to feed

My will is no'to the shower It sounded like she was frantically scrubbing herself Not a good sign And he thoughthe thought he heard her crying, the sound echoing in the shower stall

Just as Ruelle hadhis first time, so Will had made Chloe

She'd never spilled a tear in all those soccer clips, had never cried frohtear As Munro had warned

How horrifying for her to be taken by the beast While Will had experienced unequaled pleasure Another remarkable milestone for an ancient immortal

Yet I'er

Another throat-burning chug He sank down in one of the chairs before the waning fire, staring at the embers He didn't want to hate her; she didn't deserve it

So what to bloody do? Mayhap he needed to talk to someone Naturally, his first impulse was to call his twin-but Munro would just rail over Will's treatment of his deirfiur So Will collected his sat-phone fro no expectation that she'd answer

She picked up al about the ad?"

"Ad?"

"For the gently used Bentley for sale It has zero"It's ood to hear from you! Scotland in, and Carrow We're doing rescue work"

He swigged, not even surprised she knew his location "Aye, collecting Order orphans Malkoround, Will heard what sounded like a -deht be a van rocking on its shocks

Nix said, "I's, ankle-biters, and a couple of centaur foals, just to name a few"

"I need your help, soothsayer You and I-we've definitely rebroken that bone, aye?" he said, his bitterness undisguised "Yet it's still no' right I've bollixed this up with my mate"

"I know," she said sadly

"I doona want to treat her this way" He began to pace "How do I keepher just for what she is?"

"Why don't you work on her hatred of you?" Nix asked "Win her and perhaps you can be won over"

"How?"

"Lykae can be so s tricksters who cajole what they want Woo her, wolf"

"I doona believe she can be won by ht on a swell of despair

"You haven't exactly made it easy for her"

The back of his neck heated So Nix had seen what he'd done to Chloe?

"Yes, I see all, wolf And by all-"

"You h, then you ken why she will no' want entle"

"You need to talk to her, confide in her Tell her what happened to you"

"Never" For Will-a Lykae male fro worse than beingmolested by Ruelle for four years would be to admit it to his mate

How could he even introduce the topic? We need to talk about why I subconsciously despise you When I careedy pull harkened back to a time when my seed was taken by one of your ilk