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“But allowing hierous?”

“When others have been feral, they’ve had a need to do to my Aunt Millie In this state, Lucan will require any wo sonal to him that he’s not under attack and enable hiy if he does”

Caden sed “And you’ll just let him”

She stared back at Caden over her shoulder “My body is a s another eases hi, ould I not help hiut This wonderful wo herself He adored her, yet was scared for her, all at once

“Does Bram knohat you’re about?”

She shook her head “He’d only be a hindrance”

Caden shook his head Foolish, brave, a woman “What if Lucan attacks you?”

She smiled sadly “You’re here”

He bit back a screae made him feel like a coward Lucan needed this to stay alive, and the witch illing to risk her life and body to heal hih there was no risk to hi his brother siphon sexual energy fro here at all The response shamed him

“Back way to the farthest corner of the roo what Lucan would do, except that it wouldn’t be good Ridiculously grateful for that sainst it, watching his brother and waiting

Sabelle nodded, then dropped her robe She wasn’t wearing a stitch

His jaw dropped The witch wasn’t just a pretty face; she had curves stacked everywhere, long legs, a lush backside, a long, narrow torso with a flat belly Her breaststhe stuff of wet dreae to touch her He couldn’t when he had so s for Sydney

Kicking the robe away, Sabelle edged onto the bed and lay beside Lucan

Ied for her, his eyes wide and frenetic and sightless He sniffed at her, growled, and rolled her body beneath his, flattening her against theher with his taut body

“Sabelle?” Caden called and darted for her

“I’ed to do as instructed—barely

“Female,” Lucan purred as he buried his face in her neck His mouth devoured her skin as he panted, and his chest ruan to roam her body He used the slack in his chains to squeeze a breast, then cupped between her legs “Anka?”

When Lucan panted and bit at her neck, she shuddered Her eyes slid shut Caden flinched and resisted the urge to rescue her He gripped the edges of the portal behind hi his brother sexually do If Caden had been against htmare sealed the deal

Sabelle wrapped her ared, “That’s it More”

Lucan didn’t respond; he could not hear So she coers through his hair She glided one pal, Lucan unleashed more of his inner beast, and his hands roamed her pale flesh He tried to clai her neck Finally, Lucan gave up, and dropped hishis instinct to protect Sabelle, as Lucan pinned her down for his pleasure

“Anka,” he breathed against Sabelle’s skin, fisted his hand in her wet hair “My Anka!”

Lucan pressed against Sabelle inti his hips at her Caden recoiled, yet he couldn’t turn away for Sabelle’s safety For Lucan’s sake, he wanted this to work, but watching his brother take from Sabelle utterly disturbed him

“Stop,” Caden demanded “You don’t have to do this” Sabelle opened her eyes and turned her head to meet his stare “I do, but if you can’t stay, I understand”

The offer was te, but“Who will be your safety net?”

“He’s chained Go on It’s all right”

“I won’t leave you to face this alone We neither of us knohat he’s capable of”

Her expression was like a shrug as she stripped away Lucan’s briefs

With an anier body all but sing her up Chains rattling, he gripped her hips in his hands and lunged for her ed hied toward the bed again, but a glance froripping the door frame, turned numb The witch was determined, and his brother needed her But, oh Godthis was terrible, painful He could only iine what Sabelle endured

When Lucan could not kiss her, he grewher ether

Panic crossed her face

Frustration and fear gnawed at Caden’s gut “Will kissing him turn him more feral?”

Sabelle raised her head over Lucan’s shoulder, dodging hiain “If he tastes me, he’ll know I’m not Anka”

Of course Every wizard knew his mate instinctively by taste Their kiss, their tears, their cream—whatever he tasted, it would carry the flavor of his mate Lucan would sense it, or rather its absence, in Sabelle

She distracted hi her hips in invitation Lucan hesitated As he loosed a feral howl, he invaded her body

Wincing, she cried out

That was it Caden could not stand about and do nothing He ripped away from the door

“Stay back!” Sabelle shouted “If he s him and try to kill me”