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Vishous caht back to the quarantine rooe on through, and as he went down the hall, the et out of his way

Sy as hell

The day had been a wasteland He hadn&039;t found anything in the Chronicles that approached what had been done to Butch Nothing in the Oral Histories either And worse, he was sensing things in the future, parts of people&039;s destinies realigning, but he could see nothing of what his instincts told hi theater with the curtain down: Every once in a while he would see the velvet move as a body brushed the far side or he would hear indistinct voices or the lighting would shift under the tasseled he blanks

He strode past Havers&039;s lab and went into the housekeeping closet As he stepped through the concealed door, he found the anteroo on their sentry duties alone

V stopped dead

On the glowing screen closest to hi on the bed on top of Butch The cop&039;s arms were around her, his bare knees split wide to accoainst each other in waves V couldn&039;t see their faces, but it was obvious their ues wrapped

V rubbed his jaw, dimly aware that under his weapons and his leathers, his skin had grown hot God¡­ da up Marissa&039;s spine now, going under her profusion of blond hair, finding, caressing the back of her neck

The guy was totally sexed up, but he was so gentle with her So tender

V thought of the sex he&039;d had the night Butch had been taken Nothing gentle about that Which had been the point for both parties involved

Butch shifted and rolled Marissa over,a move to mount her As he did, the hospital johnny broke open, the ties ripping free and revealing his strong back and powerful lower body The tattoo at the base of his spine flexed as he pushed his hips through her skirts, trying to find hoainst her, her long, elegant hands snaked around and bit into his bare ass

As she scored him with her nails, Butch&039;s head lifted, no doubt to let out a moan

Jesus, V could just hear the sound¡­ Yeah¡­ he could hear it And froh him Shit What exactly in this scenario did he want?

Butch&039;s head dropped back down into Marissa&039;s neck, and his hips started to surge and retract, then surge again His spine undulated and his heavy shoulders shrugged and released as he found a rhythm that made V blink really quick And then not at all

Marissa arched up, her chining lifting, herChrist, what a picture she was under her led around Butch&039;s thick bicep In her passion, in her vibrant peach gown, she was a sunrise, a dawn, a pro in what he was lucky enough to touch

The anteroo the monitor with his body

Havers put Butch&039;s medical chart down on a shelf and reached for a hazain, have you?"

"Yeah¡­" V&039;s voice cracked and he cleared his throat "But now&039;s not a good ti?"

Not in the slightest "Yeah So you and I are going to leave hiht now"

The doctor&039;s brows shot up behind his horn-ri your pardon?"

V picked up the chart, shoved it at the doctor, then grabbed the suit and hung it back up "Later, doc"

"I¡ªI need to do an exao ho"

Havers opened hisa hand on the doctor&039;s shoulders, he looked into the reement

"Yes¡­" Havers murmured "Later T-tomorrow?"

"Yeah, to-marched Marissa&039;s brother back out into the hall, all he could think about was the i of hi of him to¡­ want

Marissa was on fire

Butch¡­ good Lord, Butch He was heavy on top of her and big, so big her legs were stretched wide beneath her gown to accommodate hi her crazy

When he finally broke the kiss, he was breathing hard and his hazel eyes were full of sexual hunger, a rank male starvation Maybe she should have been overwhel Instead, she felt powerful

As silence stretched, she said, "Butch?" Though she wasn&039;t exactly sure what she was asking for

"Oh¡­ God, baby" With a light brush, his hand went down her neck to her collarbone He paused as he got to the top of her dress, clearly asking for perown

Which cooled her down fast Her breasts seeh, but it wasn&039;t as if she&039;d seen any other female&039;s to coust males of her kind had looked at her with Not on Butch&039;s face, and especially not if she were naked That distaste had been hard enough to bear fully clothed and co from males she didn&039;t care about

"It&039;s okay," Butch said, re his hand "I don&039;t want to push you"

He kissed her lightly and rolled off her, dragging a sheet over his hips as he eased onto his back He covered his eyes with his forear

Marissa looked down at her bodice and realized she was clutching the fabric so hard her knuckles hite "Butch?"

His arm dropped and his head turned on the pillow His face was still swollen in places, one of his eyes still black and blue And she noticed that his nose had been broken, but not recently Yet to her he was beautiful

"What, baby?"

"Have you¡­ have you had many lovers?"

He frowned Inhaled Looked like he didn&039;t want to reply "Yeah Yeah, I have"

Marissa&039;s lungs turned to concrete as she i She illing to bet the vast ins

God, she was going to throw up

"Which is another reason it&039;s good that we stop," he said

"How so?"

"I&039;one this far, but I would need a condom"

Well, at least she knehat one of those was "But why? I&039; pause didn&039;t inspire confidence And neither did the way he cursed under his breath "I haven&039;t always been careful"

"With what?"

"Sex I&039;ve had¡­ a lot of sex with people who ht not have been clean And I did it without protection" He flushed as if asha into his face "So yeah, I&039;d need a condo"

"Why weren&039;t you ive a sh¡ªer, yeah¡­" He reached out and took a piece of her hair As he carried it to his lips and kissed it, he said under his breath, "Noish I were a goddain"

"I can&039;t catch human viruses"

"I wasn&039;t just with humans, Marissa"

Now she went completely cold For some reason, if it ith females of his own species, omen, that struck her as different But another vahtly

"Somehow I don&039;t think you&039;d know her" He dropped the strand of hair and put his arm back over his eyes "God, I wish I could undo that Undo a lot of things"

Oh¡­ Jesus "It happened recently, didn&039;t it"

"Yeah"

"Do you¡­ love her?"

He frowned and looked over at her "God, no I didn&039;t even know her¡ªoh, shit, that sounds worse, doesn&039;t it"

"Did you take her into your bed? Did you sleep beside her afterward?" Why in the hell was she asking these questions? It was like poking at a cut with a steak knife

"No, it was in a club" Shock ain "Marissa,with the Brotherhood, dressed in fancy clothes¡­ that&039;s not the way I lived before And that&039;s really not who I am now"

"Who are you, then?"

"No one you&039;d ever know Even if I were a vampire, our paths would never cross I&039;uy" At her look of confusion, he said, "Lower-class"

His tone was factual, as if he were reciting his height or weight

"I don&039;t think of you as lower-class, Butch"

"Like I said, you don&039;t really know me"

"When I lie this close to you, when I s that th of him "You are the male I want to mate with That&039;s who you are"

A dark, spicy scent ca that were he a va th in the response

With fingers that shook, she went to the first of the little buttons on her bodice

He captured both her hands in one of his "Don&039;t force yourself, Marissa There are things I want from you, but I&039;m in no hurry"

"But I want to I want to be with you" She pushed hi at the buttons, except she didn&039;t get far because she was tre to have to do it"

His breath went in on an erotic hiss "You sure?"

"Yes" When he hesitated, she nodded at the bodice "Please Get this off me"

In slow succession, he freed each of the pearl buttons, his battered fingers sure, the dress opening little by little as he went Without her corset on, her naked skin was revealed in the shallow V that forot to the last one, her whole body started to quake

"Marissa, you&039;re not okay with this"

"It&039;s just¡­ No male has ever seen me before"

Butch went motionless "You are still¡­"

"Untouched," she said, hating the word