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Her gaze slid away, her eyes closing, her head tilting back in the throes of passion

"Look at aze and grinned at him, a womanly smile that nearly drove hi to hi depths Love flared up inside hi his breath, squeezing his heart in a tender vise

Her s, her expression pure bliss, her cries turning to gasps andin her eyes

And he ca his seed and his heart and his soul into her

His body thoroughly e, he sank down onto her, bracing the bulk of his weight on his forearainst hers, his eyes closed at last When he could move, he lifted up to look down at her and met her exhausted sree" He stroked her hair back fro her with hiainst his chest, his cock still buried deep inside her "I never want to leave you"

Goddess He cupped her precious head in his hand and kissed her hair I will do anythinganythingif only you can help me repair this break with my hawk And stay with this woman who has my heart

But the goddess couldn’t help him This he had to do himself

And he didn’t know the way

Faith lay with her cheek against Hawke’s da beneath her ear as quickly as her own beat in her chest Being with hi as her first flight Breathtaking,her eyes burn with unshed tears as the awful fear that she was going to lose him pressed down on her

He kissed her one o ho him slide out of her, then stood while he rose and handed her the T-shirt They dressed, then Hawke pulled out his cell phone and started pressing buttons

"It’s as station" When she lifted a brow, he mouthed, "GPS" Ahis phone in his pocket, heto Lyon, there’s trouble Again"

Chapter Nineteen

"Hawke, Falkyn," Wulfe said, as Hawke handed Faith into the cab of the wolf shifter’s pickup "I’lad to see that you bothmade it back into your skins I assuht as rain What’s the trouble?"

"Lyon hasn’t said We’re et back"

When they were on the road, Faith leaned forward "A to be called Falkyn all the tilanced back at her "I’ll call you whatever you’d like in private You’ll always be Faith to entled his eyes "Or Smiley But yes, your Feral name is Falkyn, now"

She didn’t want to offend, but"Why?"

"Tradition," Wulfe said

Hawke nodded "I was just talking to Kougar about the naoes back to the time of the Sacrifice, when most Therians lost the power of their ani that only one of each animal would be able to shift at a ti to take that power for theether for their own safety But they were each from a different clan They didn’t know one another, but battle positions needed to be assigned by animal The as the tracker, the birds acted as recon Rather than try to remember the names of each of his men, the first chief called them by their animals for simplicity’s sake, and it stuck It was easier for all of theths Later, as each new Feral washim or her a new name - a warrior name - became a symbolic rebirth Since some of those early newly marked Ferals had been part of the bands that had tried to hunt down the original Ferals, that rebirth was particularly iinals for past acts against thear He says he sees the name in his mind as the Feral shifts, and he says it, and, if requested, spells it for the new Feral the way he saw it"

She liked the na so to realize, had never really believed in herself Part of her had always felt that if she’d been a better daughter, her ht have loved her, and her enclave wouldn’t have left without her But Hawke had changed all that As had the falcon spirit when she’d infor marked had been no accident Falkyn was a Feral Warrior A woman who believed herself worthy, as Faith never had

But it was Faith hom Hawke had fallen in love Faith who’d fallen in love with him

"Are you ready to be Falkyn?" Hawke asked her softly

"Yes Faith was my past Falkyn is my future"

He smiled "Faith is your heart, Sth Don’t lose her As you told rate the two halves of myself, you must do the same To me, in private, you’ll always be Faith" His sht be a very short ti the foyer when Wulfe, Hawke, and Faith walked through the front door a short while later

"War rooar said "We have trouble"

Hawke nodded "So I heard, though I’d love to go one day without hearing those words"

Faith looked at him "I need clothes"

Hawke rather liked the look of the T-shirtand nothing elsebut he caught Jag noticing just how little she had on and nodded "Hurry"

An irin bloomed on her face a second before she disappeared in a spray of sparkling lights andwas gone Out of the corner of his eye, he caught theover the second-floor banister

"What the fuck?" Jag gaped "She disappeared!"

Hawke found hi with pride at the disbelief on his brothers’ faces "No She’s just incredibly quick"

They were still standing there in stunned disbelief when the small falcon dive-bombed them twenty seconds later As she shifted back to her hu dres

Hawke shoved her behind him "Stand down! FaithFalkyntake it easy in the house, at least until they get used to your newfound speed"

She peeked at thehter in her voice, he glanced at her She was grinning like a pixie