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And yes, he wanted to pierce her vein and draw her lily-sweet blood into his body until nothing else mattered

Until she was bound to him as his eternal mate, where no laws, no lies, no daain

Holy hell

The urge to ht now - nearly set his boots on a reverse course, back to his chamber It took all the self-control he had to keep hi on his forward path His footsteps echoed sharply on the earthen floor of the bunker’s corridor His transfory concrete walls His head rang with the fevered pound of his pulse, each beat a reminder of the thirst that raked him

A thirst he knew only one woman would ever truly sate

Unfortunately, he was Breed, and regardless of what - or whonored He couldn’t recall precisely the last tie state he was in now

Kellan stalked up the dark hallway of the old fort, snarling and ripe with aggression If it were nightfall outside, he’d break for the city and run until exhaustion purged the worst of his dual fevers Hunting for a blood Host was easy in the thickly settled neighborhoods of Boston and its surrounding boroughs No trick at all to find a willing and able hu laws and curfews i beyond the thick cement walls of his rebel lair

And he knew damn well the wait until sunset would be a tor as Mira was under the sae and inhu with the deain To take her

To keep her as his own, regardless of the hell they would both be forced to pay in the end

He let a growl roll through his teeth and fangs as he headed for the main area of the bunker Up ahead, he heard the soft drip of water in the shower room, the shuffle of bare feet on a wet concrete floor

Kellan glanced inside as he reached the open entryway Candice was seated on a stone bench in the dressing area, co out her wet black hair Her skin was damp under her white V-neck T-shirt, the ink of her lanced over her shoulder at hireen eyes aze and ide for a second She saw his hunger She understood She always had With a mild nod, she set down her comb and made roo this wasn’t what he wanted, not really

Candice knew that too He saw the understanding in her gentle eyes as she watched him hesitate at the threshold of the rooave him a compassionate smile

She held her hand out to hied breath

Then he stepped inside

Chapter Ten

FOR LONG MOMENTS AFTER KELLAN LEFT, MIRA DIDN’T SO much as move

Confusion rooted her bare feet to the floor Hurt made it hard to breathe for the ache in her breast And all the while, her pulse was still thru with futile, foolish desire

Don’t let , e

So, that’s all she was to him now - a bad situation that was likely to turn worse?

She didn’t want to believe that His eyes had told a different story, full of a need So did his body, hard with desire, der when he’d set her away from him and told her it couldn’t be

It was his words that left no room for error

He didn’t want her

It should have been enough, hi her he would not have her He could not let hi for her, despite the fact that their kiss had lost none of its fire in the time they’d been apart Or that they still went up in flahtest touch Still craved each other with a passion that defied even Kellan’s iron will

It should have been enough It should have relieved her, giving her the chance to put hied: as her enemy It should have provided some much-needed clarity about her duty as a warrior and her mission to ensure Jeremy Ackmeyer’s safety versus her iht back into the fold with the Order

Total fantasy, that

And yet there was a part of her that refused to let hied her that he could just walk away fro her away, the same way he’d done as that sullen, broken thirteen-year-old boy who’d arrived at the Order’s corief over the loss of his parents and kin She hadn’t stood for that then, at age eight, and she sure as hell wasn’t about to stand for it now

Mira glared at the closed door he’d storht about how hastily he’d gone - so hastily, she hadn’t heard the lock tumble into place behind him She crossed the floor and tried the latch It was open

Holy shit

A number of choices presented themselves to her in rapid succession One, she could simply stay put like he expected her to and fume until he decided what to do with her next Which totally wasn’t happening

Two, she could consider his rejection a gift to her mission objectives and attempt an i she and her huet past Kellan and all of his well-arht now andabout her anymore, or if he does, then s so they could try to renehat they once had together

No contest She was taking Door Nu Kellan out from behind the walls he’d constructed around hiive up now

She quickly tossed on his sweatpants under the oversized T-shirt she’d slept in, then slipped out the door and into the hallway outside

The bunker was very still, little sign of early hold Mira headed in the direction she recalled would lead her to the base’s ht find Kellan Worst case, if she ran into one of his crew instead, they would no doubt immediately summon their leader to her

But the place was so quiet, Mira wasn’t even sure anyone was around

Until she heard ita soft sound, co from up ahead, in one of the chambers off the corridor The showers, where Candice had taken her to clean up last night

The sound co from inside that rooht in Mira’s stomach as her feet continued a silent trek up the hallway