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A tide of possessiveness swamped him Unbidden Undeserved

Yet undeniable, especially when Mira wasfor him so sweetly

He swiveled his head back to admire the flushed pink temptation of her sex A brief kissthe juicy petals made her suck in a sharp breath, sent her hands into his hair, holding hiht the intoxicating taste of her into histo corasp her firryin her In that next instant, she shattered against his h her in pretty waves He lapped her up, thirsty fordown off his shoulder and grabbed at hi in his soaked T-shirt, trying to yank it off him "Inside ument Pulled off his shirt and tossed it to the shower floor in a wet heap, then kicked off his boots while Mira worked on the buttons of his drenched jeans She fumbled more than once and he took over No sooner had he opened the last button, Mira pushed his pants down over his hips, freeing his engorged cock into her aiting hands

She stroked him a few times, and God help him, it was all he could bear

Gathering her up in his arhs around his waist and drove horunted with the force of their joining, both of the her, stretching her like a silken glove around his girth He puone to take it easy

He fell into an urgent rhyth her face as the crest of another cli into his ass, fingernails scoring his shoulders His own orgash his veins

Mira gripped hi into rapid pants as the first treth of Kellan’s shaft He plunged deeper, harder, pushing her toward it Holding back his own need until he felt her start to splinter around hi like a furnace against his ear

Kellan kept his fevered eyes on her, drinking in every nuance of her release She was so beautiful So da hi in and out of her slick sheath

His orgasht train, fierce and uncontainable

He ca wildly, unable to stop even after the last of his seed had poured out of him Spent but far from sated, he dropped his head to the curve of her shoulder and si the feel of her body pressed to his, the hot, wet haven of her sex holding hi over the side of her neck, where her pulse throbbed in time with his

Her softly whispered answer sifted into his hair where her lips rested against the top of his head "You didn’t let go"

Chapter Fifteen

THEY MADE LOVE AGAIN, SLOWLY, THEN TOOK TURNS washing each other under the warm spray of the shower

A fewdressed with hiine that they were a couple in truth, sharing this space as bondedthe bed as lovers, which shouldn’t have been as te the number of times he’d just made her come

Mira watched Kellanto his lyph-adorned biceps His long, fired his fine ass and rode at just the right level on his sharply cut hips

He was gorgeous, and a few o she had tasted every divine inch of him She allowed herself to savor thatnear the foot of the bed in just her bra and panties

It was so easy to feel norive that up She’d never be ready for that, no matter what her dalance over his shoulder as he buttoned the fly of his jeans "Good as you look like that, you’d better put soain" He lifted his chin, indicating his clothing trunk at her feet "You’ll find more shirts in there Take your pick"

The black jeans she’d had on the day she and Jereht to the rebel base were still in decent shape, a bit worse for wear, but doable Her shirt had been toast, ripped up in the scuffle and ruined with blood and gris in front of Kellan’s clothing locker and sifted through the dozen or so Ts and jerseys stacked neatly inside

Her hand bu cold and metallic, tucked between a few of the articles She pulled it out to see what it was A hand ant and feminine, the back of it fashioned of polished silver, inlaid with delicate black onyx cut into the shape of a gracefully arched bow bearing a nocked arrow - the Archer farandmother," Kellan said when Mira looked up at hiertip over the careful crafts-et this?"

When he disappeared years earlier, he’d taken nothing with hiht of the patrol that had gone so wrong

Kellan strode over and gently took the rasp He turned it over in his hands, his o, I ran reconnaissance on a s and susta Realized when randfather, Lazaro’s, old place up there"

"The temporary compound the Order moved into after our headquarters in Boston was coh she’d been just a girl at the time she and Kellan and the rest of the warriors and their mates had lived there

After First Dawn, it was decided by Lucan and the other elders that the Order needed to spread its resources around the United States and Europe, to better cos and violence that occurred in the wake of the Breed’s outing to randfather, was now the leader of the Order’s coood times - and the handful of bad - that had taken place in that hidden Darkhaven compound nestled in the deep woods of northern Maine Her first snowball fight, pitted against Kellan and Nathan Her first Christmas tree, shared with Renata and Nikolai and the rest of her new family, all of the warriors and their mates The presentation ceremony for Xander Raphael, Dante and Tess’s son, who’d been born just days before the Order’s eency relocation from Boston

Sothem too

"The place was vacant, or I never would’ve risked going near it," he said "But there were a few things left behind Furnishings, soand this" He touched the bow-and-arrow erandfather’s quarters, on top of a dressing table he’dpines The mirror was charred and blackened with soot and ash I realized then and there that he one back to our Boston Darkhaven after it had been razed He h the rubble to retrieve this, even though he’d vowed he would never go back to the scene of her death Back to the house that took her and my parents - all of my kin, his kin - down in fla in her breast