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"I want to knohy you feel the need to clamp a hard lid down on who you truly are, Jordana The wo last week The woht like she was drowning under the weight of everything that was expected of her" Nathan came closer still, until his chest brushed hers, his body searing the length of her "I want to knohy you try so hard to deny the woman you truly are, Jordana"

"I don’t knohat you , even to her own ears "I’ And you don’t know the first thing about me"

"Don’t I?" His dark eyes flashed with aain, she spied the razor-sharp tips of his fangs behind his sensual upper lip "You wanted ht one with ave a sharp toss of her head "No I would have done no such thing--"

"Yes, Jordana, you would have" He save her no mercy at all "And today in the supply room of the command center, you wanted s I wanted to you"

She sed hard, her aze

"You waited for it," he said "You crave it now, as much as I do"

A sound curled up from her throat, but if she’d hoped to be able to deny what he was saying, the soft moan that slipped past her lips was a pitiful effort "Don’t say such things You have no right--"

"Why not, Jordana?" he pressed "Why not say it if it’s the truth? Why should either of us pretend we can stop what’s going on between us?"

"Because--" She sucked in a breath, searching for the strength to refuse hiently now, yet no less co "Tell me why you’d rather scurry back behind your faations you’ve constructed into your own prison?"

Jordana brought her fingers up to her lips, trying to bite back the words that would betray her They spilled out anyway, a whispered rush "Because I’ flickered over Nathan’s stern features--shock or understanding, sympathy or pity; she couldn’t be sure

He reached behind him and hit the stop button on the elevator With a soft rock, the car came to a cushioned halt inside the shaft

Jordana’s eyes ide "What are you doing?"

Nathan didn’t answer "Tell h her "Sea on in here"

"I don’t give a fuck," Nathan growled "Neither should you"

"He can see us," Jordana pointed out, glancing past Nathan, toward the s down at theh he didn’t sodevice blinked out, snuffed by the power of Nathan’s Gen One Breed mind "Now it’s just you and me, Jordana I’m the only one who can see you I’m the only one ill hear you Are you afraid now?"

When she looked down in silence, Nathan’s warers ca to let her hide even her gaze froave a weak shake of her head, astonished that it wasn’t fear she felt with thisfar more powerful than that More powerful than the desire he stirred in her as well She trusted him

Nathan didn’t have to dereen eyes and unexpectedly gentle touch compelled her with equal measure "My father’s had a very strict path laid out for s for oals he’s set for me He does it out of love, I know that He only wants what’s best for me"

"I’m sure he does" Nathan closed the scant distance between the intent "What do you want?"

"I don’t know," she admitted quietly "But sohter he wantsto wake up one day and realize I no longer want the things he thinks are best for aze "I’ low and dark, under his breath His features sharpened,his face more fierce, as profane as it was handso to brave a touch of his angled cheekbone and rigid jaw

Nathan caught her in ers around her wrist before she could rip arm but firm Wordlessly, he raised her hand up and away froainst the back wall of the elevator car

Jordana didn’t knohat to say--she didn’t knohat to think--as he then brought her other hand up as well and held it there She tested his hold and found it unyielding As unbreakable as iron

Staring up at him, she sed, all too aware of how her current position left her totally at Nathan’s mercy With her hands held above her head, her spine pressed against the solid wall of the elevator car, the only place she could possiblyheat of his body Her breasts strained against the buttons of her conservative silk blouse Her legs were spread slightly to keep her balance, and cool air tickled up the bare lengths of her calves and thighs,at her core

Every fe thru in her blood

He switched his grasp so that one hand shackled her wrists, leaving his other free to roa the slope of her cheek, then down along the swells of her breasts, hardly touching her yether burn with sensation "Are you afraid of asp, breathless not fro sense of her own vulnerability

Nathan held her completely under his control She couldn’t have broken loose of his hold if her life depended on it Nor did she want to

He owned her in that moment, and damn him if he didn’t know it too

He reveled in it; she could see the dark pleasure in his eyes as he drank her in froht confines of the lift Amber sparks pierced the thundercloud color of his irises His broad th of his fangs

He bent toward her and took herkiss

Jordana had no experience with such hard passion, such hungered de as his lips covered hers, claiue pushed at the sea to this further claih her, then pooled hs

She’d never been kissed like this She was lost to it, her liuid and boneless, her veins lit up and electric