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Mark pulled away and I couldn’t help my small moan of disappointment as I latched my mouth back on his

"Krista, we need to stop for ato get oxygen flowing througha hard ti sweetheart You don’t have the appropriate energy to kiss the way I want to kiss you We’re on unfaer replenish your needs"

"U for breath

He chuckled "I er have the power to heal each other"

"I know," I said as grief for what I had destroyed threatened to crash over rief on ently "Look at what you can do Your gifts exceed everything we could ever ihtly kissed the sensitive skin high on ht belowby the sensations his kiss had stirred inside me I heard hi able to read my mind, he could read me like an open book He moved his lips tokiss on the closed lids Imy new duties, and I was sure ht, and my mentor, Haniel, but I couldn’t see selfish and letting o to waste, but as I lay curled up in Mark’s arms, I felt I was exactly where I should be I had lost hiain

"Well, well, well, as sweet as this was to watch from the monitors, I reallyinto the oversized roo behind him "Krista, it loathesIt’s a shah You would haveHarifts, yet your ability to transport to another location see herself appropriately," he continued in a biting tone that contradicted the genial outward appearance he was shooting for

Haratory under her breath Victor turned on her with lightning-quick reflexes, fir his hand around her slender throat "Don’t think for one moment that your newfound relationship with The Dark One will save you froers around her neck, e

I pulledto stop hie kept Mark and ifts to break his hold on her throat

"She is not insolent like you and Mark," he snarled at hts from my overworked brain I would have tried to block hiy I had to stand "She knows her rightful place and respects those that have created her," he said, shaking her by the throat to emphasize his point

Tears of pain leaked down her cheeks and after a moment he released his hold on her I watched, sickened as Har for breath

"I’ed, pulling on his pant leg much like a toddler would

"I know you think you’re sorry ive you life," he said, pulling her to her feet

"I will, I proly obvious

"Nohere e? Oh yes, ere discussing Krista’s ability to do soed Descended have been lazily unable to accomplish," he said to the now remorseful Harmony

"I don’t kno she does it father," Harmony said in a plaintive voice

"Then perhaps ill have to search for a solution that will give us insight into this gift of yours," he said, directing the stateue out than help you further your sadistic plan," I said, stepping back away froain Krista, your insolence tests ht motivation you will be a littleon his heel "Co"

My stomach dropped as I watched Harmony and Victor leave the room His point was clear For the third tiain at Victor’s mercy Even with Haniel’s help, we had soet the upper hand And I sure didn’t help by transporting into this electric cell rather than help ht just wasn’t strong enough to avoid an eclipse by The Dark Good versus evil had been battling it out for years and ere s I sank back down on the ground, no longer having the will or inclination to stand up

"Krista, it’s going to be okay," Mark said, sinking down next tomy arm to co held captive so I’m scared of what he has done to them, but most of all I’m scared of what he has done to Haniel," I continued quietly

Mark paused halfway up s for Haniel?"

"Of course"

"I see," Mark said, pulling away

Puzzled, I looked at the withdrawn look on Mark’s face "What?" I asked confused

"Nothing," heback

Confused and hurt at his sudden e, I allowed hed out loud with relief

"You dork I don’t love hi at him

"Are you sure? Every time you talk about him your voice takes on a different quality I know you two have been spending a lot of tiht make you turn to someone else"

"I could never turn to anyone else It has always been you, and only you," I said as he dragged me back in his arms His lips smothered out any further talk as he made it clear I was only his I returned his kiss with fervor, feeling ," I said, pulling back slightly to replenish ain," Mark said with a s," I said lightly, ain This tientle and tender as he cuppedup reluctantly "As nice as this is, we need to find a way out," I said

"I know," Mark said also standing

"Let e of the small couch in the makeshift jail

Mark pulled up the cuff of his jeans so I could inspect it closer