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"Well, yeah, he didn’t have the right" I said "Not without my permission" I frowned and watched him, wary "Look, it was just a kiss, and an odd one at that I mean, it lasted a few seconds at ain "Nothing with hiain, eyes traveling overto realize that," I said with a wry sripped ers in ht you had lords to attend to?"
"I ahtened his hands in my hair with the perfect ahbusiness here"
His mouth came down on mine, fierce and possessive, as if to remind me what a real kiss was like His arms came aroundrinned as he took hold of my sweater and pulled it over lad of it now as he lowered his head to htly bite as he undid the fastening of rabbed the waistband, and yanked them off me in one fluid rowled before lowering his head between an to work soue Mzatal certainly hadn’t touchedwhatever he felt necessary to fuck the Mzatal off me, so to speak More than okay In no tiasm Mzatal who? I don’ know any Mzatal…
Rhyzkahl was far frohtened up, eyes still lit with a possessive fire that ht ways "You are mine," he snarled "My suh to free his erection, which so like a nuclear reactor in asped
To h his eyes narrowed in question
"Swear toto catch my breath Back at home I was on the pill Here, I had no such protection, and I did not want to take the chance that a lord/huh I couldn’t tell if it was in aet you with child," he told me "I swear I will not do such without your consent" Before I could do more than nod in acceptance, he seized my hips, flipped me onto my stomach, then pulled me up to my hands and knees and entered me in the same movement With one hand he pushedlow guttural cries from me with every thrust He knew ht now I didn’t want love, and he was dahtened in ea hoarse screarasp Rhyzkahl continued to thrust deeply as I shuddered, but as soon as I was finished he pulled free and turned ain His s around hi as he kissed ainst his mouth and slid my arms around to stroke the smooth muscles of his back
He broke the kiss to nuzzle below my ear "I am deeply pleased you escaped to co your clairazed my neck "Dahn I have no need to claian to thrust harder, and my desire for any sort of conversation fled I liftedWas it some sort of demonic lord trick that made that possible? If that was the case, I was totally ruined for human men
I clutched at him as the pleasure built between us He came first, with le of limbs and hair and sweat andwithininto h I lifted up my arm "I even have the tat to prove it"
Chapter 14
After Rhyzkahl left to greet the lords, I dozed a bit Or uid stupor until well after theain with the no knocking, but bearing food
After bathing and dressing--and discovering that I was nowhere near as sore as I should have been after the ’s exertions--I headed out to explorefor h I had no idea whether it was because Rhyzkahl decided to trust me or because the reyza had been disciplined for rove I hoped to hell it wasn’t the latter I liked Kehlirik, and he’d been distracted only because of his efforts to shield me from Sehkeril’s harassment
At the sauarded, even if I didn’t have a giant deht flickers of lint of eyes hidden in shadows After I stepped outside I peered up at the towers, unsurprised to see Pyrenth and two kehza peering right back at uarded
It’s for ht came with a sour twist of annoyance The memory of the incident with Kadir rose, and a shiver ran overto do with the chill in the air Kehlirik hadn’t been able to shield me from the creepy lord’s attentions What the hell was I supposed to do if that sort of thing happened again? I scowled as I trudged up the path on the side of the palace away fro that an oath would be sufficient protection
I crested a rise and ly verdant winter grass atop the cliff overlooking the turquoise sea A light breeze snuck its way through h clouds streaked the sky, and I wondered if the weather was sih to Earth’s that fronts could be predicted by how the clouds moved Not that I kne to do that I predicted the weather by calling up the forecast ondraped in flowering ivy and surrounded by bushes of brilliant reds and blues Soft musical tones reached my ears, and as I approached I saw s to catch the wind and ringing far entle warils told ainst wind and cold azebo rose to delicate filigree arches, the stone translucent and glowing in the sun
I settled on a bench and let the low s soothe an to pluck golden winter fruits Long-winged birds with iridescent green plu soft cries that sounded more catlike than birdlike It was all so very close to Earth yet not, in a way that was so, like a doll that was a little too lifelike
From where I sat I had an excellent view of the sea to ht, and I realized the gazebo had likely been situated for that My gaze swept over theA chill raced down my spine I squinted and realized that the dip in that area wasn’t a natural valley but a h to have taken out half a ns of the cataclysm The decimated location of another ancient valve
A scrape of sound on the steps drew my attention I turned as a woown and a rich, dark blue, hooded cloak stepped into the gazebo Probably in her early twenties, she had long and lush chestnut hair and big brown eyes Her gaze fell on od!" she exclaimed "Detective Gillian!"
"Uence How the hell did this woman knoho I was, and ould she call"You don’t remember It’s me…Michelle" Apparently I still looked utterly baffled because she added, "Michelle Cleland" She laughed "I guess I looked pretty shitty the last time you saw me"
My jaw dropped This was Michelle Cleland? The last time I’d seen her she’d been tied up in thecircle A crack addict who’d turned tricks to score et for the serial killer Now I could see that, yes, the features were the saaunt look of an addict, her skin and hair gloith vibrant health, and she’d filled out to where she was now slender instead of skinny But an to grin "You look as have been okay for you here?"
"It’s been awesoed the cloak around her "This may sound kinda lame, but thank you I know you saved ht the here saved lad I a so well," I said "To be honest, I had no idea what really happened to you after the ritual" I griht you were dead"