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He said nothing for a long ri time, Melena And it was easy Until I found you"

Maybe she should have beenthere giving her all of his reasons for why he was intent on breaking her heart Instead, she thought back on everything they’d said to each other in heated anger and passion last night

It was true, he had tried to resist her He’d tried to push her away before he lost his damnable restraint She hadn’t helped, but she wasn’t the one pretending she could walk away froether as a couple

Lazaro had tried to warn her that he wasn’t a hero coht not be safe in his arid honor and long-lived control, he hadn’t been able to stop hi her

He’d pierced her vein, sed her bloodcreated a bond that no other wo as Melena drew breath

And wasn’t that a convenient benefit of his colossal slip of self-discipline?

"Did you use ether "Use you? Christ, no Melena, you can’t possibly think that--"

"Two decades of denial gone after just two days," she re inside you, you’ll never be tempted by another Breed as I live, so when you walk away from me now, you’re free Free as you’ve never been all this tiratulations I’ itch for you"

He moved so fast she couldn’t track him One moment he was several feet away at the closed door of the roo body, his hands clamped around her biceps His eyes flashed with furious amber

"You are not an itch I needed to scratch" His voice rue "Damn it, Melena Don’t say that Don’t ever believe that"

"Then what are we doing? You’ve been shutting me out since we left Rome If you care for me--and I know you do, I can see it, I can feel it--then why are you pulling away?"

"Because I can’t do this again You know loss, Melena, but you don’t knohat it is to lose a ain And with you--" He blew out a harsh curse "I’ve seen you nearly die twice I don’t want to knohat that would feel like now that your blood lives inside me And I don’t want to be the reason you’re not safe My life is coerous life I won’t put you in the crossfire"