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Jehan released her abruptly His blue eyes glittered with sparks of a his desire all too clear He ran his tongue over his wet lips and she saw the points of his fangs, now glea in his mouth like razor-sharp diah and raw

"Let’s go," he growled for her ears only "The sooner we get this damned farce over with, the better"

Then he took her by the hand and stalked away from the table with her in tow

CHAPTER 6

Jehan’s body was still rock hard and vibrating with lust more than an hour after he and Seraphina were delivered to the oasis retreat

Holy hell That kiss

As short-lived and chaste as it had been, it had gripped hiered him

He hadn’t been able to deny how attracted he was to Seraphina from the instant he laid eyes on her Now he knew she wanted him too Her response to their kiss had left no question about that The color that had rushed up her throat and into her cheeks couldn’t be bla else, nor could her soft little moans He’d felt her desire for him He’d breathed in the sweet scent of her arousal, felt it dru in her blood

His own blood had answered, and now that hispri Breed--pounded with a dark¸ dangerous need for ed to rein it in back at the Darkhaven celebration

Now, he just had to make sure to keep his desire in check for the duration of their confinehts, that’s all, he reassured hiive or take the few that had already passed tonight

Which meant somewhere around eleven thousand minutes All of them to be spent in too-close quarters with a wo in his body like a fla

Everything they , toiletries, a fully stocked kitchen for Seraphina They would want for nothing froether until the handfasting had ended

They’d divvied up the place as soon as they’d been dropped off, negotiating territory and establishing boundaries where neither of theive her the privacy of the eneral living quarters, and use the big nest of cushions in the main roo into the sole bedroom suite on her own, Jehan prowled the open space of the villa like a caged cat, taking stock of the unfas spread over terra cotta tiled floors Above his head, the high, dolinted off a lass e of the hallway opposite the bedroom where Seraphina had sequestered herself was a traditional bathing roo-fed pool surrounded by silk-draped columns and fat pillar candles

In the adjacent, open-concept chaed around the rooically placed in front of tall, ornately fra bottles of perfumed oils and incense jars co his head The handfast agree himself on the Breedmate sent with him to this place, but every rooned with sex and seduction inSeraphina reclined on those cushions or stepping naked out of the steahts

He would be lucky tohisbehind on the other side of the villa