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He watched her, peered so intently into her eyes that she suddenly felt stripped bare of all her thoughts The sensation was disturbing as hell, and she bucked, trying to dislodge him When she struck at his face, he pressed doith his body and muscled her arhter, little killer, but I’lared, te restrained, despised the feeling of helplessness and vulnerability She especially hated that he was stronger, because they should have been an even th she’d been born with

"Get off of me"

"So you can hitto keep me like this forever, then?"

"I should kill you Here, with no Haven spell to keepyour neck"

She had no doubt he meant it, but she’d never backed down from a threat "Try it, asshole"

He watched her, his eyes still glowing gold Even when he was threatening her, he was hypnotic She watched right back, slowly becoh between her legs His muscular chest crushed her breasts, and her scrub top had ridden up so the crisp cotton of his shirt rasped against her stoi?" he asked softly "Have you even kept count?"

She snorted "How many humans have you killed?"

One dark eyebrow arched "None"

"I don’t believe you"

"Because I’m a demon So I norance is disgusting"

"Everything about you is disgusting" She tried to pretend that hadn’t been as childish as it sounded

"I could reold faded out of his eyes, replaced by the dark chocolate of desire that sucked her in like a whirlpool she couldn’t fight She had to, though, because they were engaged in a war, and her side had to win That it suddenly didn’t feel like a battle didn’t escape her notice

One of his fingers stroked her wrists where he held them over her head, and she wondered if he realized what he was doing It felt good,the situation

"What are you going to tell your Aegis buddies about ers joined the first to caress the sensitive spot where her pal," she said smoothly "If they find out that I was held by the eneain" Which could be true, but she did have to tell the swipe of his thumb over a pulse point nearly made her moan "And ould they do to you, these friends of yours?"

"I don’t know Maybe assign led at her, because she vaguely remembered another Guardian who had been captured and tortured by a brutal clan of vampires When he escaped, is HQ

For days they’d kept him sequestered, and when he finally went out on a routine patrol, he didn’t return Everyone assumed he’d been killed in battle, but Tay hadn’t been so certain What if they’d transferred hiis, or even sent hiated? Now that she was in a sirown into a two-by-four that was about to knock her upside the head

She needed an insurance policy A way to prove her loyalty if it ever ca on top of her, his heart pounding strong and steady against her chest, was just the ticket She could turn him over to them, if she had to

"Look, Hellboy, what do you say we call it a draw and you let aze made her lose hope "What are you up to?"

His thumb still ran over the sensitive skin of her wrist in slow, rhythainst her core with every tiny movement from either one of them It wasn’t fair, the way he could make her so aware of her body, of every inch of skin that touched his It was alh her concentration had turned inward, soaround her existed

And because of that, she didn’t hear the scrape of claws on flooring until it was too late

Eidolon was rarely caught off-guard, his instincts too honed, his experience with danger too vast But the s’genesis had hijacked his senses, his thoughts, and Tayla distracted him with her curves and her voice and her scent, and as a result, they’d just been taken by surprise

Hell’s fking bells, as Shade would say

Still stretched out on top of Tayla, he turned to the creature lurking just inside the kitchen passage doorway "There’s nothing for you here, carrion-eater Leave"

The Obhirrat shuffled into the living roo, razor claws on one hand clacked together in a spine-tingling, steady beat Beneath its transparent skin,that few could look upon the creature for aze even as he sed bile

Slowly, casually, he pushed off Tayla He didn’t help her up; any shoeakness would set off the creature Tayla must have known, caance as she squared her stance next to him

As if they were a team

Given the situation, he wasn’t about to coer" The Obhirrat’s snakelike tongue slipped between long teeth, tasting the air

"I destroyed the injured va on the beady red eyes that kept shifting to Tayla, "so there is nothing for you here"

The creature’s claws clicked faster The ots beneath its skin writhed anew and even the air seeitation "She was mine"

Eidolon stepped forward, and Tayla moved with hi concentration on her made him wish she’d stayed back "Tell me where you picked up her scent"

"Why should I help the one who stole e that the creature would have started feasting on Nancy’s flesh while she was still alive set Eidolon on fire

"Ever is slayer?" he said with a deadly caler in its eyes replaced by alarly fuck, and I can tell her exactly how to take you apart so your little "