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Dammit!

So into high gear "Security Open up"

She pushed to her feet and confronted the two Egyptianher destroyed door

"Ma’a to the room next to Josh’s, "this is your rooers are reporting that it was a… monster?"

She s "He was just a man"

The men took her statement--she explained that someone had tried to rob her and then escaped--and when she was finished, they left her alone to question witnesses

She closed the door and returned to Josh, wondering when--when, not if--Byzamoth would return

He wasn’t done with her He’d coinity She shuddered, i the horror

Ar about the end of days

"I’m sorry, mom," she murmured Her mother had trusted Serena to keep the necklace safe, and Serena had failed Soet that necklace back, but she was defenseless against Byzaain would be akin to offering her virginity up on a platter

Again, the vision of the fallen angel attacking her, tearing her clothes away, assaulted her brain She’d never forget his disgusting words, nor the smell of brimstone and feces on his breath

Josh had saved her this tih to take on Byza, and he wouldn’t have the strength to protect her again Byzah with his diabolical plan

Unless she could get the necklace back Unless soet the necklace back So what had to be done

Serena’s hands felt so good on hi Wraith had ever felt before They worshipped hilided down his stoue made him hiss with pleasure

Lower Oh, yeah, that’s it

He kept his hands at his sides and let her play, let her unbutton his jeans and release his swollen cock He thought she’d take him into her mouth, but instead, she straddled hi his shaft between her slick folds

Da to make love to her, and here, in his sleep, he could He nearly groaned when she angled her hps to guide the head of his penis to her entrance

"I love you, Josh"

Josh Even in his dreams she couldn’t call him by his name He fisted the sheets, let the vibration of the train lull him when all he wanted to do was punch his hps upward and take her

Train… train? Josh Not a dream!

His eyes shot open, and oh, holy hell Serena was braced above hirabbed her waist, but he was too weak to stop her She sank down, burying his shaft deep Her barrier broke, and she cried out before stifling the sound with her fist jay per his heart into overdrive The weakness that had been dragging hih hihty roar

"Oh, babe," he breathed "Oh… fk, what have you done?"

She had to know she’d started a countdown to her death

"I couldn’t let you die" She looked down at hiaze warm and liquid She smiled, and then winced as she shifted "I know you said you can’t give ue, to rail against what she said, what she believed, but he couldn’t His feelings for her went too deep "I shouldn’t have told you--"

"Don’t" She dug her nails into his chest The pleasure-pain was exquisite "I’ve been waiting too long for this to ruin it with regrets"

He didn’t think he could feel anything but regret until she dragged the backs of her fingers up his pecs and brushed them over his niles Back arched, she rolled her hps in a fluid surge He pulsed inside her, his desire growingby the second