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Or, at least, until they either froze to death or Eidolon found the sex," sheorgasainst his skin, but he couldn’t find anything a about it This was just one h her shell, and probably not for the better And wasn’t he a massive ball of indecision? Because he couldn’t decide if it was best for her to feel again or not She needed to be happy, to have a fahed, and Sin joined hiet back to the cabin" "I’d give anything to be able toabout what’s next," he said, kissing her neck lightly "To just lounge around and do nothing but touch you Feed you Watch movies"

She chuckled "Sounds so normal I wouldn’t knohat to do" She lifted her head, stared into his eyes, and her set out of my commitment to the Assassin’s Guild?"

Grief hollowed out his chest, turning it into a bottoht his hand up to cup her cheek Even if she could get out of it, he couldn’t get out of his own obligations And he definitely couldn’t risk hurting or even killing Sin "Don’t Let’s not go there"

She nipped the pad of his finger "Come visit me You can come to the den--"

"Sin…"

"Please" The strain in her voice ive you up"

God, his heart broke wide open, and he heard himself reply with a serious disconnect between his o to you," he said

But it was a lie

Twenty-one

The eency departate, leaving Sin inside, her lips swollen fro about it actually turned out to be easy, given the crazy s fro around the eency department on stretchers and on the floor, lined up all the way down the two hallways leading from the area

Con immediately jumped in to help, and it was nearly four hours before the situation was under control He spent the next hour with Bastien, doing what he could to co until Con called time of death Afterward, Sin’s brothers, Tayla, and Luc joined hi area

"Where’s Sin?" Shade asked as he stripped off his bloody surgical gloves

Con’s own gloves got tossed in the trash, and et in the shower "On her way to the den"

Eidolon swore "I thought you were going to talk her out of that She didn’t need to go back there She’d be safe here"

Unbelievably, Lore caet back to nor joke that was Her norless sex Probably with that Lycus guy Jealousy expanded in Con’s chest as an inappropriate blast of heat curled through his veins There had been nothing less about what he and Sin had done at the mountain safe house Or in the snow Every cell in his body vibrated with hunger for her, both for her body and her blood, and just thinking about it was revving hiain

"What about you, Con?" Shade asked, and Con took two deep, cal breaths before he answered "What about ht?"

"No," Con said levelly "I’m not" But even he didn’t believe his oords

Wraith flipped a blade in the air, a very Sin-like move "Okay, what the fk is all the subtext here?" He blinked when everyone stared at him "What? Like I don’t knohat subtext is? I watch htly, and the deer One on each hand

E and Lore returned their focus to Con with varying expressions of confusion, and Shade looked like he ht want to rip Con’s throat out Yeah, Con’s secret was about to be revealed "Male dhampires are prone to blood addiction if they feed off the same feht, Con?"