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There was nolashes, and Lena’s breath caught No male had ever looked at her the way Nate did, and she liked it

Con, however, did not He went taut, as if preparing to defend her, his silver eyes flashing like razor blades, but quickly, she put herself between them with a casual smile and took Con’s forearm

"I’ll walk you out," she said cheerily "It was nice of you to stop by Tell Eidolon I’ll consider his offer"

A barely audible rule of pleasure skittered over her skin at the possessive quality of Nate’s growl Even if he only wanted her for the club, it was nice to be valued Oh, she knew that UG valued her, but here she had fewer supervisors and more autonohn is dead Right Talk about a cold splash of water

Con stopped at the doorway "It’s okay, Lena I can find aze shifted to Nate, and he bared his fangs before returning to her "Just take care of yourself If you need anything--" once again, he gave Nate the you’re-dead-if-you-har at all, you know to call"

"I know" She went up on her toes to kiss him on the cheek "And thank you"

Con strode away, and when she turned back to Nate, once again, her breath was stolen fros Dressed in faded jeans and a navy T-shirt that clung to every sculpted muscle like shrink-wrap, he stood next to the exa down his back and around his shoulders in a shi with lethal power He wasnificent

"Is he your lover?" Nate’s voice was deep, husky, and she shivered with feminine appreciation

"Hardly He’s mated to my boss’s sister"

"I’m your boss"

Damn Nice screw-up "Of course you are It’s just that I worked there for a long tiet used to the fact that I’m not there any Instead, in brutal, heart-pounding silence, he strode to the door and closed it

The click of the lock was the loudest sound she’d ever heard, and she actually jumped like a twitchy rabbit

Riveted by curiosity and the ht of him, she watched as he wheeled around and closed the distance between them As he looked down at her, his expression was a curious ret that she didn’t understand

"Now," he said softly, "we finish e started inlit The tiht club had worked hio determined that the more primitive the environet more primitive than the South American rain forest

Thanks to the make-out session in his office with Vladlena before he left, he’d already been cole jacked hi beneath ancient trees, on soil touched only by beasts as he inhaled the clean, unpolluted air that suar that had passed recently, had made him vibrate with pure, animal desire He’d wanted to hunt, to feed, to mate

He’d understood the moment he’d set foot on the site why Fade had chosen it There was an elemental power at play there, and no underworld creature would be able to resist it A gladiatorial arena placed on the soil would become the demon equivalent of the Roman Colosseum, and with the blood sacrifice to bind evil to itit was conceivable that the land could be claimed in the name of Sheoul--or hell, as huht now Nate was having trouble concentrating on anything but the female in front of him He was so aroused, so on fire that he expected to see s her with that ahole vampire, their relationship so familiar, hadn’t helped Nate had wanted to destroy the s to Vladlena on a necklace, and then rut with her on the very ground where he’d won the battle

And wasn’t that sexy He nearly rolled his eyes Da with the caveht of her wearing his gift It , and for so her into his lair Instead, because a sliver of civility had pierced through the jungle haze, he gripped her shoulders and pushed her against the wall She didn’t protest Not that he expected her to; the scent of her desire filled the roo up his need even et between those toned thighs This was about saving her fro death on an altar--a death he was tasked to be responsible for

No, he couldn’t profess that he didn’t want this for himself--he’d been unnaturally obsessed with Lena since she walked into his office Even her virginity should have been a turnoff He’d avoided virgins like their veins ran with holy water instead of blood But in Lena’s caseda her first, of laying clai her for his own and keeping her

Except that couldn’t happen This would be a one-ti, because if Fade even suspected that Nate wanted her, she was dead