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He griht fro He wasn’t taking a ive up his freedo ritual was irreversible And if it had seeether At least now he had an option to end his loneliness If he took a o back On the surface, he realized such reasoning otten the tiniest taste of it in his eight thousand years as a de

Ta else in mind?" The tone in her voice made it clear she knew exactly as on his ainst the wall of the cave "You woke me from a nice dream Then you had the audacity to stop ic I was very acco for me"

He smirked when his double entendre, complete with filthy asped and flushed like that Her gaze drifted south and then back up again to his face quickly, as if caught with her hands in the cookie jar

"Touch asped when her s him like only a woman with over a thousand years experience could He’d never understand the in It didn’t matter who else had been there first Every bit of experience was soood her hand felt on hi about conserving her y to do the séance was true Maybe the ay one was using Maybe it took a lot of energy andenough for a chat What did he know about the finer details ofit as hly flaainst him as his mouth found hers She was so warm and sweet and pliable this way He needed less and less of the deet her to this place He suspected if he held out, she’d beg him to keep her, no matter what she said to the contrary Her body told truths that her ine And ould he do then? Laugh and kill her like he’d said?

He growled angrily against her er, he’d lose because he’d keep her And if he went down that road, how much farther before he lost his mind entirely and became so attached that what Luc had done with Anna started to look good?

He’d already had the urge to mix their blood to protect her, but froainst demons, and no one in his dimension would dare defy him on this No, it was simply a need to possess, and now that his ione, that need made itself known more loudly

"O!" Taround across the cave, sy ball burn He rubbed his shoulder They didn’t usually do the fighting thing after the foreplay thing had started Nohim too much to interrupt their momentum

"What the fuck did you bite me for?" She wiped the blood off her lip with the back of her hand, looking equal parts hurt and angry, like for a moment she had trusted him At least within certain peris had co her wasn’t the thing that had him panicked Somehow, he’d drawn his own blood as well He felt the tiny sting of throbbing pain in his tongue Had their blood mixed? It wasn’t the traditional ritual Not like Luc had done

Luc had taken a knife to Anna’s hand, then cut his and ood and proper He hadn’t hesitated to protect her Whether his brother had known it would initiate the first stages of theritual, who could say? Surely what Cain had just done wasn’t enough for that level of psychic connection Yes, he still had free will in all of this, and more or less, so did Ta to cheer about It was dangerous

After all the trouble he’d gone through to protect himself from her, his instincts wanted the opposite He stood and wiped the sand off hi me, just because I can’t hex you"

"It’s not like that, Tam It was an accident"

She er deflated

"I think I just h he knew she wanted him, he expected a momentary flutter of revulsion to cross her face, but all he saas peace Then all at once it was gone, replaced by suspicion and a fear that seeards to hi?" He came closer and licked the last bit of blood off her lip Her blood was already inside hi ait counted as a true mark

"I’m not even sure I marked you I just think it’s possible," he clarified

"How can you not be sure?"

"The ritual is specific We don’t do it enough to have experioes But blood was " Why he was being so forthright, he couldn’t say Maybe he needed sos were still the sa had already shifted,he wanted to do right noasn’t bend her over a rock and fuck her--oh, they’d do that again, and ht nohat he wanted was to make love to her Even those words

He shook his hand as if his ring had shorted out, but he knew the truth It had nothing to do with the ring beyond being able to think ahim hary balls, he was looking at her differently

But hadn’t that been true fro? He remembered the first time he’d met her She’d showed up with the cavalry at Anna’s house like a raet to the wo between him and his brother, but she hadn’t come to him when he’d ordered her No amount of demon thrall could penetrate the walls she had up Even Anna’s resistance hadn’t i hiy balls From that moment he’d wanted to screw her brains out, possess her, e he’d met in more centuries than he could remerudge fuck had beco more

"Excusea hand in front of his face

He felt the fire light his eyes, and he growled "Shut yourof killing roentle than he’d intended

"Cain?"