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"Silence, lass"

Wide-eyed, she stared into his face, searching for some clue that would explain the icy hostility in his eyes

He forced histhe, lass"

His breath arm on her face, she could smell the potent stench of alcohol "So? So have you! And I thought you were in Uster!"

His beautiful lips contorted in a bitter sht I was in Uster, wife" His brogue rasped thickly, betraying the extent of his rage

"Well, I don’t see why you’re so angry with me! You’re the one who’s had ninegoodbye, and you’re the one ouldn’t--"

"What’s good for the gander is not necessarily good for the goose," he snarled He twined his hand in her hair and yanked her back sharply, baring the pale arch of her throat "Neither in spirit consu any sense, talking about far to have a reasonably sober conversation with hiently at the base of her neck where her pulse pounded erratically If she couldn’t handle this man sober, she certainly couldn’t handle hiue down her neck and across the upper curves of her breasts Herbirds took wing in her belly

"You wanton," he breathed against her flawless skin

Adrienne moaned softly, partly in pain from his words and partly in pleasure from his touch

"Faithless, cruel beauty, what did I do to deserve this?"

"What did I do--"

"No!" he thundered "No words I will suffer no honeyed lies from that sweet snake’s lair you call a mouth Aye, lass, you have the most cruel of poisons Better I had let the dart take you, or the arroas a fool to suffer one ain? she wondered But she knew she wasn’t because never in a dream had she been so aware of every inch of her own body, her traitorous body that begged to get closer to this angry man who dripped sex appeal, even in his fury

"Tell ive you that I don’t have! Tell er for in that ive you, then you can tell me if you still think he has nored her question coo You are my wife You will share my bed You will bear my children And most assuredly, by the tiain I told you the Hawk’s rules once Now I’ you for the last time Smithy and Adam are tords that you will never say to me If you do, I will punish you so innovatively and cruelly that you’ll wish you’d never been born"

The words were spoken with such white-hot yet carefully controlled anger that Adrienne didn’t even begin to question what punishht have in mind She knew instinctively that she never wanted to find out As she parted her lips to speak, Hawk rubbed his body against hers, intihs The words she’d planned to say were exhaled instead as a soft whoosh of air that tapered into a husky ainst him, to arch herself into his body with complete abandon She couldn’t even stand next to thisand cruel "Does he feel like this, lass? Does he have this ht feverishly, as her hipshiskiss

Adrienne felt his hand, raising her skirt and realized that in his current rage the Haas going to take her, right here in the dim and chill hallway Tipsy or not, this was not how Adrienne planned to part with her hard-kept virginity She wanted him, but not like this Never like this "Stop! Hahatever you think I’ve done--I haven’t!" she cried

He silenced her with his ry, and cruel She understood he was punishing her with his body, not ue and couldn’t prevent herself frorazed her neck with his teeth, then teased her hardened nipples through her gown Adrienne was so lost in pleasure that she didn’t realize what he was doing until it was too late