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If I’d known all of this beforeVictor and Clark, I’d have killed the to watch so like that, especially while I could do nothing to stop it So like that would stay with you forever

"I tried to run away froain now "He’d told me that if I ever tried it he’d kill one human every day until I was returned to hiht teeks later by a Pagori who had a siift to Saleain I was back with Victor and at the other side of the room were fourteen dead huain after that At least not until Sebastian showed up I knew Victor would be too busy followinghu a true idea of just why it was so important to her to be her own person She had basically spent the past three years as a hostage, sex slave and assassin I adht now A lot of people would have tried to end their own existence rather than live that kind of life "That’s what you et their pasts"

She nodded "In a nutshell, Bryce died because he loved est insult to him and his e and seee of jealousy at the idea

"I’ether forever Sometimes people love each other for a little while But I did love hiot him"

"Hey, the blame doesn’t lie with you You have to know that"

"Do you knohat’s the saddest part of it all? Bryce hadn’t wanted to go to the club that night thatVictor I’d been all packed ready to move into a new flat in the other end of London the next o to that club one last tis I ht still be alive -"

"Or you could havestill happen" I advanced toward her, but not atte to penetrate that do stupid shit like that They’re the kind of things that Victor ht now, listening to this and laughing about it This would be exactly what he wants"

She sot what he wanted; he said the ‘experience’ should teach ain It did I’ve never wanted anything like that since It hurts to love soain watch someone I loved die"

I couldn’t watch her in pain anyht She didn’t resist like I’d thought she ainst my chest, she had tucked her head under ood just to have your ar just as much comfort from this as she was

I’d never seen Sah, there was still an air of strength about her She was the last person I knoould need protecting, but she ht out this protective side of htly kissed her hair and squeezed her even tighter

The moment was shattered by the heavy knock on her apartreat Had I ever wanted to sht now? I loosened hed as she took a single step backwards "I know he ht now"

If she had any clue as to how happy I was to hear her say that she’d laugh her ass off "Then don’t answer He’ll get the idea" I held her tight again And again, there was no resistance fronored hiing," she said after a minute or so of silence

I chuckled "Thanks, I can’t say I’ve had "

"You seeun stroking her hair In my defence, it’s so soft and beautiful Like her "Want me to stop?" She shook her head So I didn’t stop I co the silky feel of it againstBut then she squirht she was about to free herself I rong In fact, she was sliding her hands upfor the collar of my shirt One button open Another button open And then there was the unbelievable feeling of her lips on h to make me hitch in a breath She kissed the spot beneath the hollow of an to work up the coluave it a little lick and exhaled heavily over the wet spot before scraping her teeth over it, causing ain My downstairs department rose to attention

I’m not much of a person for ethics andstruckwhether I wanted this now It wasn’t sofor right now, and I didn’t want us sleeping together to be about that Voicing this vieever, was proving to be a struggle seen as I was sort of caught up in the sensation of her lips and tongue and teeth on ainst me Not helpful

As such, all that came out was: "Sam, you have to stop" I can’t say that I sounded all that convincing, especially seen as I was clutching her close to ainst rinded against ain, and a low moan escaped me

Her lips worked their way aroundout each ti There wasn’t one part of it that she didn’t kiss Christ, I had to‘comfort sex it is’