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Without his wilHis beast had bypassed his control for the first tiling through the throes of a nightmare

And he’d been unable to shift back until the beast was certain she was al right He’d paced the roo the cracks around the door and in the corners, growling because there was no other outlet for his helpless fury but to search and find nothing to kilOnce he’d been assured that nothing in the locked room posed a threat to her, he’d padded over to the bed He had nuzzled against the crown of her head and licked away her tears She’d cal back into a fitful sleep Only then had he been capable of shifting back

Everyone rong about him--he was no Alpha or he would never have shifted without conscious thought Which meant they needed to find one as Quickly

In the meantime, he was crazily attuned to Vashti To the extreas his control along with his goddanize hi

What the fuck was the matter with him?

He was afraid he knew Those endless moments when he’d been bound and captured beneath her, helpless to stop her as she took his blood and his semen into her mouth, riveted by the burn of fury and ferocious desire as she sheathed his aching cock in her tight, hot depths…they’d shifted him on the inside And when he had taken over and she’d shattered beneath him, he had accepted the surrender of such a powerful and lethal woratitude

Soainst the door, and Elijah yanked it open, scowling at the interruption of Vashti’s rest

"What do you want?" he snapped at Saleive a shit that he was bare-assed naked

Neither did the vamp

"Have you seen Vashti?" Salem barked back Then his nose twitched as he scented the air His eyes widened as he cohly Elijah had seen her

"Yeah Go away"

"Where’d she go?"

"She’s sleeping Come back later" Elijah backed up and shut the door

Saleainst the ?"

"You know Eyes closed Lack of consciousness Sound fa "Move aside, lycan"

Bored with the conversation and stil aggravated by Vash’s nightmare, Elijah stepped out to the hal way and shut the door careful y behind him

Then he shoved the vampire across the hal and into the opposite doorhich Saleh to slide into the foot of a heavily occupied bed Elijah got a glih bare limbs and arched necks to make up at least four bodies

Salem was up and in Elijah’s face in a split-second "You’re pissingVash doesn’t sleep"

"She does when she’s tired"

A, Salem’s voice lowered ominously "What did you do to her?"

"Real y?" Elijah asked drily "That’s none of your dahed at that, a sound with little humor in it He’d been chained and assaulted, and the vamp orried about Vash "She can take of herself"

Salem stared him down Elijah yawned

"She hasn’t slept in decades," the vaht explain why she’s so bitchy" Elijah’s voice changed, lowered "But then bitchy is preferable to broken"

The vahtened

"What happened to her, Salem?"

"Ask her yourself, lycan" Sale cruelty "Until she tel s you that, you’ve got nothing but sex with her You’re just a dick with sta his fist in the va face when Salem turned and stepped back into the rooround and popping it into the frame with himself inside

It took Elijah a few minutes and several deep breaths to rein in his volatile h to return to the room he shared with Vash He pushed the door open slowly and just wide enough for him to slide in What he saw inside froze hie of the mattress, his shirt in her fisted hands and pressed to her nose She jerked guiltily when he ca she shouldn’t Her hands dropped into her lap, baring her gorgeous tits

She stood in an agitated rush "What ti"

"It’s a little after seven" He didn’t need a watch to tel him that His circadian rhythm was instinctively set by the moon, wherever in the world he was, courtesy of the olf blood in his lineage He approached her cautiously, as if nearing a skittish animal