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Vash turned her head away from his mouth "Don’t"

"Trust me, I wish I didn’t" He settled cohs "You shouldn’t be afraid of liking ainst you, except when I need my cock in you You’l like that, too, once I show you how it’s real y going to be between us, without al the bul shit you pul ed last night"

He nuzzled his nose between her breasts, breathing in her luscious scent noweach other wil change our agreement You like that about me, too--that I keep my word"

Her hands lifted to his waist and he hummed his approval He was a lycan; he liked to be touched Petted

"You’re trying to piss h his earlobe

The sweet nip of pain swel ed his dick to the point of aching Provoked, he rocked his hips against hers, nudging against her cleft "Why would I do that?"

"You k-knohy" Her slender arms wrapped around him "I knohy"

Because a pissed-off Vashti he could deal with It was the newly discovered, tor and fearless

To see such afear offended hi--or so a soft growl of pleasure "Thank you for irritating me"

"Actions speak louder than words Touch me, Vashti"

"Where?"

"Everywhere" The way he needed her to but wouldn’t explain, not after the rough night they’d had He could want her and like her, but needing her was too much Didn’t make any damn sense But then he wasn’t at his best now In some ways, perhaps, the violent upheaval in his life had left him as raw as she was

She moaned when he plumped her tit in his hand, then hissed as his htly over her hardening nipple

He also liked to lick

"M her lushness into his working lips "You’re a breast man"

He was a Vash man, but kept that to hi in the cherry-sweet scent of her that drove hiers into his hair and kneading his scalp, holding hiroan A shudder racked his frame

"Can you be so easy to pleasure, lycan?" she asked softly

"Why don’t you try and see what happens?"

CHAPTER 8

"Father"

Syre glanced over at his son standing in the doorway and took one last, deep drink from the wrist at hisinto the dazed blue eyes of the sexy brunette who’d been feeding hio lie down for an hour or two"

She blinked, co to a ful er awareness Her mouth curved as she focused on him, completely unaware that she’d just donated a pint of blood to his diet "Co forward to it Kel y was hot to get fucked, having co in as et her hands on He’d careful y cultivated Raceport to beco the adventurous transients to fuel the proliferation of cabals and covens in the area The abundance of sexual partners was a side benefit he hadn’t considered in advance, but was certainly appreciative of now

Sex was one of the few activities in his life that , she pushed to her feet and tossed her long hair over her shoulder Her s were exposed by super-short cutoff jeans Her slender arms were covered in sleeves of tattoos, and her navel was pierced with a tiny silver ring Syre enjoyed the view despite its inability to truly inspire him He preferred a different sort of feo realized what abut physical pleasure, which eventual y turned into enore what suited hi oh that was very rarely one and the same

"The sooner you leave, Kel y," Torque said drily, "the sooner he’l join you"

She turned, realizing they weren’t alone in his suite after alFor a aze swept over Torque, war with interest

The reseht as to be almost nonexistent Like his twin, Shadoe, Torque had taken after their mother in his facial features He was shorter than Syre by half a foot, lean in the waist and hips but thick with hs, ar directions, the thick Asian locks dyed a shocking green at the tips It was a style that suited both his sloe eyes and his sharp-edged lifestyle Torqueers of elder va her lips, Kel y offered, "Why don’t you join us, too?"

Torque’s face stayed hard, his heart too freshly shattered by the loss of hispussy with Syre is a bit too incestuous for lanced at Syre, who appeared to be about ten years older than Torque’s ht her gaze and murmured, "Go"

The co the room with a drea deeper into the rooback

"How are you?"

"You keep askingevasive" He knew his son’s pain, had experienced it hio And Torque was a naphil, one of the nephalim children he and the other Fal en had created with their s, part angel and part mortal Unlike the Fal en or minions, they had souls They felt joy and pain rief was a shadohat his beloved son felt

"I’m terrible," Torque said bluntly "The Alpha told Vashti the truth: there was anticoagulant in the blood we found at the site of Nikki’s abduction, which makes it possible he was set up to take the bla for whoever took her froeance hot and fierce in his veins It was the overriding emotion in his life of late, as his careful y constructed world crumbled around hihtered Every single el so his or her tracks Whose side are they are on? They steal Lindsay from Adrian and deliver her into my hands, then vanquish the vampires who saw to her delivery"

"Who the fuck knows?" Torque’s booted foot rapped out a frustrated staccato on the hardwood floor "Even if it is an angel, there’s no guarantee it was a Sentinel It could be a winged class of deels’ Point, for al we know"

"Who else would have access to stored lycan blood but a Sentinel?" Adrian’s cryogenic storage facilities el guarded by Sentinels Not even the lycans the there’s only one individual responsible for both Nikki and Lindsay’s abductions"