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"A co panic in her sto a joystick you like to ride when the mood strikes you"

"Whatever" Vash tried to refocus after feeling Elijah’s "joystick" flex inside her when referenced to "You’re one to talk I know you’re just into rant you exclusive and convenient access to what I’ve got in return for the same from you"

"That’s it?" she asked suspiciously Exclusivity and convenience tied in a lot of different things, she knew, but she stil had to ask

His gaze was steady, al human, and infinitely patient "What h her hair "I can’t live with the cold shoulder Made me crazy You were such an ass yesterday"

"I was the ass?"

She sighed and knew she had to lay it al out there or risk losing hiht be infatuated, but the"I want you Not just for the sex, but for you I respect you I respect how you are with your people But that’s exactly why I can’t keep you And I’ain"

He reached up with both hands and brushed her hair back fro about my responsibilities as an Alpha"

"Tel me you’re not," she shot back "And if you aren’t, you should be"

"At this point, I’ mistake This makes twice now I’ve lost it over you"

Vash frowned "When was the other time?"

"Doesn’t matter when It happened" His firan the moment I first saw you It won’t end until you ad That’s what the beast wants and what I want it to have As for the rateful for your advice and that you’ve always been wil ing to share it withwith you You’re the perfect amount of crazy for me There’s never a dulinside her cracking open at what he was saying Her body tightened around hirowled softly "I could co held by you Even if I go on as the Alpha, I couldn’t pretend to take on aintimate with another woman repulses me"

Her eyes closed as relief and tenderness flooded her "There was only Char Then you I want this to work I want to ether, working together, staying together None of which is anyone else’s business We just have to talk to each other and make each other a priority"

"There isn’t a lycan alive who doesn’t want to kilyou sometimes"

"And there are very few vaet aith it Every relationship has its problems and hostile in-laws"

"Ha! You’re a riot"

"And I’ant" He nipped her lower lip between even, white teeth "You’re e led deliciously; the flavor of hiue "You knehat you were doing to ht You kneould break me down to lose you, that I wouldn’t be able to take it"

"I hoped," he corrected "And kickeda line I wasn’t sure you’d cross When I offered led you You tore into a hotel rooe, but you wouldn’t take that one step I needed you to take I started to think there was no way to have you the way I need you Then you ca you I’d take whatever I could get"

"I was too da me" Her vision blurred and she turned her head "You shut

It makes me crazy Crazier"

He exhaled and leaned into her "You’re da by the truth, she said, "And you’re rol ing over and exposing your bel y without ht, puppy"

"You’ve been here before, with Charron Of course you’d be wary of putting yourself out there again andyourself vulnerable This is new to ine not having it Not having you"

Vash pressed her pal heart "Has it occurred to you that Iyou care so you won’t be able to kil me?"

He covered her hand with his "What kind of asshole do you take me for? Think I could nail you six ways froo before ent at each other in the warehouse Micah’s dead What you did to hi But I can’t say I would’ve acted differently If I kil you on his behalf, I’d just be doing exactly what you did to hi either of them back, but would destroy both of us"