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Dmitri rubbed his hands down her ar else,” she continued, sinking into his heat, “was about power, about control” When that failed to crush her, they’d a her screaand then she touched

It was near is now, her breath jerky, her blood pu in erratic bursts But she said the words, because the shaer “She as deep within her, taken the last shred of defiant pride

Dht on her arid with control, “who can be aroused against their will”

Shuddering, she turned into his eainst his chest Except for Ash’s quick hugs, it was the first time she’d allowed anyone to hold her since the abduction, the first time she’d been able to bear it Maybe it was because her hu she had no room for fearand maybe it was because he understood in a way no one else ever would

“I hate her, D inside of her, this hatred “More than anyone else”

D his head to whisper a dark promise in her ear “I can do to her what she did to you” Black satin around her senses “It would be nothing to break her until she was a whi shell”

Her response was immediate—and violent “No You don’t touch the bitch” Then, perhaps because she was half mad, she added, “You do and I swear I’ll shoot off both your hands at the wrists” He was hers, and she didn’t care if that was the obsession speaking, didn’t care that she’d told herself not to ainst her chest Dh the chopper would’ve been faster—they decided the extra time would allow her to calrip on her eer blind to the stupidity of rash behavior on her part in the upco down the last stretch of road—one devoid of streetlights—that her phone rang again This tiht?”

“You ask that after you sicced Dh “Not my fault you have friends in scary places”

“I’ to be an ass about it “Thanks”

He tried to hide his relief, but she heard it nonetheless “Yeah, well, now you owe me two dinners” A beep “Hold on” Then, “Jewel Wan is on the ot access to the ca out of Dodge”

“Guards?”

“Two in the front car, tith her, from what I can see Visuals aren’t that clear, so there could beup, she relayed the information to Dmitri “Is this the only road out of the Wan estate?”

His ansas a chilling shts flash in the darkness before disappearing as the onco vehicle curved around a corner A second flash ca as Dmitri parked the rental in a way that blocked the road, slid out in silence as he did the same