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"Hurry! She'll return any moment, and she'll have others with her Perhaps the entire army"

Zane watched as Nola tried and failed to jerk the head of his chains from the iron pole they were attached to, a pole that was anchored deep in the earth As before, her fingers h the object

His shock had yet to diht to help him After her announcement, his captor had stor to the Amazon queen Nola wanted hiized to hi her voice It had been desire Then she'd climbed on top of him without hesitation, had moaned when he'd arched into her He hadn't been able to feel her, but oh, just the thought of doing so was enough for hiht her?" he demanded "You cannot hurt her, and she cannot hurt you"

"I didn't want to fight her I wanted ti there?" She peered down at hi wildly around her delicate face There was the soldier he knew "Fight free!"

"You will come with me? If I escape?"

"If I can, yes I want that ain, there was no hesitation There was even a flicker of hope in her nificent eyes She truly did not hate him

What had brought about this change in her? Doesn'the'd craved these many ether - was now being offered to hier did he feel cursed Never had he been so blessed

He couldn't feel her? So what Being with her was more important

He was suddenly fueled with a fervor he had never experienced before, not even when he'd been whoring for the demon queen, desperate to save Cassandra He wanted this Would have this Just assoon ashe brokefree For what seemed an eternity, he pulled hard at his wrists and ankles, straining so forcefully his bones eventually gave way

Out came both his ankles; out came both his wrists The pain of it nearly bowled his He didn't care He was free at last

"I hear therab hih his body "Dae that she had tried to touch him caused him to shiver rather than shudder From the very first, it had been that way Others he ran from Others he abhorred Her, he only yearned for more of Why?

"This way" She raced to the far end of the tent "Raise the flap"

He lu constantly, and did as coony, black winking over his vision, sto to heave Va, the few sips he'd had earlier already used up

Outside, light poured fro and stinging his now-sensitive skin andhis eyes water This kind of reaction had only happened once before On that cursed island of the gods The reave hi land Ahout So at weapons; so animal hides