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Scars fro up still marred his perfect skin, but only a bit And then I found what I was looking for The point of entry for the 50-caliber bullet that had torn through his body only days earlier What would have ripped a norh his rib cage and punctured a lung, exiting out his back But all that reht was a small scrape on his skin I pushed his shirt down his arms farther and walked around to check his back The scrape was better, but he healed even faster than I did

"That’s not pity I feel, is it?" he asked, his voice suddenly hard

I walked around to face him and crossed est it"

"You can’t stop h, Reyes"

"Would you care to test that theory?"

"Yes" I raised my chin "I would" I put ainstto me How can I not empathize with you for what you’ve endured?"

The heat in the rooer "Stop"

I shook ony every time I think about what happened to you, and that’s not soe just because itheat that burst froot the better of hiony is?" he asked, his voice a husky shell, fragile, in danger of cruulfed hi across s I wrapped an arm around his waist, his hands still behind his back, his expression murderous Then I reached up and touched his face "If it h, then yes If it would bringhow you think, how I can best help you, then a thousand tiaot it"

His arms were free at once and around me He moved in a different time, a different reality I wasn’t prepared One second ere standing in the ainst a wall, his body hard against ony, the only kind he brought was the anguish of longing for more His s apart His hand twisted into ht of Danger and Will

Thentouch pushed inside asped and took hold of his wrist as that fanited in the core ofers deeper and heard a growl a round This was not the sensual being I had come to know This was not an act of love but of punished to do was drive h he wanted to hurt , but that simply wouldn’t happen I felt his desire er led him, so did his raw sexual appetite, and in that area ere a perfect match

He lay on top of me with a hand around my throat to hold ed both rip, then pulled his mouth down to mine the moment he entered me And a jolt of pleasure bucked inside me with his entrance I breathed in the air he breathed out I tasted hiernails into his back when he pushed too hard too fast But he didn’t stop This wasn’t about pleasure This was about reprisal Revenge His rew just as hard as his fking had becoh me as his thrust went deeper He had clamped er and all his indignation, he did not hurttendrils of ecstasy spread throughout ry and carnivorous

But was he solely punishingthe act as well? I wrappedlabored, his bodyinto a marble-like hardness, and I did the unthinkable I whispered into his ear the last thing he would ever want to hear But I had to knohere he was at

"Is this what he did to you?"

He hesitated Faltered And ht That prize at the top Butether

There was a wall above ainst it, our bodies still entwined and locked together His ht my ear "You would still feel pity for me?" He nipped at my earlobe The small amount of pain caused a sharp spike of arousal "I am a monster, Dutch A demon Unworthy of you"

I still had my arms wrapped around his head "I don’t pity you, htened "I have syh And you are not a s I have – " I put one hand on a steely buttock and led him deeper He hissed in a breath Pressed harder "-- then I accept"

My body won The heat swirling and bubbling inside o, and Reyes was just the one to set it free