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"Darwin," he said

She looked like she was the one as being driven insane "What?"

"My name It&039;s Alec Darwin I do hope I haven&039;t ruined Darwin for you, as well"

She just looked at hiues

"How do you know me, Corazon?"

She blinked a couple of ti mentally "Darwin doesn&039;t sound like a German name You sound German Do you happen to know a Scottish vampire named Avery?"

"Sins of the saints, woman!" His temper snapped, in no little part due to her scent, which was driving him ith need "Answerbloodsucker!" she screa it to keep fro over

Alec felt no real fear in her, just a sense of wariness, and so from him No doubt it was her connection hoever had sent her to torment him "What have I ever done to you? I don&039;t even know you, and you act like I&039; toocircumstances have been explained"

"What did you do?" she asked hi "What did you do?"

"That&039;s what I asked, several times now, as a e that he was enjoying hi, but it was also sti so heavily over hi completely and utterly miserable

She sto him on the shoulder "You killed a woman!"

"So you said Which one?" He wondered whether if he kissed her right then, she would kiss him back, or slap hiain "Who knows? She was driving an oxcart"

"A what?" Those lips were htened into a line, as they were now He felt hirow harder as her scent wrapped itself around his would do the same

"Oxcart You know, a cartwith oxen And she ran over , and - "

"What the hell are you talking about? " he interrupted, distracted almost to madness by the hot need that swelled inside hier, part of it, yet separate He stood watching her as she spoke, her hands waving in the air, hera sweet siren lure

What was this strange sense of want? he wondered to hier for blood before, of course He&039;d felt the need for sex, as well He&039;d even indulged hiot to be too e sense of possession tied to her was all wrong He didn&039;t want her, not really He wanted her blood, nothing ain and he took her hand, the touch swa to hiht? Likeat least a couple of hundred years ago The ox lady was dressed in some sort of a brown skirt and leather bodice And there was a town, and so" Cora bit her lower lip, hiding her thoughts fro those thoughts You truly are the strangest woman I everyou killed that woaze dropped to that sweet mouth I have an even better question Who the hell are you?

"My name is Corazon Esmeralda Ferreira, and I aency I am thirty-two, have a sister who&039;s married to a vampire, and I saw you kill a woman"

"An ox woman, yes, I know What is the name of the Dark One?"

"Avery Scott Why did you attack her, Alec? Why did you bite her and bleed her dry?" She wrapped her ar away fro her eyes "Why did you take what you wanted from her, and just leave her body there on the road like she was nothing?"

"I don&039;t knohat it is you&039;re" He started to shake his head, then suddenly stopped From the depths of his ain the heat of the sun on him as he went to woo his Beloved, the scent of the newly turned earth, the sound of cattle lowing peacefully in the distant tohere Eleanor lived It was all idyllic, pastoraluntil he came across the woman who had just killed his salvation Slowly, he said, "A woman with an oxcart"

"You attacked her" Cora stared at hio away

"How do you knohat I did?"

"I had afor lack of a better word, a vision"

He said nothing, just closed his eyes, pain swa him He are that Cora hada little sound of frustration He acknowledged it, but the bone-deep anguish the rip

"She killed htly at all he had lost Sorrow, agony, and pain burned deep in hi out onto her, but he was unable to stop it She didn&039;t run fro her arht of her soul around hi him as if he were a hurt child "She killed her before we had Joined, leavingfrom me, "

Concern washed over hi all the dark places of his heart, and even though he knew she kept a little piece of herself back froiving hiave him coifts that he could have received He accepted it, acknowledging what it cost her, knowing she didn&039;t want to feel e they shared a bond, even if it was only one of blood

It was too much for hi around her to hold her body tightly to his, needing to feel her, needing to taste herjust needing her His mouth was hot on the flesh of her neck, of her shoulders, his e that she wanted hiood? No other woer

Va to rally a resistance in her own mind, but that faded almost instantly into awareness of him Bloodsucker

Tormentor Te one last atte I was

She bit gently on his ear, her lips caressing his jaw I can feel what she did to you I can feel the agony How can you live with so much pain inside you?

I don&039;t live Ito claiood I want you, mi corazon I want your heat I want the sweetness that resides within you

Go ahead , she told hiainst him in a way that he kneould spell disaster If she rubbed her belly against hi to disappoint them both Take it, Alec I want you to

He nipped at the skin of her shoulder, wantingin the world to drink from her, to join himself to her in the er chewing him up inside, a fresh torment added to an already miserable existence

You&039;ve lost tooher shoulder to her neck,to himself at the temptation the beat of her pulse posed I want it like I&039;ve never wanted anything, but I will not harain

She ainst his as she clutched his back, clearly offering herself to him

No, mi querida, I cannot allow you to do this

She tensed for a moment, and he knew she misinterpreted him Mi querida"my beloved"

Does that word bother you? he asked I did not mean it as you believe

No, it&039;s justno I don&039;tshe kept hidden from him, but the scent and feel and taste of her claimed his full attention Christ, hoant you You are so sth, I can&039;t resist you unless you ling with herself, admitted, I don&039;t want you to stop

Alec couldn&039;t keep froainst her lips in a way that he could feelinto the cloth of his jacket as his tongue traced her lower lip

"Cielito," he said, and she ainst hient little movements Mi cielito lindo, let ain

I&039;m hardly heaven, and definitely not beautiful, she told him, but parted her lips nonetheless He reveled in the taste of her as his tongue swept in, finding all her secrets, tasting her sweetness Her breasts strained against hi restlessly now, and when she touched his tongue with hers, he thought it was all over

I want you, she told hi she didn&039;t know she was projecting again I want you more than I&039;ve ever wanted another man I physically ache to have you inside ive you life, and none of that makes sense! You are a vampire, but oh, hoant you

Christ, wos like thathewhat she offered By the saints, I want you, too You&039;reme mad with need And if you touch me there just one ainst hi her hand boldly down his chest

That&039;s it! You are more than any man can bear You have no one but yourself to blaroan deep fro her delicious ass to the front of her jeans, tugging the zipper and sliding his hands over those wickedly wanton hips

I shouldn&039;t be doing this It&039;s wrong, so very wrong I should stop youOh Mother Mary, right there! She clutched his shoulders as his fingers slid beneath her underwear, pushing it out of the way, discovering all her warm secrets

It roaning when she reached for his belt buckle, her hands stroking his fly before releasing hibut I really don&039;t care at this od, you&039;re hot

Only for you , mi corazon His hips moved i tointo hisThis is wonderful This isoh, you really like this, don&039;t you?

His eyes rolled back in his head for a few seconds before he growled at her, deep from his chest

"And what of you, te her, finding areas with gentle brushes of his fingertips that he kneere driving heraround his in a way that almost pushed him beyond control Tell me what you want, mi cielito

More, she delazed with passion "Do you knohat you are asking? " His voice was rough with e his

"Yes I don&039;t care I just want you Right here Right now"

She found a rhythrit his teeth with the need to not end it all in her hands, his pleasure spiraling wildly out of control until he could bear it no longer He pressed her against the rock, lifting her hips to hi to hiroan of purest pleasure, one that was echoed by her as she shifted her hips, taking him even deeper

Please tell ainst hi And if you don&039;t stop thinking things like that, I&039; to last, period

Now! she yelled into his ainst her,but the need for coer that roared out of control when heraround hiers digging into his shoulders, her back arched against hiht

He couldn&039;t have stopped hi He bit the spot behind her ear that seeainst hih of rapture as he drank He shared the sensation with her, so she could feel the power of feeding, and that fulfillment joined with his arousal until he thrust deep within her, his climax so powerful, it left him drained of every ee