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My lips curved up "You are most definitely naked"

"That’s the point!" she shouted, and rin spread "What? Do rolly-pollys not have basic manners or any personal boundaries?"

"Apollyon," I corrected absently "And like I said, I’ood with boundaries"

"Whatever" Her voice pitched high

A chuckle rolled out of et out of here before…before I did what? Stripped off my clothes and joined her? Parts of me really liked that idea, but that wouldn’t be sirl I had picked up for a few hours

Forcing myself to move, I turned, but her voice stopped me "Seth?" she called, and I looked overher bottoroan She had no idea "Your eyes…they’re kind of glowing"

"They do that sometimes"

She looked like she wanted to ask another question, but seemed to reet out of the roo the virtually useless doorknob, I stepped out and shut the door behind roaned

I was as hard as I was the first tiht Ihere?

AdjustingI walked over to where I’d left the beer and grabbed the bottle Taking a long drink, I wondered how I’d ended up in this place, at this very moment, with a naked chick a few feet from me, and I wasn’t in there with her

My life was co out loud, I dropped back in the chair and kicked my feet up on the bed as I rested the bottle in my lap That shit was funny Since the day I’d been born, I hadn’t had an ounce of control over roomed to be an Apollyon, which meant I was trained like any other Sentinel

Truth was, if Apollo released me tomorrow from the deal I’d made and told me I had control of my life, I wouldn’t knohat to do with it Hell I didn’t knoho I really was anymore

The Elixir, a special brew that had been used to sedate halfs ent into servitude, was gone now So were a lot of the rules, but I hadn’t been around the Covenants or in the coed I doubted they’d changed very lanced over at the bathrooh to be a prune by the time she climbed out What a sha about all that pretty skin

And I’d seen a decent aht she was plain before? Plain and pretty? I was reevaluating that observation when the bathrooed

Oh for the love of the gods hiding in Oly a robe Not even one of those awful terrycloth, unisex robes a lot of hotels had That wasn’t how this hotel rolled She’d found a thin, silk one that had been hanging on the bathrooht in a way that drew attention to her se and daht below her navel, above the belt, and in the valley between her breasts She sucked at toweling off Not that I was coaze moved to her breasts Her nipples were clearly visible, pressing against the thin material