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They would travel to Miaet to the Council Gathering in South America While they could have flown the entire distance, vampires hated to fly He didn&039;t know if it was the sie coffin, or the fact they were sepa- rated froraht hours, so the limo with its darkened rear s had been pulled up to the door and Lyssa had ducked into it, using a cape to go fro them leave He&039;d chased them down the drive but re- luctantly obeyed Lyssa&039;s coate closed As they pulled out, she turned and watched the dog out the back , laying her hand on the glass as if she were touching his furry face and the faces of the other siblings who came to join him Jacob reached out and covered her other hand with his, squeezing with reassurance In truth though, her sudden apprehension wor- ried him We&039;ve prepared as ht She gave him that absent smile that told hi about, not having ever been to a Council Gathering

He couldn&039;t argue with her on that, of course They&039;d be spending three days a over two hundred of the ion Masters h there were others, like Lord Brian, invited because of their status The political positioning and volleys would be fierce A a host of other vital issues, she had to convince the Council to grant perh theany suspicions about her health With such sohts on her shoulders, it didn&039;t see that could draw her ed in his knapsack and withdrew a small box "Travel chess or 101 Gaible But he did win another sht hours, waking late afternoon They kept the screen between driver and passengers open and conversed as any travelers would With her dry wit, Lyssa even got Mr Ingraic foibles of his son They lis- tened to him talk proudly about how John had beco friends in the school he&039;d transferred to when hea business tax crisis in his house with Whiskers&039; propensity for shredding anything paper Then he and Jacob exchanged ideas on ho a work- shop at his small house At dark Lyssa had thees She gave Jacob a hundred-dollar bill to leave tucked under the chicken ith a note of thanks When they passed a group of bikers that included a large wo and a leather fringe jacket, Jacob reminded Lyssa she still hadn&039;t allowed hilance and a death threat that h Jacob reflected there was sohith only the lights of other late-travelingacross the paleness of her face, outlining the curves of her body and then plunging her into darkness again

She didn&039;t sayto prefer to listen to them talk Thea co she would speak if she desired to do so At length she curled up on the seat again, pillowing her head on Jacob&039;s thigh When she tucked her fingers beneath the coluers on her hip It had been two and a half weeks since her annual kill Her strength and vitality seemed to have improved with no further episodes, but in the last week he&039;d noticed her doing this, not only sleeping during daylight hours but taking a one- or two-hour nap in the middle of her "day " She&039;d explained she wanted tohours of the Council, but he knew the real reason She was anticipating weak- ening again Like a ter to seek treatment so that the treatment was not as effective, the annual kill and third mark were not likely to carry her as far as they would have if she&039;d acquired theo instead of a handful of weeks He should have listened to Thomas, coed, Jacob And the an- nual kill has helped a great deal I aiven ht still haunted hiainst his hold, his eyes white When he real- ized he had no chance of escape, the fear of death was in his eyes With his prescience, Jacob could feel every nuance and change in the man&039;s emotions like a roar in his head The desire to live was the strongest of man&039;s emotions, a pried It htHiht Had the internal screa around him been louder than the outer din of an arlad not to have that one to church, lit a candle for Ronin, asked his forgiveness and then put it aside to take care of his lady There&039;d been tooon her behalf now, tooup for her

She needed his focus, and she&039;d have it Ti else As he raised his eyes to the aze and knew that the driver was as cognizant as he was of the significance of her nap "You know, " Elijah said after a bit, "ure it, because they don&039;t de- serve that They just don&039;t deserve it " That was nothing but the sira of a creature of darkness He could hardly argue with that The menher nap undisturbed When she woke, she fished about and found one of the oranges As she began to peel it, she kept her bare feet tucked under Jacob&039;s thigh, her gaze considering hian a discussion with Jacob on which nailer was best for laying a hardwood floor He answered, keeping his eyes on her, sensing the shift in her e, her knuckles getting rown fruit Her hair was in a twist over one shoulder, the edge brushing the top of her thigh, outlined by the way her skirt lay upon it Her toes curled, pressing into his thighhis hand to her an- kle, he stroked the delicate bones there When she raised a slice, she leaned forward, apparently wanting to feed hirew moist with his saliva as well as the juice of the fruit He couldn&039;t resist a nip that caught a finger As he drew it deep in his lowed like a cat&039;s at hiram, why does it make a difference what kind of nailer you use to put down hardwood floors?" She said it with a smile in her voice, but she had an entirely different expression as she extended the next slice of orange to Jacob Take it froain Did you know some vampires don&039;t allow their servants to eat or drink except from their Master or Mistress&039;s hand? Ever To underscore their bond

He looood at projecting washed over hiush of warers Do you think I need a re you dependent on my will He considered that She&039;d worked one foot even deeper beneath his thigh, and the movement of her toes teased the flat base of his testicles constricted in his jeans It&039;s a long trip,do you think you can stay hard for h herOffered another slice This time after he took it, he captured her wrist in his hand, held her there They stared at each other in the darkness Slowly, heher nails curve in, the points pressing against his eyelid and the soft, vulnerable tear duct as he suckled her pulse, let his thuhly sensitive nerve endings he kneere there He&039;d tried not toprox- imity to her was ether after Carl, she&039;d been withdrawn The intensity of that night had been far over the top of what he&039;d ever been with a woround for his lady as well When they next caether it would be there, this different level between them, and she apparently hadn&039;t been ready to face that She&039;d kept hi of her day-to-day affairs That level of activity was all that kept the hunger for her at bay He&039;d had the overwhele it in the quiet darkness of his own room, usually in a half sleep when his handof her body, her touch Oddly, it orse when he ay from home She&039;d sent him on a couple of out-of-town trips, for he was now accepted as her agent, her assistant to the highest level, and not just to the perception of her va her consultation onhis voice to beco beneath his hand, he wouldn&039;t deny the savage need anymore unless she refused him Fortunately, he sensed she was ready to embrace it as well, whatever forabond Did youAssuage often? My mind is open to you, my lady You know all He felt her there like her hair or lips, brushing hiht, pro- vocative touches You didn&039;t No, he hadn&039;t He&039;d pulled his hand away from himself, chosen a cold shohen he&039;d needed it You seem surprised You&039;ve never demonstrated suchA sub for your Mistress&039;s permission It was that But it wasthe wet, hot silk of your pussy, h hand a woeful substitute "I do not find your hand that way at all " Lifting it, she pressed her face into his touch Her left eye,most of her nose and half her lips disappeared behind the cover of his palertips He noticed then the screen was up, likely raised by a coraht lands, it will be daylight and I&039;ll sleep on the plane But e rise at sunset, I have toWithout servants present " She cocked her head "The Council and several other high-ranking vaht to discuss issues of more confidential concern to our kind It&039;s a courtesy, s we&039;ll hear over the next three days and those things on&039;t, but will ht s, if you will " "I reers teasing under the heaze held his steadily, but he noted her lips parted at the provocative touch

"When you go to our rooet us settled, " she said, her voice throaty, "you willAssuage your need I want to see you inyourself to release " Enough was enough He was only huhter in his ed her across the seat to hi down on her h he didn&039;t know if it was his psychic intuition, their mind link or just the bond between the two of theain, planted by Thomas He didn&039;t know if it was true, but he couldn&039;t deny it see his head, he aze "My lady" "Sssh Give me what I need, Jacob It is just us here Soon I shall have to be very different, very cold I&039;ll have to re to me in ways that are not comfortable to you It is our way But for now, take my woman&039;s heart Hold it for ain after this is all over " Dropping his hand to her waist, he curled his fingers under her shirt, felt the soft skin stretched over the s up to the satin of her bra cups, he brushed them with his thumbs When he took the shirt over her head, he watched the way her clipped-back hair forh the neckline and then fell back to her shoulder, down her now e hands, the tan skin against the pale unblemished, he put his lips on the top of one curve, his jaw brushing her Her breath held, her teeth biting down on her lips as a distracted sers rested on his shoulders For once they didn&039;t dig in, just held as if she were seeking an emo- tional anchor

Her skin was so sensitized that if he teased one sue and lip, he knew her body would begin to quiver, like ripples in a lake that expanded and be- came a wake on a shore from that one minute disturbance She kne to draw an extraordinary level of sensual enjoy- ood student He could bring her to climax with this one contact because of how deeply she could focus on it

But that wasn&039;t what she needed now He put his hand between them, freed hi it up to her hips so he could slide his finger under the band of the silk panties she wore, move the crotch aside and test her wet- ness She was slick and waruided her onto hith with a noise between an animal sound of acceptance and a htened on him, inch by torturous inch When he had her fully seated, he put his arainst him, her head down to his shoulder Her arms shifted to wrap around his shoulders, al carried hoan to rock, slow, sliding strokes up inside her Wrapping a cohtly around their bodies, a lullaby of searing sensation Her hips , lowering He nuzzled her neck as shefriction across the top of her left breast, eliciting a soft, shuddering sigh He&039;d never wanted anything to go on forever so ht in the quiet solitude of avehicles The soft sound of In- grah the back speak- ers Jacob&039;s release built with hers on every stroke as they moved in perfect harmony on a star-kissed sea of their oorld It was a sweet ride, holding her body close, feeling her rip there alternately tightening and stroking He was sure Mr Ingra back here Somehow, despite the fact he&039;d never formally taken Lyssa&039;s offer of a job, Elijah had become part of the journey they were on, a journey Jacob was all too aware had an end Mr In- gram knew it, too, and maybe that hy he ith them still Sometimes, despite all the reasons a man&039;s mind told him he needed to avoid a situation with a woer, this was the course that called to him

"Jacob " A soft h, down slow, stroking her with his full length, despite the fact he kneas going to explode in no time from such exquisite slick torture She liked to squeeze, liked to feel the ridge of hih her an to jerk in their hold on hi, ready He held her to his pace and she let hih her strain, acknowledging the wonder of it He wasn&039;t even sure if he was in the lead or if they were in fact on a tide that was inexorably, rhyth them both toward their destination A cry broke froain, until her whole body was quivering, rocketing with the intensity of the clian to co his face in her neck, pressing his lips there as he surged strong and hard into her pussy, piercing her deep, giving her a taste of pain with the vibrating pleasure of her aftershocks Her teeth scored his ear, responding He sh hi his lady never told him false At the nextwould be different She&039;d given him this to remember

And just as she&039;d asked, he had her heart in his safekeep- ing, beating in his own chest He was sure of it

Jacob stretched his legs after they deplaned fro strip They were soentina, but he knew little else about the location of the Vahold where they&039;d hold the annual Va was secluded, another hour&039;s travel by off-road vehicle Lyssa had said the private resort getaas located on the coast and backed by the lush, teion She&039;d explained that the resort belonged to Lord Mason, a vam- pire Jacob kneas one of the older ones at over six hundred He was rarely seen, choosing to live in seclusion in the Saudi desert

However, he loaned the property to the Va no desire of his own to visit it, but equally having no desire to relinquish it Mason and Lyssa had a history Jacob had seen at least one cor- respondence froh he hadn&039;t been privy to the contents, he knew it had soive hi of Mason Years ago, Lyssa had wanted Mason to be more involved in the Council formation, but Mason apparently was not a joiner He wanted nothing more than seclusion and turned away from the notion of "civilized" va a bit betrayed by the friend she&039;d hoped she could count on Since that had been so long ago, she&039;d obviously gotten past it enough to exchange correspondence with hiain, but that was all Jacob had tried not to be selfishly glad of that Tho more between the two of theht have been Ma- son instead of Rex that Lyssa would have chosen for e You don&039;t courthe needed to be steady and balanced as they stepped out onto the tarmac to meet a full complement of Council members For the next three days he would be surrounded by creatures that saw hi, a tool For his lady&039;s benefit, he would have to perfor his lady, that performance could take many forms And most of them would make him ner vous as hell if he dwelled on the possibilities at all Humans were expected to satiate vampire desires as sexual sub- , that aspect of a servant&039;s role was turned to high volume Until now, except for the dinner with Lord Tara, Lady Richard and Lord Brian,h not all--of his submission to his lady had been private He suspected that would not be the case here While he didn&039;t agree entirely with Debra&039;s assessht

His lady loved hi unique to a vampire-human rela- tionship She also viewed hi his obedi- ence While she trembled under his touch, she wouldn&039;t hesitate to physically hurt him if he defied her to the point of blatant disrespect And he understood that Accepted it in a way that wouldn&039;t make sense to Gideon or anyone else Perhaps it only made sense to some- one who had the mind-set to be a human servant Now he stood at her back, a deferential few feet behind while she exchanged greetings Aof hands, a brush of the lips across the cheek A contingent of hu as well From their appearance, he knew these were not the human servants attached to these Council va were not of equal rank Therefore those of the lower ranks ht have their servants pressed into all sorts of duties during the Gathering--cleaning, waitstaff, bellhop ser vices While he and Lyssa had discussed that, she had neglected to tell hiroup offor direction had ex- tremely attractive bodies, noticeable because they wore little on them Their individuality was denied thes, but noFrom the stretched concave curve in that area, it appeared they wore ball gags beneath so speech was not possible They could only re- ceive and follow orders Each wore a enitals were visible but caged by a closely fitted wireelse Itvauarded by the masks He was sure it was not for their benefit, but a practical con- sideration for their Master or Mistress, so no one could identify their servant and try to manipulate them for political benefit He would not be commandeered for any services of which his lady did not approve She&039;d also made it clear he was to follow only her direc- tion and to never, ever let his guard down once they were off the plane As two of the hue of another va else

The ed wires that pressed the engorged shafts against their bellies The women&039;s eyes ide and flared, their bodies obviously being kept in a stimulated state, the wires over their pussies ith their arousal As they turned, bent, he saw the chastity belts were fitted with dildos inserted into all available openings, depending on gender It was the type of disco them to inhale the scent of human arousal to stoke their own desires He pulled his attention away froh to the internal stratus of vampire society not to ex- pect an introduction, he nevertheless was conscious of a penetrating assessreeted his lady They&039;d gone over each nizing each one He&039;d also gotten ih his many communications with their servants over the past uage, the shift of eyes, the level of deference exhibited and his lady&039;s reaction to each The last one who stepped foras Belizar, the head of the Council and obviously of Russian Cossack stock With steel gray eyes and swept-back hair streaked with silver, he had an aura that said he had no proble the body parts of anyone who crossed hiaze swept over Jacob, then again to Lyssa as he stepped back but retained her hand "Lady Lyssa, you do us great honor by being here I&039;rief to take another servant May it please you one day to feel the sarip he had on her hand, there was no doubt who Beli- zar felt that should be And of course an allegiance between the head of the Vampire Council and the last Far Eastern vaical sense to everyone present No one would think it an inappropriate implication No one except Jacob, who knew the wound in her heart from Thomas&039;s loss and Rex&039;s betrayal was still deep Not toover her