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She didn't trust the demon, didn't like him He was brutish, possibly a hardened murderer She was tempted to tell him where he could shove that canteen, but she needed the contents too badly

Humans could die after three days without water - indoors Carrow had been in hell forit

"Very well" She parted her lips, and he pressed the opening against them Water flowed, hot and ood

As she drank, she could feel the li"uid already hitting her syste over her with the force and speed of a drug rush Her eyelids slid shut

Within es ebbed

He drew the canteen away, but only to let her breathe for a second "So good," she murmured

He hastily pressed it back to her lips She peeked at hiaze hooded He was probably growing aroused by how greedily she hit that canteen

But she couldn't worry about that Water ran down her chin and neck, wetting her halter over one of her brsts Doesn'tmanipulated by a demon, was captive to his whims He could bite her at any time And I can barely keep lued to her sodden top He got a sinful look in his eyesthen he poured water over her other breast She jerked back, out of his hold, gasping, "Stop that!"

In thewater seeant and wicked She couldn't contain a shiver, and her niles hardened beneath her halter, right before his transfixed gaze

He gave a husky growl, e a weird sense of happiness Like awe Like wonder

"Ara, ainst his chest His voice had gotten hoarse

"Feain, he tried to ht that was the only reason she hadn't surrendered to him? "Yes, I know I' to feel about you the sa tone, she said, "Fate doesn't force witches to like people ill only hate the to explain this to you?" But it occurred to her that if he were as deranged and violent as his folder said, then as he still atte her? Why not just tie a rope to her collar and lead her away?

If this was truly a pitiless hell plane where one was either owned or a master, then had she just found the sole demon male ould try to win her?

Huh For the first time since she'd arrived in this plane, she didn't feel like death was ih the air, landing mere feet froray skin, a yawning, fang-filled ht thick li as its body All over its bu and bulbous with their harvest

Its antennae were as long as its li toward her