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Oh "I appreciate your honesty" Why won’t he talk to me?

Curiosity bombarded her Did his answer embarrass him, perhaps? If so, why? She desperately wanted to know, but let the matter drop For now

"We are almost there," he said Almost at the crack

"Good" He was still close to her, still behind her, but he made sure not to touch her Yet he couldn’t stop his heat fro her It was not a heat shefurnace that was Hell His was…heady

He stopped, forcing her to do the saht it would be" His breath trekked over the back of her neck

"Wh--what?" she asked, horrified Being near her orse than he’d thought?

"The wall What else?"

Thank the gods, she thought, expelling a breath Foolish woman Her life depended on this wall She should not care whether a aze straight ahead, herman behind her Thick claw rooves on the other side were massive craters here

Hope abandoned her

Irreparable In every way

"They are more deterhtly No reason to speak her fears aloud Geryonhis abilities

He adjusted his grip, his arm just over her shoulder A tremor raked her If she stood on her tiptoes, she would feel his skin through her chih it had been hundreds of years since she’d had a man, she remembered the comfort such simple contact could offer

"Do not worry, Kadence I will not allow the her naladdened her "Just so you knoill not allow them to hurt you, either" It was a vow

There was a pause Then, "Thank you" He sounded unsure

"You are welcoht she heard him s "Shall I try and patch this side?"

"No" Too much effort for too little reward She realized that now "We should h Lords is the only way to prevent hter erupted behind them, and they both stiffened

Dehter increased in voluhed "I cannot battle the onto her waist

She gasped Finally He was touching her It was a and wonderful, wild and intense But there was no comfort in it, as she’d expected No, instead she experienced white-hot, searing arousal And a burning desire for more

"What should we do?"

"Time to fall, Kadence," he said, and then he released the rocks, taking her over the edge with him

CHAPTER SEVEN

THEY SEEMED TO FALL FOREVER Geryon retained an iron-edged grip on the trery silk ribbons She didn’t screas around hi he had not

It was his first taste of heaven In this life, and his other

"I’ve got you," he said Her body fit perfectly against his, soft where he was hard, smooth where he was callused

"When does it end?" she whispered, but still he caught the undercurrents of panic in her voice

They were not twirling, wereEspecially, he reflected, for one used to flashing from one place to another

"Soon" He’d fallen like this only once before, when Lucifer summoned him to the palace to explain his new duties But he had never forgotten the experience

Like before, flaold in the shuddering darkness Except before, those fla at hioddess?

She was eous More determined Every minute he spent with her, his desire for her intensified She was the break of dawn in the bleakness that was his life She was refreshing ice in sly as he was, she would run fast and far if she knew the un to weave of the his tongue over every delicious inch of her Her,out in abandon as he filled her with his shaft Far more than the kiss she would have allowed hiratitude?