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"Woman, you cannot escape otten ahead of her? Ho? With a gasp, she jolted to her feet and bolted in the opposite direction, the saed three steps, he was blocking her path

Eyes widening, she ground to a halt Hoas he doing that? "Who are you?" sheMaddox Violence, as I told you" He paused, peering at her with deter to know the taste of you"

King? Violence? Shaking her head, Farrah backed away from him "You’re crazy I’m crazy This is crazy Just…leave me alone" With that, she spun on her heel and ran as fast as her feet would carry her Again

MADDOX WATCHED HER GO He didn’t materialize in front of her this time, for he knew that at any tiers, he could find her Oh, yes Wherever she went, he could--and would--find her He hadn’t lied Her erotic scent, a fragrance of wild passion and sweet female, would instantaneously lead hiifted him with the ability

He was hard for her, his blood a molten river inside his veins For a moment, one breathless moment, she had looked at him and there had been desire in her eyes Stark, needy desire that had intensified his own

He could find another woman to slake his body’s centuries of denied desires--he sht now, he wanted that one, with her silky fall of ht hair, with her dark eyes and lush, red lips With her delicate curves and siren’s voice Her breasts and their hard little nipples had been s had been made to wrap around his waist

At the moant name for a woman of many contradictions In the tiry, fierce, tender, teasing, incredulous and afraid He’d liked the fierceness best Had wanted it directed at him In bed

She’d stolen his box with a skill that surprised him Tempted and aroused hi hiain, he would have that woman Under him, over him, a part of him But he would have her a little later Outside now, he simply reveled in the fact that he was free At last, he was free from the constrictions of that hated box

He was Pandora’s prisoner no ht air, its crisp coolness a caress to his skin And still rage filled hi had he wished for a ods who had refused to listen? Eternity, it seehtened, he pounded on the closest wall The entire structure shook He kicked lad Farrah was not here to witness his tantru except, perhaps, the woe was spent

When he calht He did not knohere his men were or what Pandora had done to them when they’d escaped Were they still alive? He must know, for he was responsible for the, he would find theht winked down at him "Free"

Locked away these many years, with no one but the beast inside of him for company, he had finally learned to control his need for blood and retribution He was still dangerous, still more of a weapon than a man, but he could operate in this e a life for himself and his men A life they had been denied because of one foolish mistake His mistake

He strode back to the room he’d abandoned As the walls closed around hiathered the box, the rinned She would want that back, he was sure

"I’ she could not hear hi in her bones

He did not knohere Pandora was, but he would find her, too She would know the taste of his beast at long last He would kill her as he’d dreaht, without hesitation, heaping yet another sin upon his already heavy shoulders--a sin for which he uilt invariably hit him But he did not care

Go Find the little thief and sate your desires Afterward, he would begin to hunt down Pandora and his men One by one