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His mouth leavesue and teeth down s his ers, he pulls off my boots, socks, unbuttons my dark jeans, pulls the no time, he hooks my panties, pushes them down, and pulls thes

Those saers rise to ainst the door He teases first the inside of one thigh, then the other, fire pooling in all my sensitive places I moan, about to lose ue slides inside of ainst the cool wood of the door Eli’s fingers dig into the spaces between my rib bones A sob escapes me Can’t help it Can barely breathe

Then he rises and carries low, and shadows reach, grasp, and miss Eli sets ainst the bare skin of my neck "I want you forever," he says "I alant this" He nipsme to shiver "You"

Eli’s boots, jeans, and boxer briefs are off and kicked away into a dark pile When he finds ainst o aroundagainst me, but I feel his body quiver He whispers I love you in French I feel every ounce of strong, possessive emotion within hiht resting on his forearm With dark eyes filled with love, he studies me wordlessly Then his mouth covers s around his waist, drag roans, and in one move he enters me He sucks in a breath, stills, and murmurs more French words They’re muffled and I don’t understand the its place deep within, and I hold on for dear life He begins to rock, his hard thighs trappingshards of blinding light scattering behind the lids of asm racks me, and at the same time Eli’s own climax tears fro me in the most ancient of ways Uncontrolled Out of control

Perfect

As we both crash back down to earth, Eli re in harsh puffs against htly around ainst him, and I feel more emotion, more love, in that full-body embrace than even the words themselves

It’s that powerful It’s that beautiful

And I never, ever want it to end

Part Six

DEMENTED ANGELS

I a is still

--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parasite

If anything ever happens to Riley, I don’t think I’ll survive it My love for her has quadrupled since I first realized I loved her She fits ether The thought that so as powerful as a Black Fallen can manipulate her in her sleep petrifies me She thinks she can handle herself in all situations, and for the most part, she can But with a Fallen? I’m not so sure They’ve already homed in on her It’ll be up to ht that I’ve sent an Earthbound angel to souesabout it I knoill have to rectify it If it kills me, I’ll rectify it The look in Ian’s eyes, the eyes of the Earthbound, hauntsProfound I see it in my head, constantly

It pisses me off

I’m ready to find the Fallen and kick their asses

The team practices for another day Tristan and Gawan’s lessons are invaluable They are truly ine what they would’ve been like in their prime Well, they are in their prime; neither of theinal prih as shit, too, and they cut no slack where their students are concerned Vampires don’t sweat, but immortals do and so do the lupines And so does a human with tendencies They worked h hours of stances, ere finally given the blades Not easy And not nearly as easy as the little blades I’ with Hell, you aim and throw Or you stab With a sword you have to watch your back And your own appendages

After, we paired up At first our mentors took turns with each of us Tristan is truly a unique guy to engage in swordplay You wouldn’t think soantly He makes it look effortless

It’s a shaet the fast version of Swordplay for Duist of it In the Crescent’s courtyard, Jake has set up several duain, not as easy as it looks in the oes the head Nuh-uh You’d better hit that neck at just the precise ht behind your swing Or else it’ll hang And squirt stuff

Not pretty