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"I need you to find er forher a chance to respond, he shifted to cover her with the cool weight of his body, his head swooping down to clai kiss

An exquisite shudder shook her body Insanity summed it up nicely

But soic consurowled low in his throat, his handsthe soft curve of her breast as he spread frantic kisses over her face

"Jas her lips "You were sent here for ht have protested if his hand hadn’t trailed down to stroke between her thighs with experienced ease

She ht flesh, her back arching in growing pleasure It didn’t seeain so soon, but as his finger dipped in and out of her, she found her hands tightening in his hair

"If you’re going to devour me, then do it," she rasped

His lips brushed over her cheek, then down the line of her jaw "Patience, cara" He scraped his fangs down the length of her throat "All good things"--he nibbled down her collarbone--"in ti tip of her breast

She hissed Her patience was legendary She’d spent over a century cataloguing every plant that could grow beyond the Veil where the sunlight never pierced the thick mists But how the hell was she supposed to be patient when her entire body was on fire?

She didn’t want to be patient She just wanted to once again feel that glorious release that hovered just out of reach

Fisting her fingers in his thick hair, she lifted her hips and wrapped her legs around his waist "The tiarded her with a rueful sainst the straining length of his erection "If you wanted submissive you should have ith Charis"

His eyes darkened, his fangs long and lethal in the diaze, he shifted until the tip of his cock pressed against her entrance "Only you"

"Then take o tilted his hips forward, sliding into her with a slow, relentless thrust

Lowering her hands, Nefri clutched at Santiago’s shoulders,in approval at the delicious sense of fullness In this moment they were joined as deeply as it was possible for two people to be joined

As lovers

Her mind instantly shied from the implied relationship

"Nefri," he whispered close to her ear "Is so her face in the curve of his neck to absorb the richon, querida"

The words had barely left his lips when he was pulling out and thrusting forith enough force to bang the bed against the wall Her eyes squeezed shut Santiago’s tenderness had been a delightful surprise, but this was

This was the raw, aching sex her body had longed for This was perfection

Meeting higing them into the firm muscles of his butt Hehers in a kiss that de"

She nipped at his lips, her fangs careful not to break his skin

Vaht they wereor couldor ever would

Never Theunnecessary risks, right?

Shoving aside the unwelcoo as he stroked deeper, faster, taking her ever closer

He felt so good as he ave a last surge and sent theave a o’s to fill the room with a shimmer of brilliant colors, as if a rainbow had exploded

"Goodlord," she whispered in shock

Styx’s lair in Chicago

It was the steady pulse of power that led Roke frohtfall

There was only one thing that could create the nuclear level energy Whichrooh bookshelves to discover Styx’s Ravens gathered

A ainst the doorjamb and surveyed the collection of massive vampires ere draped on the delicate Louis XIV chairs and sofas They looked like oversized GI Joe action figures stuck in a miniature dollhouse

"A po and you didn’t invite ard hiht irritation He hadn’t made any effort to win friends and influence people since being forced to re that Roke was frustrated enough to pick a fight just to have a reason to hit so strides and stood directly in front of hio called just before dawn," he said

Ah Roke had heard the stirrings as he’d lain down to rest for the day, but it had been too late to seek out the cause

"It must have been a helluva call for you to su glance toward the larger-than-usual var had recently beco to an end?"

The vaoth warrior he’d once been "No, but your end can be easily arranged, Tonto," he growled