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He fed on her in little sips, like she was the appetizer to a main meal He didn’t rip her shirt off her He undid the buttons one by one, using both hands to push the sides open to expose her breasts before he dipped his head and captured a taut, sensitive nipple in his mouthand then he nicked her there, too

Holly screaht hear

Venolected breast It was too ss with the pad of his thus twist and her body curve She kicked off her shoes and socks, tried to find a foothold in the earth, but it kept disappearing under a haze of need

S at her when he raised his head, Venom said, “I like your scream”

He’d opened her jeans and his hand was between her legs before she could process the words She screaers When he tugged off her pants to expose the peach-colored lacy panties she wore underneath, she didn’t feel the least bit exposed Twisting up with the primal speed he’d shown her she possessed, she switched their positions

He let her unbutton his shirt to expose the hard, toned plane of his chest His skin was the sao shirtless?” Older vampires found it difficult to tan, but Venom’s skin color was natural—it should still have been paler on the parts of his body that were most often covered

“I spent a lot of ti while I ay,” he said, lying there unworried that so”

Holly loved watching hih she’d never tell hi down, she played her hands over the ruthlessly toned plane of his chest before pressing her lips to his skin The contact wasn’t enough She wanted to rub herself against him, wanted to be skin to skin far more intimately

Sitting up on his body, she went to peel off her shirt when the wings inside her spread out in a violent burst

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Veno a mistake, but it was the most erotic mistake of his life He watched with barely leashed anticipation as Holly opened up her shirt, exposing the taut ers curl into the grass She was shtly predatory way that made him feel a little hunted

Venom liked it No woman had ever looked at him that way

Like he was her prey

A heartbeat later, her back arched violently, her head dropping back as her chest began to burn with an acid green glow that fors Strange, jagged wings with sharp edges that looked as if they ht, light green, rippling shades that seared bright enough to glow in the darkness

He snapped up into a seated position, his hands on her waist “Holly!”

Her fingers clutched at hiht to his biceps that her nails cut into his skin Pain, he realized, she was in pain He s to tear open a vein in his wrist, he held it over her ht this, or if it would just fuel the effect, but he had to try

Her throatdown her throat

The wings flickeredand faded

Holly’s head ca the back of her ar the white of her shirt, she stared at him with eyes that were stark “What happens now?”

Do I die? was the unasked question in those eyes stripped bare of all shields, all protections Will you execute me?

Venoed her close “Now,” he said, “we find out some answers”