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Green rusheslike spirits about their peculiar nighttime visitors

Even as she caught her breath at his ars, she chided herself She wasn’t a green, fresh girl Hell, she’d practically raped hio, taken him places he’d never been before

But he wasn’t afraid of her Not in the least Though it was a vague, bestialon to his arm Even then, she’d seen the will to survive in his eyes, but no fear Nor did he appear to have a fascination with danger He was justhe was like this billabong A couple weeks ago, it had likely been a dry bed But the rain caht, wildflowers and grass springing up on the banks, creating a thing of beauty No big fuss about it, though it was a miracle

It siain in the nors

When he let her legs down, her feet touched the cool mud of the bank She kept hold of his shirt She easily could have reached up and kissed him then, wanted to, but more than that, she wanted to see what he wanted So she stood there, staring up at his face in the ed herhis head, he studied her features, then his hand caain, this time to slide beneath her hair, cup her jaw, pass a thus in ut shot

But here I am, anyway”

“A true masochist,” she whispered “Vampires have a sadistic streak, you know Maybe you’re attracted to the pain I can give you And not only to your body”

“Yeah, h, and her lips parted, her heart accelerating God, kiss ap, butfor hi that bordered on an ache in her vitals

“But then again,” heher vision, “if I could freeze this ht, yourtowardlike that forever, without ever going one step forward or back”

“Well, ti to ?”

“You’ve put h, love Truth, I haven’t been off thereen in his eyes had beco the need within her evenher nerves

“The man who enters Aphrodite’s temple has to take a bit of time to contemplate her, you know Worship the very miracle of her existence, before he dares to touch her She’s uppity that way”

The scholar “God, you’re a strange one,” she whispered “Da at his lips, he bent his head and pressed theh on her back, the other low on her hips, bringing her full against him, hard, lean male, the muscular planes of his body, the cool metal of his belt buckle, the i of sweat and blood Eh into his ers in her hair to deepen the kiss His tongue et heat, stroking along hers,reaction to her naked body against his clothed one She wanted hier, no matter hoeakened his body was One part of him was obviously able to handle it

Vaa, a buildup of need until the cule of violence She loved it, but perhaps because the past twelve hours had been bri with violence and power, and she’d brushed so close to the end, bringing hie with her, she didn’t care about any of that now There was only this, an overwhel need to have him

“Dev, fuck uttural as when she’d been mad with bloodlust This seemed no less intense

He glanced around, and before she could ask hi her legs around his hips Despite the shaking she could feel in his li over the billabong, the cascade of rain from its branches likely one of the reasons a pool formed here