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g the wide, sheltered portico of theover her shoulder, when she saw him

The door jerked open and he stepped froray eyes dark and firing with fury as he slammed the door closed

Dawn s through her senses and her emotions was completely un-Dawn-like since she had learned Seth had a lover

She stopped, cocked her hip and stared back at hiripped her arht jacket she wore and steered her to another entrance

Steered her nothing—he was dragging her The heat of his palh the thin ainst her flesh and sent erratic ih her body

Past arousal was nothing compared to what she felt now It wasn’t arousal—it was an ier and a need that she couldn’t survive without fulfilling

He was hers He was a part of her soul When had that happened? Other than those brief days ten years before, she hadn’t allowed herself to be alone with him, hadn’t allowed herself the hope that she could have htmares

She didn’t want the pity She didn’t want the knowledge in his eyes of what she had been, but she couldn’t bear to lose him either

He pulled her into another door, sla her around to face him

Dawn se, deserted laundry room

“Isn’t this just a little too clichéd, Seth?” She drawled “And here I’e for you?”

My God His eyes For a second, the hunger, the lust that fired inside thehts from her head and the saliva fro fro the room with the subtle scent of male musk and heated flames It was the most erotic scent she had ever known

“Who the hell are you and what did you do with Dawn?” he snarled “Better yet, why the fuck are you here?”

“What, didn’t wantto your knees in surrender when you propose to your little bunny of the month?” she shot back, and watched as his nostrils flared, his head jerking back in surprise “Didn’t think Callan would tell me, Seth?” She wrinkled her nose as she had watched Cassie do a dozen ti down one of the Breeds for impertinence “Didn’t think poor little Dawn could handle the sight of it?”

His lips thinned as she watched the anger build inside hiet as mad as she was and let him burn inside