TER

WEARS

d the secret to survival. Sweat coursed down Zeke's borrowed body in heated trails, pooling in

d twisted her bones like clock

n the morp

g in agony. Zeke's instincts were fading. His movements, his habits, his rhyt

inutes...

herself upright. Pain lit every nerve. She straightened her spine, dragge

ide the door in

d to attention like pup

aid, voice cli

aine echoed, tapp

d stare he was known for. Her heartbeat drumme

nough," she

n stif

ared his th

You compromised my perim

owned.

for excuses?" Her tone

shu

d behind her back, exuding the quiet menace that made

happens when I'

lowed visibl

the space between them so

he whispered. "Then

yes w

nded, "on broken g

suffocating. Even the wal

e hesi

lb with his baton. The light shattered, raining glass like

eir knees as they presse

dare let her

cold command. The second she was out of sight, her

from the rot below. She climbed the staircase, biting down on moans of

he door, she was a shiver

k silk sheets, obsidian chandeliers dripping with crystal. She

on cracked

ulders

back

t her face as if to rip the mask off

a gasp of agony

eminine curves. Her hair spilled down her back like a flood

was Emil

oft. Te

. She crawled to it, dragging her sh

ready warm...thank G

et lover. The pain dulled. Her breasts bobbed above the surf

ive mi

, just

was

open like it

scre

ting in one hand, his shirt unbuttoned, tatto

" he growled, ste

, her che

url into the bubbles, but there was

a step

out of that cage."

r me," she stammered, eyes

send for

twitched i

to soften, silk wrapped in sugar. "Maybe... maybe they were confused. I was just doing what I wa

ust once. From her face...down to he

Her thighs shimmered like caramel. Her breasts wer

way, but he didn't. The knife in h

. "Because no way Riot or Coca

. "How could I have freed myself? Is it e

ntil he stood at t

eyes gleaming like sin.

uld be,"

challenged, her vo

. His lips parted

he s

traced the curve of her waist, clung to her n

d, thund

slowly, provocatively, as if t

jaw f

" he said hoarsely, backing up as

ispered, walking forward, bare fee

g, still breathing in that sultry rhythm that ma

d, eyes flicking between

ed, pressing her body against his,

e knife but he didn't lif

ess with me and wal

walk," she whispere

ainst the wall. Her fingers traced the ink on his chest.

. "Your pussy is worth nothing, I nee

cause you're a coward," she said, dragging her nails down his abs. "And that is