Her hands flew over the surface, desperately searching for the interior rele
had locked it from the outside using maximum
ed her high heels, tossing them silently aside. She pressed her bare feet
t was accompanied by the sound of fabric ripping and the
iver of pale starlight bled through the gap in the heavy blac
ing male figure was writhing on the mattress. The air in the room was thick, suffocatingly hot, and re
ll, sliding inch by inch toward the marble wet bar
metal cocktail shaker wobbled and tipped over,
, but in the silence of t
froze. The writhing
lowed with a terrifying, feral gold light. He locked onto J
top until her fingers closed around the cold, sharp handle of a metal letter ope
His feral index was completely redlined. The drugs pumping th
terrifying, supernatural speed that defied human physics. The sh
, Jolie threw her body to the
isecond prior. His palm slammed into the solid marble of the wet bar. The stone ex
physical power of a high-level Primal
hobia-a deep, psychological disgust of females-was violently rejecting the urge. He caught the sce
radiction between his biological drive and his psychological hatred was tearing his mind apart. He sl
to-ceiling windows, praying she could use the l
made it t
is golden eyes snapped back to her,
pact knocked the wind out of Jolie's lungs in a violent rush
ht the letter opener down, driving the meta
ment it hit his skin, it stopped. His muscles were as
letter opener from her hand, crushing the solid metal into a
o the floor above her head. His face lowered, his ragged, sc
om his body was unnatural. The drugs were tak
est, a strange, dormant lock snapped open. A rush of pure, icy
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