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ng in sight. Red fire coursed through her veins, settin

t comes with it. Oh, how she yearned for a sip. She only needed one tempting drop to satisfy her hunger. She licked her lips and licked him, enjoying the salty

uscle. She scratched ridges into her stony skin to declare her dominance. He belonge

I know. Autumn, I know what y

neck to the pit of her stomach. In an instant, she opened her eyes and saw the man hovering over her in the form of a looming black silhouette. When

itch blackness, she could make out his icy

voice vanished as he asked menacingly

through her veins. She took a deep breath, sensing his rage as strongly as his attraction and the moist heat between her own leg

nced a refocusing of her vision followed by a refocusing and a blurring of it. Wh

s words seeped into her ears

d and roused by her natural, instinctive fear. Her heart was pounding against her ri

, twisting as it tried to suffocate her. Her muscles spasmed and ached as if hit by an electrical current. There was a deep, unearthly growl to her scream. The suffering ended at tha

dows shifted, and the alluring sce

gloom of the car. There was a brief pause while she sniffled. A rush of excitement sped through her mind as the sour odor of trash mixed with the warm,

he word out loud would slow the racing of her heart. It was the sa

hrough the grimy windshield. He was dressed in dirty jeans and a torn T-shirt. He held a beer can in one hand a

gling from the dashboard by a tangle of wires, and the passenger seat had a huge gash in it where the foam stuffing had blown out. The interior's plight caused her to wrinkle her nose. Her own actions cau

reet. In the past, she had never experienced fear. In the past few months, she'd been experiencing a brand new emotion: fear. To whi

. In spite of this, she felt no better. Not until he pounded his fist on the hood, gave her the "go to hell" eye, and hissed at her

ck glance at her watch, she experienced a mixture of disappointment and relief, the intensity