red against her ribs, a frantic, painful rhythm. Every survival instinct in her modern brain
shed against something sharp. It was a jagged s
he gripped the sharp edge, holding it out in front o
he shard i
, his breath coming out in white clouds of frost. When his golden, slitted eyes locked onto the ma
he howling of the black energy storm. "If I lose cont
erine's heart sharper
level a forest. Yet here he was, mutilating his own body
enly shattered, replaced by an overwhe
at
d. The sharp piece of po
said. Her voice stopped shaki
ce, the razor-sharp energy leaving tiny, stinging cuts on her bare arms
straight
rag himself backward, but the severe wound
st. She reached out and threw her arms around his massive, trembling ne
burying her face in the crook of his neck. "Is this the 'resilience
k storm in the cave stuttered. The pure, soothing energy radiating from her
ath. The agonizing pain in his mind
act triggered somethi
olute, overwhelming need to mate and claim-o
ed them over, pinning Catherine
hem of her black t-shirt and ripped it dow
, burning body pressed her down. She tried to push against
enough to break the skin, but hard enough to leave a dark,
hick, muscular coils of the giant black snake. The heavy, freezing s
t, and the aggressive invasion of his tou
herine cried out, tears
n pierced through th
n at her. He saw the tears in her eyes, the fear in her face. The
king as he tried to pull himself away from her
he saw the blood dripping from his leg,
rs in his sweat-soaked black hair,
ispered fiercely again
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