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with tension.  The arrangement you suggest requires a level of trust
most humans are not capable of.
She placed a finger across his lips. Her other hand finished
wrenching open his jeans.  Don t be afraid. You need to feed. I m
here. And I long for your kiss, Sebastian. Your deepest kiss.
He was ravenous now. She could feel the need pulsing in him,
concentrated in the part of his body that strained against her palm.
Pushing the t-shirt up over her hips, Sebastian pulled her on top of
him and nudged her thighs apart. Briana gasped as he thrust into her
with such force that she rocked backward. His hands curled around
her wrists, dragging her back toward him. Impatiently he peeled her
nightgown over her head and tossed it on the floor. Then he lifted his
head and fastened his mouth to hers.
Sharp teeth dragged across her lower lip, splitting it with razor-
like precision. A warm, liquid sensation took the place of the pain she
expected, followed by the metallic taste of her own blood. When she
opened her mouth, Sebastian s tongue swept inside to cleanse her
wound.
As he drank, his body grew warm against hers. Soon his nipples
burned like twin coals pressed into her skin. She could feel him
swelling still larger inside her as his mouth pulled away from hers and
slid down into the hollow of her neck.
The sharp, sweet pain between her thighs erupted at the precise
moment his teeth broke through the tender flesh at her throat. Another
flood of warmth, thicker and heavier this time, pooled around his
pursed lips. Briana moaned, siphoning pleasure from his body as
needily as he savored her blood. Her lust burned as raw and as feral as
his appetite.
The harder she twisted and bucked against him, the more securely
his teeth and his cock held her in place. A single chord seemed to
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stretch from his ravenous lips to her most feminine center. Sebastian
strummed it, and her, with his whole body until he brought her to a
perfect crescendo of pleasure.
When it ended, he extracted his teeth from her flesh and lifted her
off his still-rigid erection. A thread of warm blood still trickled from
the mark his kiss had made. Tilting her head with both hands, he
applied his tongue to the gash and massaged it shut with a series of
slow, tender strokes. The gentle laving swept away not only the last
flecks of moisture, but any trace of pain. The quick pulsations of her
flesh as it healed merged with the lingering throb of her orgasm.
Briana felt herself dissolve into a puddle of pure bliss as stretched out
beside him.
They d kicked away the sheet and blankets, and Sebastian s jeans
had been cast aside, too. Nothing remained to hide them from one
another. Briana let her eyes rake his body while he did the same. She
loved looking at him, especially now, when his skin glowed hot and
flushed with her own life-warmth coursing inside him.
His lips swelled ruddy and hot, too, moist with her blood and slick
with his own healing saliva. She brushed her fingers over his mouth
and delighted in the tiny kisses he bestowed on her fingertips. Then
she curled up against him and rested her head in the crook of his
shoulder.
Briana wasn t sure how long they lay together in the moonlight,
her mind drifting on a wave of physical satisfaction and fatigue. Her
insides still pulsed with the aftershocks of their joining, but the loss of
blood had left her sleepy and weak. That boneless feeling would be
temporary, she knew. For the moment, it felt oddly pleasurable. She
closed her eyes in perfect contentment.
Eventually she opened them and noticed that Sebastian had
covered her with the quilt. He lay on his side next to her, his head
propped up on his left arm. His soft gaze seemed to warm her bare
skin as his eyes trailed over her.
 I don t know where this will lead, but I m willing to try, he said.
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 You re sure you won t leave me and run off to Paris? That s
where all the wild women are, I ve heard.
He shook his head.  You must never compare yourself to Amelia.
The man who wed her is long dead. Morgan House is my home now,
in a way I don t think it ever was before.
 I m glad. Briana fell silent for a while.  There is something
else, she said at last.  What about Ruby? Will she accept me? I doubt
she s in the market for a step-grandmother.
His jaw hardened.  Forget Ruby. She is a bit lacking in self-
control, admittedly, but she would do nothing to hurt me. Especially
where you are concerned. I will see to that. Always.
 All right. I believe you. The last word he had spoken lingered in
her mind. So many couples spoke of being together forever. If things
worked out with Sebastian, she realized they really could share an
eternity.
But they could sort all that out later. Right now, she needed to
sleep. Though she knew he would have left by the time she woke up,
he d be back soon enough. That was what real trust meant.
She closed her eyes again and drifted off.
* * * *
Standing in the center of the same jail cell he d taken Briana from
only hours before, Graham stared at his lone visitor with undisguised
contempt.
 What the hell do you want? he growled.  Who let you in here
in the middle of the night?
 Let s just say the cops owed me a favor. Ruby shrugged and
threaded her fingers through the bars. The front panel slid open with a
screech of metal. Graham s eyes widened as she stepped inside and
closed it again.
 How d you do that?
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 I dated a burglar many years ago. He taught me a few tricks.
Maybe I ll show you later. Right now I want to talk about what
happened on the boat.
 Don t start on me. I know what you want. You want to make sure
I confess, so Briana and your brother can sail off into the sunset.
Well, forget it. I m pleading not guilty to everything. Let them prove
it if they can.
Ruby laughed.  You have no idea what you re talking about.
Somehow, you ve failed to notice that I can t stand Briana. I d be
happy to keep her away from my brother. And Ami? You did me a
favor. Now at least Todd and I can get it on in peace once they
stitch his scalp back together, that is.
 Yeah, I d been waiting to deck him for a long time. I don t know
what you see in that wimp anyway.
 I admit that you have a point there. She crossed the cell, sat
down on the bed, and patted the spot beside her. Cautiously he moved
closer.  When it comes to testosterone, there s no doubt that you re
gallons ahead of Todd. Sensitive guys are fine for a while, but it s
nice to have one who can win a good old-fashioned fistfight too. I
always liked you, Graham, though you got too worked up over Briana
to notice.
Brightening, he moved closer.  Yeah?
She looked around the cell.  It must be pretty lonely here.
 It s all right. I ll get out. They don t have any real evidence
against me.
 Sorry to burst your bubble, but that s not what I heard. Briana,
Todd, and my brother are all eyewitnesses to kidnapping, assault with
a deadly weapon, and an admission of murder. I m not saying I
believe them, of course.
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