Marked by Midnigh by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian [Adrian, Lara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lara Adrian, LLC
Published: 2014-06-29T07:00:00+00:00

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She wanted to push him away.

She wanted to tear her mouth from his, retreat to the other side of the room, out of his arms.

She wanted to scream, but it wasn’t terror or panic making her senses explode with the need to escape. It was desire.

Raw, hungry, impossible desire.

Something she had never known, had never expected to feel so powerfully. She could hardly contain it, the need Mathias’s kiss stirred inside her.

She could hardly breathe, hardly think straight, for the way it coiled around her, stripping away her defenses. Removing each carefully placed brick in the wall she’d built around herself ages ago.

If she let it fall, there would be no building those defensive walls again--not with him.

She would be at Mathias’s mercy, and he already knew too much.

He’d seen too much.

Nova moaned, forcing herself to break away from the pleasure of his kiss.

“Mathias, I don’t...I can’t,” she stammered, not even sure what she was trying to deny anymore. She only knew that if she let him continue touching her, kissing her, wanting her, she would be lost to him completely. “Don’t do this to me.”

“Don’t do what?” His deep voice was a growl against her cheek, then down along the side of her neck. “Don’t kiss you? Don’t want you? What shouldn’t I do, Nova?”

“Everything.” She drew back from him then, crossing her arms over herself when his body heat was gone and a chill settled into her bones. She put more distance between them, needing it in order to convince herself that she could do this--that she could push him away when it was the last thing she wanted in that moment. “I’m scared, Mathias.”

He took a step toward her. “Don’t be. Not of me.”

She bit her lip, trying to conjure the words she needed to save herself from giving in to him, from falling any further. But her heart wouldn’t cooperate with her head. Words lodged in her throat.

Then a knock on the door did the hard work for her. Eddie’s voice sounded on the other side. “Nova, you there? Let me in, will ya?”

God, she couldn’t let the kid see that she had someone in her apartment. Especially not a Breed male, whose glowing amber eyes and sharp white fangs were liable to send Eddie screaming back to Ozzy downstairs in the studio.

She’d begged off her shift tonight and cancelled all of her appointments, claiming she was sick. That lie would hurt even worse, if they knew she was up there thinking about getting naked with Mathias.

Which she wasn’t, she told herself. Not thinking about it, or doing it.

She closed her eyes, exhaling a heavy sigh. “Another time, Eddie, okay?”

“Oz sent me to check on you, make sure you’re not pukin’ your guts out or something.”

“I’m not,” she said, casting Mathias a pointed look. “I’ll be fine, I promise. I just need some time alone, that’s all. Tell Oz not to worry about me.”

“Sure, but you know he’s gonna worry ‘til he sees you for himself.

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