Primal Heat by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2010-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

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1

He was naked and on his knees.

Kyber. Her One.

Chained in the middle of a small, cold room, his arms were stretched out to the sides, wrists in heavy manacles. A thick collar wrapped tight around his neck and attached to the ceiling. He sagged against the bonds, his long ebony hair falling forward to cover his face.

He didn’t even look up when the door opened, gave no indication that he’d even noticed.

Jana’s heart stuttered, her palms moistening on the handle of the gun she held. Was he more damaged than their intelligence had led them to believe? There was no way a Kith, especially the Kith emperor, wouldn’t detect someone’s approach. A low hum vibrated through the air in this entire military compound. White noise, with an extra added squeal that dampened the Kith’s psychic ability. Still, Kyber’s animal side should have sensed her, smelled her. He didn’t so much as twitch.

She swallowed, giving herself a moment just to look at him. It had been so long—months—since she had seen him, touched him. Dark, ugly bruises and fresher crimson lash marks mottled his once flawless skin, needle tracks from whatever they were drugging him with scored the insides of his arms.

But he was alive. That was all that mattered. He was alive and whole and could heal from whatever they’d done to him. Relief made tears well in her eyes, but she blinked them back. Holstering her weapon, she moved to kneel before him.

She lifted her hand, and his head snapped up, startling her. He lunged for her, wrenching at his shackles. His fingers were tipped in deadly talons, long fangs curving from his mouth. Her breath seized in her lungs as his violet eyes locked on her face, alert…and glittering with hate. Hate for her. Hate she’d more than earned.

Rage tightened his bruised features, and his eyes narrowed to dangerous slits, pale lavender sparks roiling in his irises, but not as fast as they would have if the white noise weren’t pumping through every inch of this hellhole. The chains rattled as he struggled against them again. He hissed at her, more beast than man gazing out of those eyes at her.

Heart pounding in her ears loud enough to drown out all other sounds, she scrambled back. She closed her eyes for a moment, shutting out the ugly truth written on his face. He despised her. Her One despised her. Sucking in a deep breath, she forced herself to calm. She’d known it was coming, known she deserved it, and it was hard pretending that everything was going to be all right, but she had to. She always had to.

She met his gaze, unflinching before the disgust reflected back at her. “I’m going to get you out of here and back to your ship. We’ll deal with everything else after that.”

He snarled, the feline sound a subvocal rumble in his throat. It raised the hairs on her arms, and unease crept up her spine. Despite the fact that he was chained, she felt like the helpless prey to his ruthless predator.

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