Amon's blood hit Cather

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