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of blood filling his mouth. Lifting his fingers to his
lip, he gave Falynn a quick grin. “I should have remembered you bite.”
    “Of course you should have,” she replied, breasts heaving,
cheeks pink. “You taught me to.”
    A snort rumbled up Corvan’s throat, the sound suddenly lost
in his own grunt as she lunged and smashed her knee into his solar plexus. Pain
erupted in his chest, stealing his breath. He snapped straight, snatching her
right wrist before she could strike him, yanking it down as he swiped his foot
in a swift, hard arc against her ankle.
    She stumbled, falling sideways before flexing her arms and
throwing herself into the fall, executing a graceful cartwheel that threw him
completely off balance. His face hit the floor first, followed by his shoulder,
a shudder rocking his body as he came to rest facedown.
    Before he could move, Falynn rammed her boot heel into his
back, right between his shoulder blades, and he bit back a cry of surprise.
“You fucking left me.” She panted, spiked heel pushing harder into his back.
“You took me to the nine levels of sexual heaven then vanished. Not a fucking
word. I thought you were dead.”
    Corvan twisted his neck, staring up at her from the corner
of his sweat-stung eye. “I left you?” he ground out through clenched teeth,
shutting the slicing pain— and unexpected joy at her admission—from his
mind. She’d improved since he’d dropped off the radar. A lot. Fri’ac, at this
rate he’d need to Call just to stay alive. “Is that why you’re trying to kill
me? An emotional reason? Didn’t you learn anything I taught you?”
    A haunted emptiness filled Falynn’s eyes and she twisted her
heel deeper into his back. “I learned how to kill a man,” she growled. “Isn’t
that enough?”
    “No.” Corvan shook his head. “It isn’t.”
    A shimmer rippled through him. A thrumming of every molecule
in his body. Time froze for an infinitesimal moment—before he tore it apart,
ripping its very fabric as he Called his dimensional twin.
    Two men from different temporal dimensions, now occupying
the same temporal plane.
    He moved. Both of him. Whipping his arm out, he flipped
sideways, smashing his elbow into Falynn’s knee as his “other” grabbed her
wrist and flung her against the wall before she could regain her phenomenal
balance.
    The back of her skull connected with the sheet metal, the
den’s array of sex toys and devices rattling in their display units from the
shuddering impact. Her palms smacked the wall behind her as she fought the
g-force slamming her body backward, her long, thick plait slapping her own
cheek, drawing blood.
    Corvan charged the short distance between them, realigning
time and his dual existence as he did so, until only one man occupied the
current plane. The Call terminated.
    “What the fuck ?” Falynn cried, gibbering at him with
shocked confusion. “What the fuck did I just—”
    He snared Falynn’s wrists and pinned them to the wall on
either side of her head, ramming his body to hers. “Learning how to kill was
never the lesson,” he stated, cutting off her incredulous question, his heart
pounding, his blood roaring.
    “What was the lesson then?” Falynn asked, her
normally cool, composed voice husky with anger and bewilderment. Her pulse
hammered under his palms, a powerful beat that vibrated all the way down his
arms into his chest. “What were you teaching me all those years, if not
how to be an emotionless killer? Tell me, because I really need to know.”
    He gazed into her face, wanting to take away the pain he saw
there. “How to live.”
     
    His mouth took possession of hers. As forceful as ever. His
tongue plunged past her lips, tasted her, taunted her. He yanked her arms
higher above her head, the action thrusting her breasts harder to his chest as
he rolled his tongue over hers. Falynn whimpered, the inaudible sound trapped
in her tight throat.
    Why was he doing this? She’d been sent to