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burn on her arm pumping a wild, edgy power through her veins until she was abandoned. Scratching at his back, biting his neck, spurring him on with her heels in his flexing ass.
    Through sheer mulish determination, Eve broke through Alec’s steely control, grabbed him by the throat and balls, and rocked his world. As she pleasured him ruthlessly, his guttural cries filled the room, swelling up through the vaulted ceiling of her condominium.
    “Getting ready to leave again?” she asked harshly, clinging to his straining, sweat-slicked body with arms made powerful by the energy inside her. “Storing up future memories?”
    He grunted and licked the side of her face. “Making up for lost time. You’ll cover the future in daily installments.”
    “You wish.” She nipped his ear with sharp teeth, making him curse. “Enjoy the ride while it lasts.”
    His head lifted, revealing glowing eyes that sent violent shivers down her spine. Resting one hand on the mattress, he drove powerfully into her. Eve was so focused on the pounding of his hips against hers and the impending orgasm that she failed to register the danger until it was too late.
    Alec lifted his free hand, revealing the white-hot image of an eye in the center of his palm.
    “Oh, hell no!” She shoved at his shoulders.
    “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm—”
    He gripped her branded deltoid and burned her anew.
    Eve bit out a curse and belted him square in the jaw.

CHAPTER 6

     
     
    Eve frowned as the Harley rounded the corner of her street and pulled over to the curb several houses up from her own. Her dad would be dozing on the couch now, her mother upstairs in bed reading a romance novel, and her little sister chatting on her private phone line instead of sleeping. It was home and she loved it, but she didn’t want to go there now. The thought of being separated from the man in front of her made her feel panicky.
    “Did we have to come here right away?” she asked, regretting answering honestly when he’d asked for directions.
    As he turned off the engine, she laced her fingers together to keep him close. He was so warm, so solid, so big. Nothing like the boys she went to school with.
    He gently pried her fingers open. “Yes, it’s better for you, angel.”
    “Can’t we go somewhere else? It’s still early.”
    “No.”
    “Why? Why did you come to night if you didn’t want to hang out with me?”
    She felt him sigh. “I don’t ‘hang out,’ and even if I did, I couldn’t hang out with you.”
    “Because of my age?” God, she was so sick of being treated like a kid.
    “Among other reasons.”
    His head turned slightly and the glimpse of his profile, even under the weak illumination of the street-lights, took her breath away. Her heart thudded in an elevated rhythm, her breathing was quick and shallow. His lean hips were cradled between her spread thighs, her breasts pressed to his back. She knew he felt some of the pull she did or he wouldn’t have been waiting for her to night.
    But she wanted to prove it, so Eve shimmied her torso, rubbing her erect nipples against him.
    His breath hissed out between clenched teeth. “Get off the bike.”
    The tone of his voice brooked no argument so she dismounted with a moue. “What’s your name?”
    There was a long silence while he stared at her with that hot, intense stare. She could tell he was debating whether to tell her or not. Finally, he said, “Alec Cain.”
    Eve nodded and adjusted the strap of her bag. “Thanks for the ride, Alec.”
    She set off toward her house and a moment later the hog rumbled to life. Though the urge to look back was nearly overwhelming, her pride was stronger.
    She knew if he felt anything like she did when they were together, he would be back.
     

     
    Eve rested her right hand on the tile and stood with head bent beneath the pummeling water spray of her shower.
    Seven days.
Seven days of her life gone.
    She knew something drastic