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not
leave your caves. How long do you intend we stay buried here?”
    “Until your memories of Before return.”
    “And what if they don’t?”
    She bit her lip, a look of uncertainty on her
face. After a long moment, she straightened her shoulders. “Memory will
return,” she answered him decisively. “Emotions have done so, memory will soon
follow. We stay until that time. Do I have your oath?”
    By Mylona, he admired her determination. Even
knowing she was a rebel, he found himself drawn to her strength, if not her
proud beauty. He’d wanted her Before, that much of his Before was uncovered. To
learn more of his blinded memories, he would give her the oath she demanded.
    “Very well. You have my oath not to leave
these caves until memory is restored. Now release me.”
    Slowly, she leaned forward from her kneeling
position, raised the end of the blanket covering him and released the
restraints binding his legs. He remained still. Waiting. Watching.
    Pulling back a moment, she studied him. As if
satisfied with what she saw, she stretched over his body, and released the
first restraint. He slowly brought his arm down, his muscles protesting at the
movement. As the second bond was released, faster than a striking viper, he was
up and had her pinned to the ground, stretched fully beneath his naked body. He
captured her wrists and pulled them above her head, anchoring them with one
hand.
    She didn’t fight him, simply lay quietly
beneath him, her breathing shallow as she gazed up at him. Devon leaned in
closer. A wave of consuming lust flooded through him, hardening his body.
    “So, Female, what will it take, I wonder, to
woo the answers I seek from lips, so experienced and attentive in other ways?
Was your trust misplaced do you think?”
     
     

CHAPTER FIVE
     
     
     
    Eluria felt every inch of Devon’s naked flesh
against her body as he pinned her beneath him. She should have expected nothing
less. He was no longer the youth she’d fallen in love with in the Before. He
was a dangerous predator, and she was his prey.
    Her heart pounded, but she refused to
struggle against him—or fight for her life. “You have the upper hand, Enforcer,
do what you will. It was my choice to grant you freedom. I live—and will die—by
my own choices—wrong or right.”
    His flinty gaze bore into her, piercing her,
igniting her flame. He leaned closer, chest to breast, hip to pelvis, with one
hand carrying the majority of his weight, yet pinning her effectively beneath
him. His fierce heat wafted over her, through her, his male hardness pressed
into her feminine core.
    Control shattering, Eluria’s radiant aura
burst free, the fiery, flickering evidence of her sexual arousal overly bright
in the darkened recesses of the cavern.
    The look in Devon’s eyes was one of triumph.
“So, Female, what would you offer me to assuage your need? Twilighter, how long
has it been since your last encounter? I need answers and you can provide them.
In return—”
    Eluria turned away, unwilling to meet his
gaze. She refused to rise to his taunt. His grasp tightened on her wrists and
she winced. “How long have you been without completion?” he repeated through
gritted teeth.
    “What do you care, Enforcer? Why do you care?
I’m nothing to you. If it’s you who want release, say so,” she challenged him
in a low deep-throated tone meant to entice. “There’s no need to tackle me. I’m
trained, after all, to service those very needs. But it will not give you the
answers you seek.”
    Devon’s hard gaze roved insolently over her
taut body beneath him. Finally, he released her and stood. Towering over her,
he studied her as she lay still, appearing to wait for his next attack. When it
became obvious he planned no further assault, Eluria jumped to her feet and
retreated across the room. The distance she created helped to reassert control
and her radiant red glow flickered and disappeared.
    She walked to the chest containing