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into her middle. A sob caught her just as he thrust. He froze, his hands flexing into her hips.
    “Damn, are you okay? I don’t wanna hurt you.”
    “I’m not hurt.” Though her heart might just break later. “Don’t stop. Not now.”
    His fingers released her hips.
    “No!” She reached for his hands. “Don’t stop.”
    “I’m not,” he said softly into her ear as he wrapped one arm around her hips, cushioning them against the counter’s sharp edge. “I’m not going anywhere.”
    To prove his point, he ground his hips against her ass cheeks, pressing his cock even farther inside her.
    “Come on, baby. Lean forward…just a little more.” He placed a hand on the back of her neck and showed her what he wanted.
    That was all it took for her to surrender.
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    And to realize she liked it.
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Chapter Five
    Justin came so hard he swore he shook his spine out of alignment.
    And all it took was her surrender. She bent her forehead to the counter, her hair spilling over her shoulders, baring her neck and back.
    He lost it then, exploded in a flash of heat that fried his brain and made his heart pound so hard he thought he might be having a heart attack.
    When he finally stopped shaking, he realized she hadn’t moved. As he pulled away slightly, his gaze caught on the pale, tattoo-like outline in the shape of her wings on her back.
    He didn’t even know if she’d come this time.
    “Red, are you okay?”
    “If I wasn’t, you would have been the first to know.”
    Her voice, muffled against the counter where she still rested her head, sounded tired. The clock on the stove to the left read 3:08 a.m.
    Like a bulldozer, his own weariness hit him and he laid his head against her back.
    Directly on that wing-shaped outline.
    “That’s just too weird,” he mumbled.
    She flinched and he tightened his arm around her waist while he rubbed the back of her neck. He slipped out of her as her muscles began to ease.
    She gasped, just a tiny intake of breath. “What are you talking about?”
    Damn, he must have said that loud enough for her to hear. “Your wings. Where’d they go?”
    “Oh.” Was that relief he heard in her tone? “They’re there. Just…stored for the moment.”
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    “Is that how you’ve managed to live here all these years without anyone knowing about you?”
    She moved and though he didn’t want to release her, he did so she could turn around. But when she continued to move away from him, he set both hands on either side of her on the counter, trapping her in his embrace.
    Her chin tilted and her head lifted so she could glare into his eyes. But she quickly looked away.
    “There are some of us who live among the eteri . I chose not to. I don’t care to blend .”
    She made the last word sound like a curse.
    “And you wouldn’t,” he said. Reaching for the strand of hair that curled over her shoulder, he rubbed the smooth, fiery red lock between his fingers. “You’re just too beautiful, Red. People would be drawn to you. Men especially.”
    Her gaze shot back to his, eyes rounded, and her mouth parted as if he’d said something that shocked her. Hell, it shouldn’t come as any surprise to her that he thought she was beautiful. He’d told her so many times already. Still…
    “You are, you know. Beautiful.”
    Her expression softened and a small smile tilted the corners of her mouth. Then she shook her head and the smile faded.
    “You do know I can’t let you leave here with the knowledge you now possess?” she said.
    Yeah, he knew that. And it satisfied some part of him that she struggled with the decision. She had to be struggling otherwise he’d probably be dead by now. But to come this close to proving decades of research correct—more importantly, vindicating his father—and have it slip away was devastating.
    He released her and turned to the refrigerator. He needed a drink, something to wipe away the taste of her,