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chastised.
    “I don’t need you to touch me there!” She snapped.
    “ If you wish to let your wound fester and bleed, you will die.  I care not what you choose and I have little time for your incessant defiance.”
    Alex grunted , but relaxed into his touch.  Her brows furrowed together and she struggled to keep her leg still through the sting that accompanied his tongue hitting her open wound.  After a few moments he leaned back from the girl’s thigh to inspect his work. 
    Alex noticed t he man looking at her and blushed deeply.  She pulled her leg away from Tavi, and he allowed her to push back onto the cushions of the bed.  He stood and walked to the other side of the tent, where Alex could see her belongings scattered on a low table.
    Tavi picked up the small silver box.
    “Hey, leave my stuff alone! ” she shrieked.
    “Where did you obtain this ?” he asked.
    “That’s none of your business,” Alex fired back.
    Tavi narrowed his eyes at the girl.  How ungrateful she was.  He had rescued her from rape and death, treated her wounds, and now she would not even answer a simple question.  Tavi had never met a woman so disrespectful.  Before Alex could blink he was before her, inches from her face.  His body pushed hers back down onto the bed.
    “You will answer my question,” Tavi said straining to hold back a growl.
    “No, I will not,” Alex said, sticking her chin out in defiance.
    He let out a deep growl that shook the cloth walls of the tent.  Alex flinched, but still said nothing. 
    “If you continue to defy me, your fate will be lamentable, ” he warned.
    Alex just stared back at the angered demon, defiance still plastered on her face.  In an instant Tavi had picked her up off the bed and was standing behind her.  He wrapped an arm around the girl’s midsection and pulled her into his naked torso. He grasped her narrow chin with his other hand, and pulled her ear close to his mouth.  His hot breath tickled her ear, his voice a velvety whisper.
    “You will submit to me, girl.  Or I wi ll make the intentions of your previous attackers look tame.”
    The scruff of his unshaven face scratched against the soft skin of her neck.  A low rumble echoed his words, and vibrated through Alex. She felt the heat in her stomach begin to stir, as her back was pressed firmly into the muscular chest of the powerful demon behind her.  The heat of his body warmed Alex through her badly torn pajama remnants.  She let out a heavy sigh to release the tension that had built in her stomach.  Tavi felt the change in her aura, and his nostrils flared as he scented the girl’s arousal once more in the air.  He released his grip on her and stepped away.  The loss of his warmth making her shiver.
    “You will sleep,” he said, “ I expect you to be more forthcoming in the morning.”
                 

Chapter Eleven
     
    His lips kissing a hot trail down her collarbone.  The sting of cold marble on her heated flesh.  A name, Balthazar, moaned in a breathy question of uncertainty. 
    Pain flooded Alexandra’s body as her eyes opened to the fabric roof of Tavi’s tent.  Memories flooded back from the night before.  Alex let out a heavy sigh, trying to shake off the exhaustion that had overcome her.  She moved to sit up but was forced back down to the bed in pain. 
    “Wh at ails you girl?” Tavi asked from across the tent where he sat reading her book.
    “Nothing,” Alex replied, “I’m just tired.”
    Alexandra thought about the name in her dream. 
    “ Balthazar,” she mumbled under her breath.
      “Where did you learn of that name? ” Tavi demanded suddenly appearing before Alexandra, his sensitive ears easily picking up the girl’s words.
    She blushed, her embarrassment heating her round cheeks as she thought of the man in her dreams.
    “I just…heard it somewhere,” she lied, looking up at him from under her brows.
    Tavi stared back at her, his features motionless.