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orgasm shook
her body.
    She squeezed her eyes shut, quivering.
Garrett gasped softly into her throat, saying soft words in a
language she’d never heard before.
    “Damn, you feel good.” Slowly, he pulled away
from her, drew his softening manhood from her slick passage.
    Tahlia could only lay on the bed with her
body twitching from the aftershocks of her orgasm. What had she
just done? What had the loner vampire done to her?
    “What did you do to me?” she asked again.
    He rolled onto his back next to her, his
breath coming heavily. “I did nothing but enjoy you just as you
enjoyed me,” he said. His voice was deep and rough, as if he wasn’t
used to talking. A loner’s voice.
    She stiffened at the reminder of what he was
and why she had gone searching for him in the first place. Tahlia
sat up in the bed. He lay beside her completely unafraid, his
golden eyes molten with satisfied desire. But there was something
strange about those eyes. Something unnaturally bright, even for a
vampire. His eyes burned against his dark skin.
    “What are you?”
    He slowly turned his head to look at her,
blinking as he slowly focused all of his attentions on her. Tahlia
wanted to jump up, grab the clothes he had put on her body and flee
from the room. But she couldn’t. All she could do was stare into
the mesmerizing eyes of the creature who’d made love to her in a
way that no one ever had. Hotly. Possessively. Even now, the memory
of his touch was like a brand all over her skin.
    “What are you?” she asked again.
    The corner of his mouth tilted up, wickedly.
“I am an outsider,” he said.
    He sat up in the bed and reached out for her,
touching her cheek with the backs of his knuckles. Heat moved
through her in the wake of his touch. She gasped as that heat
settled into her stomach, pouring down between her thighs. She
wanted him again.
    As her body readied to receive him again,
Tahlia pulled away. Or tried to. But she was frozen by his touch.
Like in the clearing when she and the other hunters had lured him,
she was mesmerized by his golden eyes. Now that the passion between
them had been sated for now, a new, rational part of her brain
began to function, began to see clearly before where it had
not.
    “You’re a witch!” A witch who had been turned
into a vampire.
    She gasped it like an accusation. Her hand
fisted and flew to her chest. “You’re....” Then she shook her head.
“How come the Hunters did not know that?”
    He drew his hand away from her face,
frowning. “I’m on my own for a reason, woman. I don’t kill. I just
want to be left alone.”
    She shook her head, still dealing with the
world-rocking news that Garrett Grayson was not what the Hunters
thought. They had researched him. Studied his habits. He was simply
too good at hiding the bodies. Hunters were always thorough. They
always knew the Loner’s complete history and present before a team
was dispatched to kill or capture.
    “You must have killed humans!” The words
poured from her mouth even as she realized they weren’t true. “We
were just unable to find the bodies.
    “I am nothing like you’ve ever seen,” he said
roughly. “Don’t presume to know me.”
    “It is our way. Those who are alone are too
vicious to live away that way. Join a clan or die.”
    “Then join with me. We can be our own clan.
You and me.”
    Tahlia gasped. Shocked for the third time
that night. Join with him and leave her clan of sisters and
brothers behind? Never. But a stirring in her chest distracted her
from her vehemence, a recognition. No!
    She touched the center his chest where his
heart beat so strongly. Stolen blood pulsing through him, heating
him almost like a human. “Garrett—”
    The door exploded open. Splinters flying into
the room and over the bed. Garrett growled, grabbed her around the
waist and thrusting her behind him. Tahlia’s hand flew up to grip
his chest and hold him to her. His heart beat furiously against her
palm and Tahlia’s