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“Until then, however, there are certain things that you will struggle to understand.”
    When we’re together, as in the biblical sense? Here he was again, implying that they were destined to play the horizontal mambo for eternity. Of course, that was hardly a repellent thought—it was only the seeming lack of choice in the matter that stuck into Neko like a sharp pin. He could at least pretend that it was up to her.
    “You do realize that I have a say in this…this relationship that you keep predicting, don’t you?” she asked. “I told you that we can’t be together.”
    “You did. And yet you didn’t offer me a reason for it.”
    “My reasons are my own.”
    Fear, apprehension, scars. So many reasons that when you get to know me, you’ll no longer want me, Dragon.
    “Yes they are your own. And as for having a say, you don’t yet seem to grasp that you have all of it,” said Lumen. “If you decide that you want to be with me, then we’ll be together. It’s really quite simple—I know what I desire.”
    “Oh, yes. It’s all so simple. If I come to the realization that I want to be with you. Jesus, it’s like a bloody line out of a Shakespeare play. To fuck, or not to fuck…”
    The large man stopped and turned to face her. Once again she found herself staring up at him, doing her best to make eye contact in spite of a shyness overtaking her. His eyes were so bright in the dim light, so penetrating. Looking deep inside her, reading her soul.
    “ Fuck is a harsh, ugly word,” he said. “A word better reserved for prostitutes and drunks. I would make love to you, Neko. Caress your white skin with my fingertips. Treat your body as the beautiful sexual temple that it is. I would coax you to orgasm over and over again, with my tongue, my fingers. The swollen tip of my cock, stroking you as you watched, seeing how very, very hard you make me. Until you had no choice but to cry my name, to beg me for more. And I would slip inside you, tearing you apart—oh, but you’d enjoy it. You’d be mine then, forever. Because you would understand at last what it is to have a true bond with another.”
    “I…” she began, crimson heat invading her face and neck. Damn him. How could she possibly respond to such a proposition without a resounding yes?
    Delicious, cocky, infuriating man. Yes, I want you more than anything.
    But she didn’t have to reply, as it turned out. Lumen spoke again, relieving her of the words that had caught in her throat. “But none of that should happen until you know your feelings, and can confess them. At least to yourself. I’m not here to take advantage of you.”
    Her eyes went to the stone floor, the silence around her palpable, interrupted every few seconds by a slow drip-drip-drip sound in the distance.
    “I need to love you, you mean,” she said at last. A man she’d only met a few days before. A man she’d been hired to slay.
    “No. There’s no obligation to use that word.”
    But for a moment she considered telling him that she could see herself, feel herself, falling so hard for him that she might shatter into splintering shards when she hit the ground. That she was at his mercy, almost ready to surrender her life of solitude to experience a life with him.
    Mad a thought though it was.
    But instead she turned her eyes towards their destination and walked.

Journey
    N eko went silent for a time . As they walked she searched for a way to change the subject; to move away from the intensity of what had been growing between the two of them since the moment they’d met.
    Confusing thoughts drove through her in a flurry, her mind too overwhelmed by desire to think straight. But she needed to get back on track—after all, a few days earlier she’d been a simple Hunter. Her life had been easy, more or less. No complications; only tasks. Jobs. And now she found herself torn between two lives; the one she’d always known and a strange new one—more exciting, more