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everything from this one night that she could.

Chapter Four
    Marijka awoke with dawn’s first trembling touch on her face. It was a gentle light, drawing her carefully from the warm cradle of sleep. She yawned, inhaling the scents of the morning.
    The aroma of sizzling bacon and morning dew on young grass was not an unpleasant blend. Although, she hoped there was coffee. Her stomach growled in protest and she remembered she hadn’t eaten any of the tempting stew.
    She’d been too busy fucking the Aeternali enforcer.
    His arm was thrown over her waist and his even breath ghosted over the nape of her neck. His solid body was like a wall of living marble and Marijka felt safe for the first time since her mother’s death when she was ten. Which was just too bad for her because this was where it had to end. Marijka was going on to Ostrava and Luka was...she didn’t know.
    But it didn’t matter.
    Where could it go from here even if he wanted that from her? As a Guild cop, she barely had time to make friends with her new vibrator, let alone a flesh-and-blood man. Even if they decided to keep it on a strictly sexual basis.
    By the goddess, she wanted to fuck him again. And again, and...
    She shifted against him, pressing herself closer, and his cock hardened against her ass. His lips were hot on the back of her neck and his hand drifted up to cup her breast.
    “Good morning to you, too, malenkaya ,” he mumbled.
    Her stomach growled again, loud and angry like a starving dog.
    “So fierce.” He nuzzled her neck and moved to splay his fingers over her belly.
    Marijka could eat when she was alone on the train to Ostrava. She had to leave him and Aynkava today. She drew his hand from her belly down to her mound. “I’m hungry for other things first.”
    But she gasped when his fingers slipped over her clit. She was sore . That hadn’t happened since she’d lost her virginity.
    “It must be breakfast instead, pretty little Gypsy.” Luka pulled her closer against him, the act at odds with his statement. “The only train leaves at eight. It will be a long wait in the next village.”
    A long wait? Images of how to fill that time crashed into her. It was all him—on his knees between her thighs, rising up and taking her from behind, riding his cock... She could fill an afternoon with him. Days. Weeks. This male was surely an addiction. The sooner she got him out of her head, the better off she’d be. She’d had him once; it would have to be enough.
    Marijka wanted to lie and say she wasn’t hungry, but her stomach growled again. Her back was suddenly cold where he’d pulled away from her.
    “I’d advise you not to shower until you’re ready to leave Ostrava,” he said as he pulled on his slacks.
    Marijka turned to look at him. “Why?” Her initial reaction was to wrinkle her nose in disgust—who knew how long she’d be in Ostrava? She’d stink like a dead whore by the time she left. But he obviously had a reason and she knew it would be wise to listen to him.
    “Because you bear my mark. They’ll smell it on you and it will offer some measure of protection along with your Guild status. But as you saw last night—” he shrugged his massive shoulders “—even that might not matter.”
    It was on the tip of her tongue to ask again why they’d care if she smelled like him, demand to know who he was really, what was beneath his skin. But she knew he’d give her the same answer as last night. He was simply an enforcer and what happened between them hadn’t changed anything. He wasn’t going to suddenly trust her with all of his secrets, even though there was a part of her that craved that. She wanted to know more about him not just as a cop, but as a woman.
    These beasts though, they would smell his pheromones all over her. Marijka had to take whatever weapons she could get.
    The voice nagging in the back of her head asked her why his scent was a weapon yet again, but this time it answered the question and