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“How is this possible? I’m touching you.”
    â€œYes. Happened just after you’d left.” Any other time, she would have been mortified for him to see her like this: broken, helpless, naked but for a sheet covering her lower half. Her relief at seeing him alive and well, however, was simply too great.
    â€œI will destroy the gods for this. I will find a way to raid the heavens and I will—”
    â€œNo, no. This is a blessing. I’ve had time to think, and I believe I know what’s happening. Each time I admit something about you, like the fact that you did not deserve what was done to you, and that I trust you, I’ve been given back a piece of my life.”
    His brows furrowed together, and a spark of hope entered his eyes. “Can you pass the camp boundary?”
    â€œNo. My sisters carried me there, meaning to toss me out, but that invisible wall blocked them.”
    Fury replaced the hope. “We didn’t hurt your sisters—I knew you would hate it if we did, but now I wish I’d sliced each and every one of them to pieces. They abandoned camp or I would see to it now.”
    â€œYou’re here now. That’s all that matters. But…how long will you be able to stay?” Her nervousness returned. His king would want him back. And the Amazons would one day come back. “You can’t remain forever and I can’t leave. We’ll be forced to separate again and—”
    â€œIt’s all right. It’s all right, sweet. I’m here, and I’m not leaving without you. No matter what. You freed me. I will find a way to free you.”
    The burst of strength her nervousness had given her drained, and she expelled a breath. “As long as I have you, I’ll be all right.”
    â€œYes, you will.” He stretched out beside her and angled his head, displaying his neck to her. The scent of him filled her nose. Dark spice and tree dew. She inhaled deeply, savoring.
    â€œDrink,” he said.
    â€œWh–what?” Even when they’d been trapped on that island, he had not let anyone drink from him. Not from his wrist, and certainly not from his neck.
    â€œ Drink. I know biting and blood are distasteful to your kind, but you will heal faster if my blood flows inside your veins.”
    â€œNo, you don’t understand. I don’t mind drinking from you. I just don’t want to disgust you . I know you do not like such things being done to you.”
    â€œI want to give you everything, Nola. Even this. With you and no other. I need this, so please. Please.”
    Please , this proud, strong man had said. How could she deny him? She cried out as she edged toward him and sank her teeth into his neck, hard as she could, cutting past skin and hitting vein. Blood instantly trickled down her throat. Once, the thought of doing this would have been distasteful to her, as he’d claimed. But this was Zane. She wanted him inside her. Any part of him that she could get. And like him, she wanted him to have everything she had to give.
    â€œI never thought to allow someone to take from me again,” he said, petting her head. “The demon queen, I was her slave for many centuries and she took from me whenever and however she desired. Her methods sickened me, but I allowed them because she had something—someone—my compliance was supposed to purchase. Did I ever tell you that?”
    He was trying to distract her from her task, she suspected, as the warmth of his blood spun through her, lighting her up from the inside out. But she did not stop, because she wanted to hear more.
    â€œWhen she died and I was freed, I thought to never endure such things again. You, though, I think I would allow to do anything to me. It has been that way since the first. I don’t understand it, either. Your presence doesn’t drown out the memories or take away my revulsion for this act with others. My…need for you