gallant or courteous or gentle. It was sheer raw need pouring through him at the thought of her watching him. He turned to face her house and the window where he knew she stood. Planted his feet and let her see him. All of him. Let her see his fierce arousal—his desire for her. Only for her.
Felt his legs tremble with the force of his longing. When he met her gaze through the glass, the shock of awareness sparked and burned through his veins. She wanted him, too.
Grimly determined, he released the water he'd been channeling and headed for the steps to her house. Prayed she wouldn't deny him. But realized, with the sliver of rational thought left to him, that they might both be better off if she did.
Chapter Nine
Kat knew the second Bastien made the decision. She saw his eyes change; saw them darken with a heat that mirrored her own. Watched in awe as the tendrils of water sparkling around him suddenly pulsed with a shimmering blue green light. Nearly fell to her knees when he started for her door.
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who'd stepped straight out of a legend. She heard the door bang open, and the sound sent shockwaves trembling through her.
Clutching the folds of her robe at her throat, she didn't even pretend to back away. She wanted him—oh, dear God in heaven, how she wanted him—and he was coming.
Stalking down the hall toward her with the arrogant pride of a warrior and the lethal menace of a predator. She didn't know which aroused her more. The cat inside her snarled its mingled defiance and desire, while the woman made a low, moaning sound in her throat.
He stopped, mere inches away, and looked down at her. His jaw clenched with the effort it cost him to remain still; to keep from touching her. The passion in his eyes seared into her, and she felt the melting in her core as it dripped warm, creamy wetness onto her thighs. He still said nothing, but the faint trembling shudder that shook through his body reassured her. This was no ravager to take without permission. He wanted her, but he waited.
The knowledge of her power over this warrior from ancient prophecy thrilled her beyond any desire she'd ever felt, and she had to put her hands out to his chest to hold herself upright. "Yes," she whispered. "Yes."
Bastien heard her surrender and threw his head back and roared out his claim. He had channeled the fury of lightning itself before, but had never known this searing fire that burned through his blood. The hunger echoed in his pulse and in hers, which he heard quickening as he reached out to her. Finally, finally put his hands in that wealth of glorious hair and gently wrapped one palm around the back of her head to pull her to him.
"Kat," he murmured. "Lady Kat, do you say yes to me? If yes, you will be mine for this night."
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She stared up at him, and the shape of her eyes was somehow lengthened, her pupils changed. The mysteries of womanhood and of her dual nature were reflected in her eyes. "Yes, Bastien. I say yes. I need to feel alive."
He paused, though nearly driven mad by her words. "I would not take advantage of your sorrow, my lady," he said roughly. "As a scion of Atlantis, I may call down an hour or two more of cold shower to ease this fire you create inside me."
She smiled at the image created in her mind and shook her head, then put a finger against his lips. "No, Atlantean. I do not say yes merely out of my sorrow, but from the need I have for you." She ducked her head and then raised it to meet his gaze. "The need I have felt since I first met you, two years ago."
The courage and desire shining in her eyes released him from the bounds of restraint, and he lifted
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