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She dragged her hands over his chest, and his heart picked up speed.
He grunted, and they both lost their balance.
She tipped backward, into the car, and he went down on top of her.
He tried to get up, tried to push himself upright, but he got tangled up with the steering wheel.
She pressed her hand into his chest, letting out that keening cry of hers.
His heart went even faster.
Ithurt.
The pain grew, bubbling up, toomuch, taking over his body.
His fangs expanded.
He extricated himself from her, slithering backwards. He stood outside the car, panting, his heart stammering out of rhythm, groaning.
She hurled herself out of the car and tackled him.
They went down on the ground.
Above him, her wings unfurled, and he’d never seen anything so beautiful in his entire life. He gasped, tilting back his head, his mouth full of fangs.
She slammed her hand into his chest.
His heart screamed against his rib cage.
Everything went black.
xiv.
DAHLIA WRESTLED HERSELFinto control, somehow.
Her wings were still burning, and she was still hungry, but she could see that Niles was hurt, and somehow, she made it stop.
She let out a breathless sob.
“No,” she said, hands fluttering over his bare chest. “No, no, no.”
He wasn’t moving.
Luckily, during the raven mocker episodes she was wicked fucking strong. She picked him up and tucked him into the back seat of the car. She shut the door on him and checked his pulse.
It was beating. It wasn’t even slow or out of rhythm or anything…
Fuck.
Oh,fuck.
Tangles and briars, briars and tangles…
She murmured breathless pleas to the benevolence of Nature itself to save him, not to do this to him, not to havemadeher do this…
Then she drove back to her apartment and carried him into her bedroom and laid him out on her bed.
She stood at the foot of the bed, just staring at him, worried.
