Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind. Elena, why is Dmitri naked?

he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

You’ll hate me,” she said, her arms locked around him because she couldn’t not hold him when he was close. “One day, you’ll hate me.” It was the thing she most feared. Hand fisting in her hair, he pressed his forehead to her own, his eyes night-glow in the dark. “I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.