title: Midnight Burn: a New Adult Paranormal Romance Novel (Gothic Angels) (Volume 1)
author:  Ashur Rose 
description: <b>EXCERPT</b><br /><br /><br />Iain had disabled the keypad to her building with a simple yet effective technique: he'd punched a hole in it. He smelled his way to her apartment, her black currant scent leading him to door 17C. He poised his hand over the door, ready to give it a rap, when he withdrew. He'd scared her away twice already. He didn't want to look like a fool a third time when she answered and found him standing there. He grabbed the knob instead and gave it a turn.<br /><br />Locked.<br /><br /><br />He stood there for a second in complete silence, his face flushed and mere centimeters away from the door as he listened. He could hear everything throughout the entire building: the baby crying on the level beneath him, the man quarreling with his son, the Latino couple praying. But no sound was greater than the breaths on the other side of 17C.<br /><br /><br />His core began to hum with his spectra. Her pull nearly brought him to his knees. He held onto the doorframe, his body tauter than piano wires, as he tried to regain control.<br /><br /><br />"I can hear you breathing," he managed in a low, gravelly voice. He thought of those breaths, her lips. How he wanted nothing more than to possess both.<br /><br /><br />His body spasmed at the thought and the doorframe splintered under his grip.Her feet shuffled across the floor. His pulse quickened. He couldn't handle another one of her disappearing acts.<br /><br /><br />"Don't go," he said, realizing the desperateness of his tone. "I only mean to talk to you."<br /><br /><br />A long pause. He took her hesitation as a good sign. She was considering him.<br /><br /><br />"You didn't come all this way to talk," she finally said.<br /><br /><br />Iain smiled through the strain. The woman was smart.<br /><br /><br />"Leave and things won't get bad for you. You saw what I did to those demons. Don't make me hurt you."<br /><br /><br />Iain rolled his shoulders against the building tension. He could barely move his neck against the pressure. It took effort to keep his voice level. "I can't do that, Lilith."<br /><br /><br />"Don't use my name. You don't know me."<br /><br /><br />Her kiss had said otherwise. She might not have known the extent of their connection, but Iain was sure she felt something. "Does your chest burn?"<br /><br /><br />Another long pause.<br /><br /><br />"Back off."<br /><br /><br />The muscles flexed in his jaw. There he was gritting his teeth again. The second time tonight he'd let his frustrations get the better of him. He took a step away and paced back and forth, assessing the situation as much as his spectra tensing all his muscles would allow.<br /><br /><br />A door.<br /><br /><br />A door was all that stood between he and his pure. Three inches of wood and chipped paint, and not to mention, the most willful woman this side of Empyrean he'd ever met. He'd laugh if his body weren't so tight with need.<br /><br /><br />"You've been warned. Leave!"<br /><br /><br />Iain looked at the door as if his stare could burn it down.<br /><br /><br />He didn't want to do it, but what choice had she left him? If she wasn't going to open the door for him, he'd go with the alternative.<br /><br /><br />So he reared back and kicked the damned thing in.
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  Reclaimed
  
  
  By Kim Faulks
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Copyright © 2011 by Kim Faulks 2011
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-9871841-0-8
  
  
  
  
  
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