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I slid one arht frame, and rolled her to her back as I rose above her Her lips parted, and she murmured as she shifted underneath me

Her Thighs Fucking Parted

I put one of my own between them God, she was so small, so delicate So breakable next to o?

Keeping her cradled beneath me, I filled htly, then ainst the soft skin of her neck She sood and right in the world—everything I’d never have Fuck, she’d never felt this real before My cock pulsed against her thigh in agreement

She shifted again, letting loose a s ently just beneath her jawline like I’d fantasized every time she stuck that chin of hers in the air atand stubborn as hell, kind and sweet, then salty and harsh, delicate in one breath and a force of nature in the next—she was all of it

The one thing she never was? Mine

The only place I’d be good enough for Persephone and the only place she’d be safe with me was here—in my dreams

She whi awake, but when I ers in ht where I was

I took the hint and put ainst her throat in an open-roaned and swept htly at the patch

She shifted her thigh, lifting her knee so she rubbed against my hip

“Cannon,” shein my hair

Fuck Need, hot and insistent, raced down h, and the heat I found there set every cell in my body on fire