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"You are ed my hopes, but didn’t dash them Need coated his expression, under the worry

Need that I felt vibrating through every inch of my body

"Is that all I airl’s question And I was no girl Not the one he’d had an affair with

I kind of irl She’d been an optireat love

"Ah, ers down my jawline and over aze weighed even more heavily on me, filled with such need that I barely believed my own eyes

Did my eyes reveal the same?

"You never understood the way I felt I made sure of that You still don’t And maybe that’s for the best" He closed his eyes, and when he opened theain, souard was back up

And I needed to put o to bed Alone

But when he lowered his face to mine, almost painfully slow, all I could do was tilt my chin to ht before ht touch I ached for hiainst his lips, but he heldslowly, he tugged offsoft kisses in his wake He pulled off my bra, then knelt in front of me and continued his soft attack on ripped his hair and turned his face up so I couldelse, but I knew he could read the need in my eyes

"I love the way you say h with need "When I’etbut you"

Bet you say that to all the girls was on lib joke didn’t make it past my lips His eyes shone in the dark when he looked at uile

"When you didn’t returnyou back Force you to accept y Convince you to love ripped his shoulders and took a long breath "Claude--"

"Whatever happens You should know that"

Dread rose init Whatever happens What exactly did he think was going to happen? I couldn’t h, couldn’t ruin the one with you If you had come," I said finally

A shed softly "Ah, h it’s too late

He didn’t say it, but I heard the words all the saentle He took what he needed from me, and I took from him Desperate to have his around his waist He carried ht toward the bedroo rooled with his belt, only h for his cock to spring free He pushed his tongue against ripped his hardness Satisfaction swept throughand low

Then, hands on e of the table and thrust into me with one hard, swift motion I cried out at the sudden fullness

This time he didn’t ask His teeth pierced my breast near my nipple, and he sucked the wound and the nipple hard The orgash me as he pumped into me harder and faster with every beat of my heart I held on to his neck with one hand, and pressed the other behind ing into ainst my breast, then stilled

Minutes passed, then he pulledFace buried in my neck, he took a deep breath A fuzzy haze of pleasure enveloped s And for a h this together Maybe we could take down Nicolas and find out what happened to my brother Maybe we could coether

Chapter Twelve

Claude prolad that you overheard thehtensis worse Because they know you’re helping me Even if they didn’t see you, they know because I took you to that witch’s den I’ since he’d knocked on my door suddenly needed an outlet He believed his friend to be innocent, and I hated to s harder for him, to make him question his place in the world But he had to know

He pulledto distract me But I couldn’t let him

"I’ve seen Luc before In a vision I’m sorry, Claude, but he isn’t innocent"