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"Don’t you trust ently to the area he’d just bitten He licked her, suckling gently to soothe the hurt "Do you think I’d do it?" The words were reckless That was precisely what he wanted to do To put a knife to her throat and spill the sweet blood beneath her skin To drink it down, to assuage the hungry ache that never completely left him

His hands quivered as he cupped her backside, lips brushing tely over the smooth muscle of her trapezius He wanted it so badly, the scent of her fear sending hunger crah him with iron claws But he was better than that He could control this He would

Mercury’s hand slid over his throat and down his chest "I don’t know," she whispered "Would you?"

Lynch pulled aith a gasp, pressing his forehead to hers Sing hard, he fought to rein himself in He’d never been this tereatest fear and his own secret agony "I want to," he adhtens you"

"I ain’t food," she snapped

"That’s got nothing to do with it" He shook his head and dragged his hands up to cup her face "I want you I want to claim you asher lip, her chin Lower Pressing his face to her cheek as he ers locked around his wrist "Like a thrall"

"No" He trailed his mouth down her throat and felt her head drop back stiffly She was clinging to him, as if to hold on to some semblance of control Lynch’s lips rasped over the bitethe imprint of his own teeth "As mine"

"You barely knowabout yourself," he deaze back to her flushed face

Mercury’s hands slid down his chest, one warm, the other cool iron They trembled "You scareto what he could do to her

His hands stilled Her fullwith her breath

Slowly, he stroked a thu the wetness on her lips "You scare limpse of her eyes as they darted to his Then she turned her face away, shutting theh "I never expected this" Slowly her hands ran over his shoulders, fingertips trailing over his skin "I should ne’er ’ave kissed you"

"But you did"

"Aye" She leaned forward and kissed his chest Opening herinto the asp at the flare of pain, his hands clenching into fists beside her face His hips gave an involuntary flex, and heat flared through his mouth Need

Mercury’s hips slowly unlocked and then she was sliding down hi over the smooth skin of his abdoainst theon her Mercury slid to her knees, her palhness of the towel, dangerously close to his groin

She looked up and Lynch’s knees alave at the heated look on her face "Do you trustover her lips Slowly she kissed hied member

Lynch’s other hand hit the coluh laugh, alood ten inches?"

His breath caught Slowly, she reached up and hooked her fingers in the towel The tucked end ca rasped over his erection as it dragged free

He knehat she intended Still, he could barely breathe as she slid her pal out to wet her lips

The shock of her hot mouth alh her hair and he thrust against her, feeling the wet glide of her ainst hiht off her eyes

Yes His head bowed in defeat, a guttural groan tearing through his throat She had the upper hand for the ive a damn She was his unholy fascination, simply his in a way that he couldn’t yet comprehend and he needed this so damned much The week’s torment had driven him out of his mind He still didn’t knohat he would do about Mercury, but luckily this didn’t require thinking at all

That hot littlehis breath and the feits he had left Lynch’sas his fist clenched in the wig she wore

"Stop," he groaned

A smile widened over her full mouth and her iron hand fisted around the base of his cock,good He was so close, he needed her to stop, but somehow his lips wouldn’t say the words and she knew it

She’d put a spell on him One kiss in the enclaves like a bullet to the chest and now he couldn’t stop feeling it, no matter what the consequences were