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Of course she had A predatory changeling male, no matter how playful, had possessiveness built into his soul

For as long as she kept his interest, he would deive hiht, she no longer had to give Her parents’ o

Sadness ht’ve beckoned, but then Zach slid his hand up to lie flat over her stohts fractured "Zach?"

"Shh I’"

The husky statehs treroaned and reached up to unhook her bra "I want to see" An instant later, she found herself standing there in nothing but her panties and a pair of strappy sandals She was in no way ready for the boldness hich he moved to cup her breast "Oh!" She treht of his hand on her His skin was tanned, rawly ainst her creamy flesh When he squeezed, it was all she could do not to collapse

"You’re so pretty, Annie" - he spread the fingers of his other hand on her stoht up" Completely in his thrall, she raised her hand to reach back and touch his face He nipped at her with his teeth, chuckling when she ju to take soht then and there, and when he shifted to scoop her into his arrabbed on to his neck "I’ my muscles?" A wicked s until he laid her down on the bed and rose His eyes glittered the green-gold of the cat, hunger in every stark line of his face She watched, heart in her throat, as he stripped off his jacket, then removed his shirt He was built sleek and powerful, a predator in huhed in unashaet rid of his shoes and socks "Now yours," he said,off her sandals one by one, following each re, slow look up her body

By the tiot on the bed beside her, she was so aroused that she rose to claim a kiss of her own When he nipped at her lips as he see, she nipped back He raised his head, his hand closing possessively over her breast "Do that again"

Eyes wide, she did He purred into her mouth She broke the kiss to stare at hi" He reclaiain, that sign that he was so to her huainst him

"You purr," she accused when they parted

"So do you" Coan to kiss his way down the line of her neck He seeet distracted between the curves of her breasts, leaving her to clutch at the sheets in unadulterated pleasure as he sucked and kissed When teeth becahten into a fist so tight, a single touch would send her over

He blew his breath deliberately across one wet nipple

She shattered, and the pleasure was a tidal wave that de she had When she finally resurfaced, Zach had recommenced his sensual exploration of her body, the dark strands of his hair sweeping over her like a thousand stroking fingers She ran her hands through the rough silk of it, feeling sated and content And happy

He looked up, a lazy smile in his eyes "Yes?"

"Coined she would one day make such a brazen deive her what she wanted

He shook his head "After"

"After what?"

His ansas to keep on kissing her, going steadily lower When his lips pressed over black lace, she treain Then she felt the whisper of so down, she saw her panties being thrown off the side of the bed

"How?"

The eyes that met hers ild, exotic "I used a claw to cut them off"

"Oh" She looked at his human hand "Like a very s attention,her legs to put them over his shoulders She’d never felt so exposed, so vulnerable She waited, sto could’ve prepared her for the ecstasy of his touch Zach liked to take his tiht’ve terrified her except that hehis pleasure with every slow lick "Sweet, pretty, Annie," he said "My Annie"

She discovered she was raising her body to hiswith a sensual bliss that was scandalous in its eroticism He liked it She knew, because he told her so, his voice close to a growl

"I a to bite," he whispered And then he did

By the ti off the bed She exhaled in pleasure as he stripped off to reveal a body hard with arousal

"Look what you do to s He stroked his hands under her thighs "Co it had far more to do with trust than sex But she couldn’t refuse, had the strangest feeling that any hint of rejection fro, she held on to his shoulders and let him support her bottom as her body brushed over the tip of his erection "Zach," she whispered, drowning in the intimacy of his eyes, "you undo me"

His eyes flickered froo"

Breath coed bursts, she lowered herself onto him He stretched her to the limit But she wanted him inside her, wanted to possess him as absolutely as he’d possessed her She drove down and shuddered "It’s too le was deep, the penetration intense