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"You like what you see?"

Her gaze drifted back up his abs and chest to settle once more on his face Oh, yeah

Good Aloud, he said, "Okay, so … what do you want me to do"

She nodded slowly "I want you to pop the cadroen I need your hair free I needslohich had the wonderful effect of flexing a whole lot of muscles up and down his arms and across his pecs Even his abs tensed

But his hair was still wet "You showered? When did you have time?"

He chuckled "I’m fast And I have connections"

"You et back to you Nohat did you have in mind?"

A knee came up His cock moved

Oh, God

Yet even as she looked down at his beautiful nakedness, even as anxious as she was to start tasting all this h her ht, like sos had shifted to a beautiful silvery white shade

And there was power A lot of power As well as a sense that destiny washis life and his path

That she was part of his path seeone with hi to a place she hated, because she’d believed she was necessary, and so she had been She had kept Leto fro Grace to his lair

She was necessary

She closed her eyes and lifted her face skyward She held her hands out, palms-up, and the future was simply there: Thorne was on a pro the future arrive like this, without even picking up a ribbon of light Her heart swelled as she looked at hi behind hier as he stared toward the horizon The western sun cast a fiery glow over his face

How ers, and the vision dissipated She opened her eyes and looked down Thorne had hold of her hand

He shook his head "Not now," he said "You s to od-like man also faded away She blinked What remained was the ache in her chest because she did love Thorne, so very ht that lived in her heart

The breath she dreas ragged and it took her a few more seconds to shake off the effects of the vision and to come back to this moment with him It helped, of course, that his body was laid out before her

As her gaze roved hiown, letting the whole thing fall all the way to the pavers She was barefoot and she’d gone coaze drifted over her breasts, down her abdohed, and the air once rew spicy with his male tobacco scent as he leaned back on the chaise once s quivered and she couldn’t exactly breathe Cherry tobacco had a sweet scent, so, and now here it was coain, but she lifted a hand and shook her head He eased back down

Had she ever really seen this man before?

She approached the side of the chaise and smoothed her hand over the thick pads of his pecs, to the well-defined abs and the strong lines of his lower abdoers down his thick stalk, then over his legs, which had a fine dusting of hair

She climbed onto the chaise next to him so that she was on her knees She put her hand on his upper left thigh and stroked down to his ankle His shinbone was sharp, his hened fro

So this was Thorne, the man who had made love to her for a century in the confines of that slided her hand up the heavy ers to define each one She leaned down and kissed his left thigh and licked hiroin, she pulled back and looked at hi erection and at the heavy sack thatheavily She wanted to take hih she didn’t quite understand why

She felt so different with hi hi, after-battle lay He was Thorne Thorne Leader of the Warriors of the Blood and her breh, her bonded ht as she hadn’t needed him before He was the anchor that had first helped her keep the vision at bay then who had pierced and released her obsidian flame power

She put her hands on his abs, leaned up, and pressed