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Then he felt what she must have felt--hot sparks of pleasure where their lips touched that quickly spread to the rest of his body Itbut that incredible sensation Jaden had never felt anything like it

Lyra’s arms slid up and around his neck, and her body curved into hiainst hiue flickered out to give his a tentative brush The slow burn between theh him like a suing sound that he knew gave away far too , what he wanted of her

She seemed to know, to understand They fell into one another at the saan to turn hotter, hungrier The initial sweetness of the mo beneath the surface ever since Jaden had first set eyes on her When he felt her pushing hi her with hi her so that she was the one on her back Jaden partially covered her, his weight on one hip, savoring the feeling of finally having her beneath him Lyra didn’t seem to mind: her kisses became insistent nips and licks while her hands roa out bare skin The lide of her fingers

Jaden let out a shuddering breath He cupped one s the taut pebble of her nipple He was rewarded with an approving , as did herhis hands with her, drawing out the wild thing that was the natural essence of her being

Letting his own beast surface in response

So this is what it’s like with a wolf, he thought dazedly The vaan to appear on his nor hi His heart picked up the rhyther tangle of hands andcloser to her, of lying with her in the grass, skin to skin It wasn’t until Jadenhard and hot against the very center of her, that he realized how perilously close he was to e and aard roaned The sensation asp only intensified the sensation

He could iine how she would look, spread beneath hiht How she would feel, so slick, so ready for him to move within her…

Lyra’s fingers slipped beneath the waist of his jeans, seeking out the hottest part of hiers closed around him

"Lyra," he whispered

"Lyra!"

The unfa the two of the to see if the dise fro the two of them that the various vampire and olf deities did not find their perfor

"Lyra!"

The second tied to a real person, and getting closer Jaden opened his eyes to see the raw passion on Lyra’s face vanish in favor of confusion and embarrass to quell his very obvious arousal Jaden struggled to find so back some of the heat she’d just allowed herself to feel for him His entire body felt kissed by the sun

Don’t be ashamed of it, he willed her Just don’t be ashamed of me, of this…

"I… Jaden, that’s Siling a little to try to get hi had the opposite effect of what she’d intended Heoff her to rest on one hip on the ground Lyra slid up to a sitting position, her knees tucked close to her chest He noted how quickly she scooted away fro Simon instead of hio too far But he wasn’t interested in rational right now Not with his body screah

Jealousy was quick totoward theet

Simon’s face was dark with concern and suspicion when he reached thehtly breathless quality that indicated he’d coaze take in the picture he and Lyra presented, on the ground together in the dark and fairly ru suess I don’t need to ask if everything’s all right out here," Simon said

Out of the corner of his eye, Jaden saw Lyra flush Fortunately, he had no si to a sitting position fro on one arm "You don’t"

"We were… I was just… Jaden had so out the words so that she sounded even guiltier It didn’t bother Jaden a bit, and he enjoyed watching Simon’s expression darken even further