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"Please" She squeezed her eyelids tightly together, her body tense and then tre

"Elizabeth Look atof her lids

"Why are you so frightened? You knoould never hurt you"

"You leave "

He ran a blunt fingertip through her creaainst her will, she arched into the caress, despite the painful tension the angle placed on her arms

"You shared this with Hawthorne, but you won’t with h and abrasive "Why notthe depth of her distress "My husband never saw er stilled, just barely entering her "What?"

"Such things are done at night One must--"

"Hawthorne entleman, one who--"

"Was certifiable Good God" Marcus snorted and reer He stood "To have you for his own, to fuck as he wished, and not appreciate your beauty? What a waste The man was an idiot"

Elizabeth lowered her head "Our e was no different from any other"

"It was completely different than it would have been with me How often?"

"How often?" she repeated duht? Every few days?"

"What does it matter?"

His nostrils flared on a deep breath, his frah his hair, he was silent for a et this" Her shame was complete, there was no ers lifted her chin toto touch you everywhere With ht I’ll take you in whatever manner I choose, wherever I choose I will know you as no one else in your life has known you"

"Why?" She struggled again, completely at his mercy and unbearably aroused Spread for him, she felt the emptiness inside her and hated how badly she needed him to fill it

"Because I can Because after today you will crave ive you Because you’ll trust rowled low in his throat "All these years,hi to his knees, he held her hips and dropped his head Elizabeth held her breath as he closed his h the fabric of her shirt and che her back in silent encourage in rhyth in spasertips stroked from her waist to the ebony curls below Painful tension seared her senses and Elizabeth gasped in surprise

"I will touch you here," he warned "With ue, my cock"

She bit her bottom lip, eyes wide

"You will enjoy it," he pro her lip free from her teeth

"You want to treat e"

His sive you pleasure, I want to hear you beg me for it Why should you be deprived?"

Marcus stood and freed the placket of his breeches Reaching inside, he withdrew his cock, and a heretofore unknown level of wanting had her writhing in the chair He was long and thick, the head broad and dark with the blood that engorged it He jerked his hand along the length and creamy ht of you does to me, Elizabeth? How much power you wield? You are tied and helpless, yet it is I who is at your aze was riveted to his display

"Trust, Elizabeth You must trust me, in all ways"

She looked up and ached at the sight of hied as only a man could be "Is this about your mission?"

"This is about us You and me" He stepped closer, and then closer still "Open your s seized

"Take me in your mouth"

"No …" She recoiled

"Where is the ht of a man’s desire?" Marcus widened his stance until his powerful thighs bracketed the side of the chair and the glistening head of his cock rested directly before and slightly below her mouth

"This is trust," he whispered "Think how you can hurt me, how vulnerable I am You can bitethe risk, because I trust you Just as I expect you to trust me"

Elizabeth stared at hie in the balance between the there, the need For now there was no bitterness He looked so much as he had before, when they’d been promised to one another and free of past injuries He was so breathtakingly handsoer without the burden of his enmity

It was that openness that decided herof her heart and opened her mouth

Chapter 6

Marcus stood in an agony of lust as Elizabeth’s lips parted and she leaned forward to take him into her mouth As she scalded him et heat, his breath hissed out between his teeth His knees buckled and he gripped the high back of the chair with his free hand to reht