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Helen’s tio after Kevin’s sword and free hiht and she couldn’t let Drake coether without fire would kill him She had to find a way to keep hiive him a future
Drake had said he believed there were other women like her out there and she had to believe it, too She wanted to give him the chance to find one asn’t afraid of fire--one asn’t fated to die so young He could still be happy and that’s what she wanted for hi so that others could be happy and it was tiot a little payback
Helen took a deep breath and forced herself to calht clamp on their connection so that he wouldn’t see her plans Her path was clear She knew exactly what she had to do
Helen went up on her tiptoes and kissed hiue inside for a taste Just one roaned, cupped her hips in his hands, and pulled her against him She could feel his need for her heat the air around him In the space of a few seconds, the kiss turned frory and de She loved the way he spiraled out of control with just a kiss from her It made her feel powerful and desired The potent coht to her head and drove all the darkness away
He grabbed her braids and tilted her head back, holding her in place while his ueher body liquefy and heat This man robbed her of all sanity and made her love it He scalded her skin with his touches andleft but hunger and heat She was burning alive with need for him and she didn’t care This hat she wanted--what she craved Heleft but the two of the froainst her mouth
Yes Inside Hot and hard and thick, just where she needed him to be Helen’s hands went to the button of her jeans, frantic to get therowled Drake in a lust-roughened voice His body shifted against hers and awide Drake backed her inside, half carrying her He tossed his keys and the iteiven hilowing in his eyes
Helen knew that same look was in her eyes as well She needed this She needed hihtened her
"I want you naked," she told hi like her own It was thick and husky and the words came out in short, sharp commands
Drake’s eyes narrowed for ato ask her a question, but she’d stripped her shirt and sports bra over her head, and whatever he’d been ready to ask evaporated in the heat of his gaze on her naked breasts "So pretty"
He reached for her, but Helen stepped back "Naked," she ordered "Now"
Drake’s jaw bunched and his cheeks darkened, but he obeyed His sword belt came off first, invisible until it hit the floor Then he reached back, grabbed a fistful of T-shirt, and pulled it off over his head
Helen kicked off her shoes and slid out of her jeans and underhile she watched Drake do the sa in each neath of bare skin as it was revealed When they were both naked, he reached for her with shaking hands
Helen stepped out of his reach, knowing that as soon as he touched her, she’d be lost, unable to think clearly She wanted to look at him, to take in the ht played across the muscles of his chest and arms The way the leaves on his lifemark swayed in time with the breeze outside The way his erection twitched in anticipation of filling her He was beautiful and strong and hers
Drake’s hands were fisted at his sides as he waited for her to look her fill The tight set of his jaw and his rapid breathing told her how ier She couldn’t wait any longer
Helen pressed herself against his chest, letting hi over his ribs She threaded her fingers through his dark hair and pressed wet kisses along the branches of his tattoo Drake sucked in a breath and the leaves shivered under her lips She could feel them move, smell the fresh scent of forest on his skin
Drake let out a shuddering breath and his hands slid over her back One cupped her bottom and the other cradled her head "Give h ruainst her lips and itto maintain control, and she didn’t want that She wanted hi held back No restraint
A siren’s smile curved her mouth as she kissed her way down his chest, over the intricate trunk of the tree, lower to where the roots fanned out over his abdomen She knelt before him and her hands slid over the smooth flesh of his erection in a slow caress
Drake sucked in a breath and his fingers tightened around one of her braids He looked down at her and the golden shards in his eyes blazed with teht to low
Helen held his gaze as she took hied sound, his eyes rolled back into his head, and his hands tightened in her hair
The thrill of feh her as she saw and felt what she could do to such a strong ht hi and his hands ainst her hair as if he couldn’t decide whether to pull her closer or push her away She felt hiather his will, felt a hot pulse of deterh their link, and aon his living room floor
His hot body cas wide Her skin sizzled as his hand slid up her ribs to cup her breast, and with a near snarl, he nipped the skin just above her luceria Sparks of pleasure shot along her li and empty She wanted him to fill her and drive the eet the feel of hiainst her sensitive skin
His hand slid over her belly, leaving a trail of shivering heat in its wake She arched into hi hiers found her slick and ready and he filled her with theers were thick and skilled and drove her to the edge of cli exactly how she liked to be touched She hovered there, at the edge, and soed recesses of her brain, she found the strength to hold back "Now," she begged him
She felt Drake’s powerful body shudder and then he was surging inside her, filling her the way she wanted--the way she needed his close to her body, and let him set the pace He knehat she needed now better than she did and he gave it to her, holding nothing back
He loved her She could feel his love shih their link He didn’t try to hide it, didn’t try to deny it He let her see it--forced her to feel it so she would knoas real