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As he carried her from the roohtly as he held her More tears seeped fro down her cheeks

She was barely aware of hi Sam to take them home All she heard were the murmured words of approval Damon whispered into her hair as he kissed and petted her

"Go to sleep, Serena mine I’ll take care of you"

CHAPTER 23

Serena awoke to the diht of first dawn The room was bathed in pale lavender as the sun stretched and made its way over the horizon

She lay there for a s, content to savor these first fewshe registered was that her arms weren’t bound as usual They were in fact folded over Dalance down picked up on the fact that Da was over hers, and her body was tucked securely in the shelter of his

Unable to resist the freedogled until she faced hiarded her arled into his chest and slid her arm around his waist The steady rhythainst her te it before finally exhaling

She kissed his chest and then scooted her body upward, tilting her head so that she was level with his lips She pulled her arm froh fro her,no move to stop her or to direct her in any way She moved closer until she could feel his breath on her lips Sloith great deliberation, she touched her hed into his mouth, unable to call back the deep content hiotten ashe see to pass on the opportunity

Her hands fluttered over the beard-roughed skin of his jaw, and she kissed a line froainst her lips His pulse jumped wildly at his neck as her htly with her teeth

"Are you seducing roan "Has the slave turned master and te his body until he lay flat on his back underneath her

"I knew I shouldn’t have left you untied," he ret in his voice

"Make love toin her voice "Just us No bonds No ga beside each other"

He circled her body with his ar close to his He clairily There was no casual sipping, no easy give and take He si his passion in a kiss that left her shaken and bare

There was no disguising his need, his urgent desire for her Power rippled through her, arcing in the air, electric and sizzling That he could want her so desperately, just her, not the slave, not the games or the elaborate sche her with his splayed out, hiled in her hair, clutching at her slier asped out

She had to actually think, to try and re back in a stores of how he’d made her feel The pain The desire laced with the fury of her orgasm

"No, it doesn’t hurt Please don’t stop, Damon You won’t hurt me You’d never hurt me"

"No, Serena mine I’ll never hurt you," he said softly as he reclaimed her mouth

His lips slid from hers and down her jaw until he reached the sensitive lobe of her ear He nibbled lightly then sucked it between his teeth When he moved below to claim the tender skin of her neck, chill buhtened her nape

Sheinto his brown hair, enjoying the crispness of the strands as they feathered across her fingers His gaze sought hers as he rose from her neck and thenwild in his eyes Where before he had seeency, a deep wanting in those warm brown orbs that melted her heart

"Come to me," she whispered "Be with me Serena The person, not the fantasy"

He stopped, his body going still against her flesh His gaze penetrated her, dark and forbidding Propping hiers to her lips as if to shush her "You were never just a fantasy to me, Serena mine"

Her chest swelled and expanded with eht up in thea hard ti the two in her mind? Why was it suddenly so important that he want her and not the obedient sex slave?

He dropped his head and kissed her, long and sweet His tongue danced with hers, touching, licking, loving her mouth deeply and intimately

There was a reverence to his every touch, alh he feared she would shatter under his caresses Carefully he ran his hand over the curve of her shoulder The backs of his knuckles grazed the soft skin above her breast and then slid over her nipple

"Are they sore?" he asked as he stopped and thumbed over the point

"A little," she adle"

"Did you like the clamps?"

She nodded

He leaned down and put his ue flicked over the tip as his lips closed around the aureole Her pussy tightened as he sucked in smooth rhythmic motions

With his free hand, he reached between thehs He found her wetness, and his fingers teased over her opening His cock lay rigid against the inside of her thigh, and he opened her then positioned hith was cradled in her folds