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"Lucan!"

"Take it, love" His thrusts picked up speed, punctuating every word he spoke "Take Me Deep"

With every plunge inside Anka, her eyes widened with pleasure Her body softened Her nipples engorged with more blood Bloody hell, her berry sweet lips called to hi the her with his tongue as he stretched her sweet, clenching folds with his cock Every instinct screao

As she dug her nails into his shoulders, an electric jolt zapped through his body He threw back his head with ayou Mine" He bared his teeth and growled at her "Mine!"

She opened her y on her lips He stopped her with a brutal kiss, drinking her in as he sank deeper and deeper into her, losing himself in her utterly When he finally lifted his head, a heartbreaking frown overtook her face, nation He wasn’t sure what she intended to say, but he couldn’t let those words out

"Not a word Now that you’ve chosen ain Take me All of ain, he picked up the pace, hearing Anka’s breathing race, watching her skin flush, her eyes glaze over As her defenses fell and she surrendered, he could see her heart, bare and honest, reflected in her shi eyes

"You lovehim to love her back "You do, but you’re scared Don’t be I never stopped loving you"

"But…" She cried out, part pleasure, part sorrow

"No! I’ain Ever Mine Mine Mine!" He ground deeper inside her with every word

Her back arched as her legs spread even wider for hian to pulse around hile of his stroke to hit that one perfect spot inside her designed to give her total bliss Anka felt the change, gasped when the head of his cock scraped those sensitive tissues

"Lucan, oh my… I…yes!"

Her face said that her head wanted to cease all yielding to hih her brain made absolutely no difference now as her cli they wouldn’t and couldn’t work out, given enough tiether Look aton his "Give it all to me"

He refused to let her look away as herdirectly above her, he fused their gazes together and fell into her, deeper under her spell "Oh…yes That’s it, love That’s right Give "

She ca, as if so much pleasure scared her As many times as they’d made love before, it had never been this profound, so directly froht have finally won back the woman of his dreams and planted his seed in her wo her hips in his hands as she continued to shatter around hionized breath and e body until he felt boneless and replete

His strokes slowed, as did his heartbeats and his breathing Peace covered hihed in contentment as he looked down at the witch he loved ainst hi into herself as tears leaked frorabbed her wrists and firht feel as if he’d scraped her raw to the soul God knew that’s how he felt But no s, conversations they needed to have, emotions they needed to share Whatever they had to face now, they’d do it together

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Lucan brushed daesture squeezed her heart until it bled love for hi"

She nodded, unable to disagree--even as h her Their lovely beautiful But if he could see the ugliness of what she was and what she’d done lurking underneath her pretty surface, all the way down to the lies she’d kept hidden, he’d be horrified Eventually, he would hate her

With a thu to crawl back into your shell, and I won’t have it I love you I believe you love me, too Do you want to deny that?"

She hesitated Hurting him more wasn’t an option, but if she opened herself up totally, she’d only fall deeper in love Still, it wasn’t fair to hi but lies She’d done it for a century, swearing to herself that she’d do everything else possible to make him happy But in the end, all her dirty little secrets had pulled them apart--and alould

"I don’t deny it," she whispered "But please believe me I can’t be what you need"

"What I need?" He rolled to his side and propped himself up on his elbow "Love, I don’t think I’ve been what you’ve needed until right noill search for the rest of our lives to find ways to atone for that But don’t you dare shutwith a note of steel she’d never once heard fro She wasn’t sure where that deep, shiver-worthy voice ca it nearly impossible Still, for his sake, she had to try "Lucan, listen…"

"No, you listen" His eyes narrowed The passion-dark blue that had lured her in o now turned flinty and hard "You chose me over Shock I am the mate of your heart We both know it And I want that heart, along with your devotion and your soul because I’ive you mine in return"

"But you don’t knohat sort of soul you’re getting anyed me He tainted me He usedthat Lucan would take that to mean sexually Mathias had, but that didn’t disturb Anka as s you don’t understand"