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"All right"

Softly, he kissed her lips, then withdrew reluctantly "When I’ain I feel whole, alive I feel loved No ly until you either Bind to ain or look er love ht, so brave with his feelings That made her feel even more like a coward

"Lucan…"

"Let me finish" He held up a hand, then caressed her cheek "I also understand that I didn’t give you all the loving guidance you needed ere previouslyup I understand now, love God, I wish you’d told me"

A deep flush swept up her body Proper, perfect Lucan knew all her dark little desires? She tried to turn away, conceal her face Lucan grabbed her chin and refused to let her hide Still, she squeezed her eyes shut tightly

"Stop Look atin silence until she colance at hi at her like a crowbar and opening up her soul "Lucan--"

He pressed a finger over her lips "Letcoht not have been able to stop Mathias fro you--and it bloody painsyou needed and told you hoorthy you are of love more often, you would have wanted to come home to me from the first" He brushed her wet hair from her face and kissed her lips softly "Letyou want that I don’t I always tried to treat you so gently You’re delicate, and I often feared breaking you I pushed down urges that I knoould have pleased you I alanted you desperately I wanted to be deeper in your body and soul, but I worried about scaring or hurting you too es now"

She looked up, heropen "But what about…" Hell, she couldn’t ask hi her She hated being a fucking coward, but she cringed at the thought of his rejection

"If it’s on your mind, say it This is the first of what I hope will beyou need I have needs, too" He dragged a hand down her back to cup her backside She shifted on his lap, and his cock hardened inside her again, thick and insistent

A bolt of desire trembled low in her belly How easy it would be to surrender to his touch and just forget this conversation But Lucan was right If they were going to have any future, not clearing the air noould only co?"

His grin widened He lifted Anka up his cock slowly "Absolutely I’ your pretty backside"

Pleasure suffused through her even as she felt another flush rush up to her cheeks, this time with a shy smile "Will you…tie me up?"

"Can you handle it?"

Anka nodded, then ain "Yes! It’s not so Mathias did to ain, agonizingly slow "Fuck, yes Feel led on his lap with a whi perfect control "I know you do But do you feel all the love I’ve kept buried init to you as I stretch you wide so we can join as one again I want you to feel allyou over and over It’s all for you Always for you"

Every slow thrust reawakened her nerves and her need She threw back her head with a gasp

"Oh, you feel so good, love I’ you to our bed so I can do this to you for hours"

"Please…" Her voice cracked as she begged

She didn’t knohere they were headed or ould happen, but she knew that nothing else mattered but him in this moment If he truly loved her this much…maybe he could handle her terrible truth

With a wave of his hand, he turned off the shower, then stood "Wrap your legs aroundout in the enclosure, familiar…but deeper than ever Sure of hi both thrilled her heart and aroused her body With another wave of his hand, one big bath sheet wrapped around them The other disappeared into the bedroo when Lucan took his first step, gravity driving him deeper inside her than he’d ever been before She cried out, digging her nails into his shoulders, planting kisses along his neck and jaw Though he gripped her by the arse and held her up, Anka felt herself slipping--and lacking the strength to clutch hiiven her earlier had revived her, but it was quickly waning, drained by the heavy thru her under

Her suddenly heavy lids drooped, and he kissed herwith every deep shuttle into her body Then the bed was at her back, the towel beneath her, and Lucan dragged her backside to the edge and stood above her

With a leisurely withdrawal, he caressed his way down to her aching nipple "You look exhausted, love"

Blast it all, she wanted to stay awake, stay with him, enjoy this preciousshared "I’y"

"I know But I ache I need"

He frowned as he pulled away almost completely, then eased the thick crest of his cock back between her shiny folds, watching hiroan "God knoant to give you pleasure So ain But I don’t know if giving you release and you sharing your energy with me noise"

"Please Please Please!"

Lucan hesitated, then traced his fingers over her abdo his knuckles over the hard little pearl at the top

The flare of sensation was like a sunburst all through her Anka gasped, her eyes widening He ers and his shaft, both teasing her so slowly and precisely, she had no way to fight it--or hio, love"

She arched with a hoarse cry, grabbing the sheets in her fists and staring at hi "Yes Oh h wailing of her need and pleasure that shattered her all the way down to her soul while her body throbbed and pulsed with a fireball of an orgasue i strokes into her body over and over, slick skin sliding over her own, desperation thick in the air Then his choked cry as he released into her again and the feel of warainst her womb

She reawakened later with her old silk robe wrapped gently around her body and her sister-by-s and fruit, a blueberry scone nestled on the side of her plate