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Lover Enshrined JR Ward 64760K 2023-08-31

A house can be empty even when it&039;s full of people And wasn&039;t that a good thing

About an hour before dawn, Phury lurched around one of the mansion&039;s countless corners and had to put his hand out to steady hih, was he Boo, the household&039;s black cat, was right there with hiuably running the show, as so, not leading

Leading would so not be a good call His blood alcohol level ay over the legal li his teeth And that was before you added on the nu effects of a haystack&039;s worth of red smoke

How many blunts? How much hooch?

Well, it was nowHe had no idea what tih

Whatever Trying to get a tally on the bender would have been a waste of tied-out he was, it was doubtful he could count high enough, and besides, he couldn&039;t really recall what his hourly rate of consumption had been All he was sure about was that he&039;d left his rooinally, he&039;d planned to get another bottle of gin, but then he&039;d hooked up with Boo and started on this walkabout

All things considered, he should have been passed out on his bed He was polluted enough for the lights-out routine, and it had, after all, been his goal Proble, his head was suffering from the 4 Cs of heebie-jeebies: Cormia&039;s situation The Chosen responsibility The clinic&039;s infiltration And Bella&039;s child

Okay, the last one was a human term But still

At least the wizard was relatively quiet

Phury pushed open a randoure out where the cat had led hien territory, the vast here the staff stayed Which would be trouble If he was found wandering there, Fritz would pop an aneurysed their duties properly

As Phury hung a right, the base of his brain started to fire with the need for another hit of red s back when he heard sounds co down from the third floor&039;s back stairwell Someone was up in the movie theater which meant he really needed to beat feet in the opposite direction, because running into one of his brothers would be a bad thing

He was turning ahen he caught the scent of jasmine

Phury froze Cor hiainst the wall, he scrubbed his face and thought of that erotic drawing he&039;d done And the hard-on he&039;d had while working on it

Boo let out a ht up to the theater&039;s door As the cat looked over his shoulder, his green eyes seeetcha ass up there, buddy

"I can&039;t" Try shouldn&039;t

Boo didn&039;t buy it The cat curled into a sit, his tail flexing up and down as if he aiting for Phury to get with the program already

Phury locked stares with the anie

He, not the cat, blinked first and looked away

Giving up the fight, he ran a hand through his hair Straightened his black silk shirt Jacked up his creaht be totally cooked, but at least he looked like a gentleman

Evidently satisfied with the resolve he was seeing, Boo trotted away fro as if he were giving him an attaboy

As the cat headed off, Phury opened the door and put his Gucci loafer up on a step Then repeated And repeated He used the brass handrail to steady his big body, and tried to justify what he was doing as he ascended He couldn&039;t If you were barely in good enough shape to use Colgate, you absolutely shouldn&039;t interact with the Chosen feer officially yours, but who you wanted until your cock ached

Especially given the news he had to share

He got to the top of the stairs, rounded the corner, and looked down the gently descending rows of seats Cor at her feet Up on the screen i a scene

He breathed in God, she sood and for so tonight

The rewinding stopped, and Phury glanced up at the vast screen Holy Christ

It was a love scene Patrick Swayze and that Jennifer wo each other out on a bed Dirty Dancing

Cor into view Her eyes were rapt on as up ahead, her lips parted, one hand resting on the base of her throat Long blond hair fell over her shoulder and brushed the top of her knee

Phury&039;s body hardened, his erection popping a tent in the front of his Prada trousers, laying waste to the tailored pleating Even through the haze of red smoke, his sex roared

But not because of as on the screen Corer

In a flash, he remembered her at his throat, and under his body, and the SOB in him pointed out that he was the Chosen&039;s Prih he and the Directrix had agreed that he would pick another First Mate, he could still be with Cormia if he wanted to, and if she would have hiht in terh he would take another to complete the Primale initiation, he could still march down the shallow steps, drop to his knees in front of Cor to her hips He could slide his hands up her thighs and spread her wide and dip doith his head After he got her good and ith his mouth, he could¡ª

Phury let his head fall back on his neck Okay, this was so not helping to slow his roll And besides, he&039;d never gone down on a female before, so he wasn&039;t sure what to do

Although, he supposed, if he could eat an ice crea would translate pretty da

Fuck

As leaving was the only decent thing to do, he turned away If he stayed, he wasn&039;t going to be able to hold hirace?"

Cormia&039;s voice froze his breath and his steps And had his cock doing push-ups

Out of propriety, he re was not an invitation to act out his on-the-knees, head-between-her-thighs, X-rated fantasy

Fuck

The race, did you need so?"

Do not turn back around

Phury looked over his shoulder, his glowing eyes casting a yelloash of illumination down the backs of the chairs Cor the rays generated by his urge to corace" she breathed

"What are you watching?" he said in a low voice, even though it was perfectly obvious as up on the screen

"Ah John picked thebuttons until the picture froze

"Not the movie, Cormia, the scene"

"Ah"

"This scene you&039;ve chosen you&039;ve been watching it over and over again, haven&039;t you"

Her reply was husky "Yes I have"

God, she was lovely as she twisted around in that chair to face him all eyes andthe gap between therance was so strong

"Why this scene?" he asked "Why did you choose this one?"

As he waited for her to answer, his body strained, his erection throbbing to the beat of his heart What pounded through his blood had nothing to with rituals or obligations or responsibility It was straight-out, hard-core sex, the kind that was going to leave them both exhausted and sweaty and messy and probably a little bruised And to his total discredit, he didn&039;t care that she was aroused because of what she&039;d been looking at It didn&039;t matter that it wasn&039;t about him He wanted her to use him use him until he was drained dry and every inch of his body was utterly limp, even that ever-ready cock of his

"Why did you pick the scene, Corraceful hand went back to the base of her throat "Because it rowl Okay, that was not what he expected her say And duty was one thing, but man, she didn&039;t have the look of a fe up to tradition She wanted sex Maybe even needed it Just like he did

And she wanted it with him

In slow motion, Phury pivoted toward her, his body suddenly very coordinated, the fuzz from all the red s to take her Here Now

He headed down the shallow steps, ready to claim as his

Corht of the Primale&039;s eyes He was aup two of the shallow steps at a ti of that delicious smoky scent and also of dark spices

"You watch because it h voice

"Yes"

He reached out and touched her face "And what do you think about?"

She pulled up her courage and threw out words that s for you"

His erotic laugh was a dark thrill "Feelings And where exactly do you feel ertips drifted from her face to her neck to her collarbone "Here?"

She sed, but before she could answer, his touch drifted over her shoulder and down her arht at her veins, and then his hand slipped onto her waist and curved around, easing onto the sht here?"

Suddenly, he gripped her hips with both hands, leaned toward her ear, and whispered, "Or is it perhaps lower?"

Soht in his eyes

"Yes," she said, barely breathing "But also here Most of all here" She put his hand to her chest, right over her heart

He stilled, and she felt the change in hiuished

Ah, yes, she thought In revealing herself, she had exposed his truth

Although it had been obvious all along, hadn&039;t it

The Prieously beautiful hair "Cornity, she squared her shoulders "Tell me, whatever shall you do with the Chosen? Or is it me in specific whom you do not wish to mate?"

He stepped around her and paced in front of the screen The frozen iether, played over his body, and she wished she kne to turn theup on Johnny&039;s hip, his hand gripping her thigh as he ground hi at the moment

"I don&039;t want to be with anyone," the Primale said

"Liar" As he turned to face her in surprise, she found that the consequences of candor didn&039;tyou didn&039;t want to lay with any of us, didn&039;t you You knew it and yet you went along with the cereh you were in love with Bella and couldn&039;t bear being with anyone else You lifted the hopes of forty females of worth on a lie¡ª"