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"I will never touch you that way I will never lay hands on you--I will not hurt you, Camille I’m sorryI wish I could wipe ahat he did, but at least I can help mend the scars"

The catch in his voice broke my heart I was not the only one who’d been hurt Hyto had done his best to destroy both me and his son He’d made Smoky feel helpless, feel like he could not protect his family He’d ripped at Smoky’s very sense of self We would have to mend each other’s wounds

"My love, kiss ry for his touch He hesitated, but I pressed ainstback in the bath, with hiainst ry and desperate to reconnect

"Caently dipping into the water to gatherto dally, wanting him to reclaim me, to leave his mark on ainst his chest, and he lifted both of us out of the tub

My legs still wrapped around his waist, he carriedand wet, into a chas waited I scarcely glanced at the roohtstand, I saw a picture of ht of a picture of ht Trillian into thepicture

"Smoky, don’t ever leave me," I whispered into his neck, as we stood by the bed

"You’refor me "Ride me, my love Take control--it ently--ever so gently--lifted ht me down astride his hips

"Hold my arms," I whispered, and twothem wide so my back arched Held fir belowme wet I could barely stand it

I lifted up and found his eager cock and then, with a wanton cry, slid down on hi me wild as he thrust himself into me I was so slick and he was deliciously thick and wide that I let out a little shriek, squirh an torhythms

His hair stroked my back, my sides, my face as he reached up and cupped one ofthe nipple With his other hand, he reached around, fingering er A white-hot flaroan as I rode hiain and again

We were flying I openedoutside the e rocked And all the pain, all the anger, all the fear dropped away as we soared As we reached the zenith, it started to snow

"S hard and fast--asm of release

Chapter 23

By the time I finishedsilver dress to wear It was his round, but her chah so that it looked halfway presentable I was also bustier than Vishana, and as I glanced in the mirror, I couldn’t help but feel that I looked like a wanton love goddess in a a

"I can’t wear this! What if Hotlips is at the Council?" I turned to S Hotlips had been his fiancée froed to buy her off

He smirked "Is her opinion really of any importance to you? It’s not to me But as you wish" He motioned to the reen dragon "Find so that truly fits her, please"

"Yes, Lord" The maid vanished out of the room

"She doesn’t talk much, does she?" The woman had barely said a word to me since she’d come in and found us in our second bath of the day Her eyes had gli other than to curtsey and greet me as So, her father accosted my mother The Council sentenced his family to serve my mother until the day she dies Mother chose to train a handful of hters and leave it at that She could have the whole damned faes"

"Life in the Dragon Reaches isn’t easy, is it?"

"No" Sain by the time the maid--I never did catch her name; maybe she didn’t have a public one--returned She carried a dress similar to the one I’d tried on, but it was shorter and fit better I slid into it,at the weave of the fabric It ar to almost float like silk around ave her a war froe platter filled with meats, cheese, and bread We ate silently

We were just finishing up the last of the loaf when a soft chi for o That’s the sound that means the Council will convene shortly"