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She ran

One corner, then another He was going to be… The word annoyed wasn’t nearly descriptive enough The thought increased Kari’s speed Her glow-sticks shone too brightly, beacons in the eerie fog She whipped around a fountain, circling toward the right How had she let Master Z goad her into this?

She shook her head, knowing the answer Stupid Kari How ht corner of the Gardens in a wide clearing, the grass hadn’t yet been cut The cool strands brushed over the top of her feet She slowed and dropped to her knees If she sat on her ankles, only a faint gleaher strands She tucked her glorist between her legs and scohen the light lit her pale skin faintly pink But if he didn’t get too close, he wouldn’t see it

He wasn’t the only one in a badhiht, a round A panting fight from another direction ended in a woman’s shriek and a s started to craiven up? Maybe he didn’t even want her, hadn’t even co steadily closer, flickering through the intervening bushes

She could hear hi her Her heart started to harass He wouldn’t hurt her; her head knew that, but her body…her body felt like prey and wanted to run

Closer He knew she was hiding for he checked each s Her area came next Oh, God Her nerve broke She scrarunt of satisfaction Heavy footsteps thudded behind her Risking a glance back, she saw him, bare chested and heavily noring caution, she ran faster

He closed on her Out of breath, she stu so loud she couldn’t hear hi her around She yanked, and his hand slipped off

She sprinted away Glancing back, she saw he’d disappeared She slowed

He charged her fro therass He rolled at the lasther with his arht hirip couldn’t hold her She kicked at hihed His hard hands slid over her breasts, her waist She slid free and pushed to her feet

He grabbed her ankle and yanked her down on top of hiht inescapable

She squir on her as he loosened his leathers, applied a condom She tried to craay as his i her in place

Fingers parted her folds, probing, sliding into her, her wetness a stunning betrayal

A second later, he ra himself so hard, she cried out in shock She tried to craay fro shaft and from the treacherous pleasure

"God, no, sweetheart You’re not getting away" His fingers dug into her hips, holding her immovable as he harowled "My sub My woman Mine" Each as punctuated by a hard thrust

He’d called her his wo her head frantically, she tried to pull away

With a low snarl, he shoved her knees farther apart and lifted her bottoainst the grip of his big hands, arousal shot through her, every nerve in her body flaed in and out of her sensitive tissues ruthlessly, and she tightened around hi unbearable She keened, unable to stop the sound

A ripple started inside her, like a tidal wave, carrying everything before it, intensifying until she convulsed around hith of the exquisite spash cries of bliss

And then he buried himself deep, deep inside her and caave out, and she landed on her forearrass He still held her hips in the air, breathing in heavy gasps

She felt battered inside and out Taken Possessed His words rang in her ears "My sub My wo in his ears "My sub My wo inter to Buck’s attack and her taunting like the alpha he was He’d had to possess her, to brand her with his scent, his body, his cuers wouldn’t release their grip on her soft hips

He didn’t want to release her Ever No matter how often his mind told hi him back

His own expression came back to hi to teach her to look past her inhibitions Hadn’t done a hell of a job following his own advice, had he? He’d been too busy looking to the past