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"But ould she send you ahen you’d saved her life?"

"She had other varown too powerful She was afraid of ift when she releasedme away I was alone for half a century after that I had no one until I found Bastien and made him my own"

"But how could you be lovers if she was afraid of you?"

"Sex between us had grown infrequent by then She said I was cold That while I knehere to touch, where to put ue, how to deliver pleasure, there was no passion in ood-bye and said she hoped I’d find my passion someday"

"And did you?"

Aden looked down at Sidonie, at her crystal blue eyes gazing up at hiled on the pillow beneath her He brushed a length of hair away fro at the contrast between theh next to her delicate features, so dark against her pale skin

"You tell me, Sidonie Am I cold?"

She blinked up at him for a puzzled instant, then her arers stroked his nape "No," she whispered "You’re the sapphire heart of the hottest flame When I’m with you, I feel like the sexiest woman in the whole world I feel cherished and safe" She sed "I feel loved"

Aden froze Did he love Sidonie? Had ht him to this place and time so that he could finally knohat it ain, a tender brush of his lips that beca kiss, a seduction of her er passion, herout to taste hi in hiain, to clai his already-hard shaft drag in the wetness between her thighs Sidonie s wider, thrusting against hiain

"No," she insisted fiercely She reached between their bodies, taking his cock in her slender fingers and stroking hi his tip between the swollen folds of her sex, letting hi cold about his Sidonie, he thought as he as plunged deep into her silky war his cock as he drove in and out He groaned at the satin slickness of her pussy, at the sensual fullness of her breasts, the hard pearls of her nipples

The slow seduction became a demand as his pace quickened He sla itself deep inside her, then pulling out and doing it again Her sheath squeezed hith, stroking hie with her, to tumble into the unknown of ecstasy, to take the chance

"I love you," she whispered against the sweat-slick skin of his neck, her fingers digging into thehim inside her "You’re my passion, Aden I love you"

A rush of emotion answered her whispered vow, a fire that spread to every inch of his body, lighting up his nerves and war as if it was beating willingly for the first time in two centuries As if until now, this moment, it had pumped only because it had to, because it kept hi in his chest, felt Sidonie’s heat surrounding hi hi over his body, everywith electricity His balls tightened and his cock swelled, growing harder and thicker inside Sidonie, filling her so completely he could barely move She moaned, a sound full of heat and desire, and it was his name on her lips

"Aden" She repeated it like a prayer, her head thrown back, her nails digging into his shoulders

Aden growled, his fangs splitting his gury for her blood, for the fever that was Sidonie His Sidonie

He lowered histhe thin wall of her vein and drinking down the s to every cell of his body, giving hi out as his bite brought euphoria instead of pain, heron his shoulder as she tried to muffle her scream He felt his skin tear beneath her teeth, felt the pull as she sed his blood He tightened his grip, lowering his full weight onto her body, holding her in place as she thrashed against the double assault of his bite and his blood She’d never tasted that much of his blood before, never had that connection Aden knehat could be forged if she drank ain in the future A powerful link would be created, the kind of link humans could only try to replicate with their vows and their protestations of love

If asked, he’d have said he didn’t want such a link with anyone So he couldn’t explain why he pressed her face against his shoulder, while he urged her to bite harder, to drink more Why his cock stirred anehen she coainst his skin, as a final orgas and lihtly as he rolled over and pulled the comforter back on the bed, then slid the witharound the office for you"

She didn’t even stir, only cuddled deeper into his e at the feelings tightening his chest He didn’t know if it was in his nature to take a mate in the vampire way, to bind someone to him forever What he felt for Sidonie was love, but forever was a long tirow tired of hirandchildren, and he could give her none of those

But for now, she was his And he intended to keep her for a very long tiht tomorrow"

Chapter Twenty-One

SID WOKE WITH a smile as aher across the sheets and tucking her underneath his heavy body as if she weighed nothing She opened her eyes to find Aden staring down at her, looking like aiain?" she asked sleepily, reaching up to brush a thick lock of black hair out of his eyes

"How are you feeling?" he asked instead, his gaze so intent that itworse than she did

"Uuy and--"

"Not that, Sidonie," he said, though he couldn’t stop the s smile that curved his lips