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Her heartbeat ticked frantically in the side of her neck, drawing his blazing eyes The urge to stroke that tender pulse point--to touch and taste every enticing inch of her--nearly overwhelht to keep a grip on those urges When he finally found his voice, it cao All finished"

Seraphina paused, letting her hair fall She turned a glance over her shoulder at hian a quick search for one of the ends of the lengths of silk He tugged it loose and began to unwind it fro to pull free

He swore and shook his head "You’ll have to turn with it"

"Like this?" She obeyed, pivoting in front of hi the tail of it collect on the floor as she slowly spun before hiy brown curls dancing as she turned, the beads threaded through the strands twinkling under the soft lights of the bedroom

He couldn’t take his eyes off her

In so desert warlord and she was hiscaptive His irresistible, stolen prize He watched her spin, watched the ribbon of scarlet silk unwind, revealing more and more of the beautiful wo her

When he looked at Seraphina, when he breathed in her cinnamon-sweet scent and felt the war turn she took in front of hi near her like this, there was sobeat of her pulse vibrated in the small space between their bodies, and it er in a way he’d never fully known

It made him want to burn the pact between their fa or not

Claierous thinking

And a temptation he wasn’t at all certain he would be able to resist

Not for this one night, let alone seven more

CHAPTER 7

She didn’t know the exact ed fro so fierce and powerful, it s stand at full attention

Jehan wanted her

She’d have to be an idiot not to realize that

She wanted him too

And she was too smart to think for one second that he hadn’t picked up on her staggering awareness of hierously seductive Breed ht in his teeth just as swiftly as he could have her legs parted beneath the driving pound of his muscular body

Sera sed hard, her breath and heart racing as she slowed to a stop before hi hands by the unraveled length of red silk

Although she was covered where it counted, there wasn’t much of her dress left Most of it lay on the floor at her feet; yards of scarlet pooled in the scant space between her body and Jehan’s

She licked her lips as she struggled for words She should tell hi fein, no stranger to sex But never with a Breed male And the electricity that crackled to life between Jehan and her was so

Consu in its intensity