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He wrapped his fingers around her wrist Beneath his grip, her skin tingled, but she was too busy reeling from the ferocity he displayed to payto fuck you"

Shock rattled her for ato make sense of his words

That wasn’t the way Nika would have worded it, but she found his harsh language didn’t put her off In fact, that slow, si heat inside her that had started when she’d fondled hi her feel war love to her, and that idea thrilled her to her toes

"Okay," said Nika, sounding breathless

Madoc blinked "Okay? I say I’ to rape you and that’s all you have to say?"

"It wouldn’t be rape"

"The hell it wouldn’t"

Nika had never seduced a ht work

She let go of his luceria, slid her hands over his shoulders, and straddled his lap The hehs Madoc looked at therabbed the couch cushions on either side of her, gripping the fabric as if it were the only thing keeping hi with you," she admitted "Not at first, when I was sick, but lately, I’d hear Paul and Andra going at it, or see another couple looking at each other in a certain way It alwaysthat so I won’t take you hoh God only knohy you want to be around et over yourself and realize that I have opinions of ile shell of a woman you left behind last year"

"This isn’t funny, Nika"

"No, it’s not It’s sad, because you’ve been afraid of so that wasn’t a problem"

"The hell it’s not a proble about I bet you’re still a virgin"

"Yeah So?"

He lurched up from the couch, set her down, and ait ard, and he kept that sheet held in his fist so tight his knuckles turned white

With his eyes wide and his jaw clenched, he said, "You need to leave"

"I thought we’d just decided I didn’t need to You don’t have to be afraid to hurt me anymore I want to have sex with you"

His whole body clenched like she’d hit hi her his back "Leave Before it’s too late"

Instead, Nika walked up to hiainst his wide back Beneath her cheek, his whole body vibrated with tension "I want to stay"

"I’ins"

"If that’s really such a big problee boys downstairs, take care of the probleossip that they don’t take long to finish"

He turned around, but she didn’t let hio He spun inside her eainst her belly Those tinglies started to expand into sonore

"You do that, and Joseph will have to executeShe could see the fury in his face, feel it shi in his body She remembered the black mass of his soul--saw it reflected in the ferocity in his eyes, and knew that she had to do so to fix it

Unfortunately, she had no clue what that so is that you don’t want in forever?"

"Works for me"

"Are you really that selfish?"

"I won’t be alive er Just wait until I’ you any stupid proh of et in the way ofyou’d remember fondly"

"How do you know? What if you’re the only man who can ever touch me?"

His eyes squeezed shut as if he needed to block out the sight of her "Please Don’t let me hurt you I don’t want to hurt you"

"You won’t This feeling we have for each other, it proves I’ for so e touched I’d say this counts"

"Then why didn’t my luceria come off when you pulled on it?"