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He hovered over her, giving her the sexiest smile she’d ever seen "I feel so much better now," he told her

"You feel better?"

"Much I love watching you coh, in both hisher as he had before She wanted to ease that need and give hiiven her

Nika felt slow and languid, but she had a seely endless source of power at her coically enhanced strength to push Madoc to the bed

"My turn," she said, straddling hiht with lust, so she bent forward to kiss it He gave her what she wanted, ue with one of his own The slippery er inside her that he’d so recently quenched began to grow again

Nika needed to be filled with hi deep It was the only thing that could sate her need

She was a bit cluether, but Madoc was patient, letting her take her tih she was slick, she still felt the wicked stretch as her bodyher spine,her shake She wanted to just slam down and take all of hi her go slowly

"You’re killing ain"

"Then lethis hairline, and the tendons in his neck stood out, telling her she wasn’t the only one suffering

Rather than argue with him any further, she si she was feeling flood into hiers clenched on her hips and he pulled her down, seating her all the way

Nika had never felt so full She struggled to breathe, feeling heraround hi him in her body and in herhe did, fro of his hair fro fan overhead

He needed her to roan of pleasure Madoc let out was the sweetest thing she’d ever heard He pulled her down against his chest, rolled her beneath hian a slow slide and retreat

The first ti like this There was no pain, no tension, only the slick glide of skin on skin and his hungry mouth on hers

The pressure inside her built She could feel it growing in both of thehts whispered inside hers, knitting theether in a way she hadn’t known existed

His powerful body surged as their need increased She felt that pleasure building inside him as he opened himself up to her The connection between them swelled and pulsed with power

Madoc lifted her hips with one hand, grinding her against hiht tears to her eyes and stole the air fro down Madoc’s body tensed as he drove deep He swelled inside her and the first hot jet of his release pulsed in her core, setting off her cliht as his release filled her The waves crashing over her throbbed in tiether into one continuous blur of perfect sensation It seeone too soon

They were both still breathing hard when Madoc flipped them and draped her over his chest He was still hard inside her, still throbbing in time with their rapid heartbeats Sweat cooled across her back, but her front was blissfully warm

Madoc hadn’t shoved her away this time He was still inside her mind as deeply as he was inside her body

Which hy she could hear his thoughts Not only had he been planning to give her away to anotherto keep her here when everyone else went to rescue Tori

"I don’t care how good in bed you are," she said, pushing herself up on his chest to look down at hi , but Nika couldn’t understand a single word All she heard was the sound of her name in a scream of pain that echoed inside her skull

Tori Tori was trying to reach her

Nika opened herself up and pulled some of Madoc’s power into her so she could find where that contact had coh her body,like it before It cut off her breath and shrank her world down to a pinpoint of light Everything else went gray

She heard herself screahts in her mind

"Tori!"

I’m sorry, she heard her sister sob I’m so sorry

Chapter 21

Gilda had lifted her hand to knock when her daughter’s door opened Sibyl looked up at her, her eyes the saus Gilda already led, her dress wrinkled, which was not at all like her Dark crescents hung below her eyes, dulling their noruess it’s that ti spoken to after suffering her daughter’s silence for so long "What time?"

"For you to die"

"You’ve seen that?" Gilda hated it that her daughter was plagued by visions of the future, but she’d never considered she’d have to endure seeing her own s TooGilda to step inside her suite The frilly furnishings seey

Gilda settled on the dainty couch "I won’t stay long I know things are strained between us, but I felt coed," said Sibyl "I can’t suddenly forgive you because you’ve decided to kill yourself, can I?"

"I’ that you’dlet me hold you one more time"

"I’m not a child You’ve trapped me inside this child’s body, but I’m not a child"

"You’ll always be my child Just as Maura is"

"Maura won’t talk to me about you She refuses"

"You speak to Maura?"

"Sometimes When she’s afraid"