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"Don’t unlock your fingers" His voice acted like fuel to the fire already licking ers trailed from my hips up to my waist The pads of his thumbs tickled the sides of my breasts as he worked his way upward

Slowly So, slowly Softly So, softly

My vision darkened; I went lightheaded all thanks to the heat he invoked insideinto a lunatic obsession

I needed his touch I needed to be petted and pampered and adored I’d never been a sexual creature, but now I understood why people hungered for it Why the thought of being taken and worshiped had suchbetweenrey, vivid to colourless My lips parted on their own accord; s shook

Inch by inch he ca with him the scent of smoke and metal

I tensed for a fast kiss A hard kiss But Fox held hi over led and ached;

A small noise sounded in his chest, and I looked harder into his eyes Instead of raw passion there, I saw utter confusion My heart stuttered and once again my protective instincts rose He shouldn’t be confused I would kiss him in that moment even if I had to do it for free

I’d never knoho crossed the last millimetre of distance, but I moaned the instant his lips touchedelse existed but taste

I kept expecting hiue into my mouth, but he did the opposite With perfect pressure, he coaxed ue entered my mouth His taste intoxicated ainst hi up the ue My head swaers loosened until my hands fell tohily slow assault

So switched in him and his lips pressed harder Confidence filled his touch and he dragged h for me to feel the hard heat in his slacks I tippedhie

Slow and soft and coaxing

It was the best kiss I’d ever received, but also the worst It sparked lust and need in every inch of ery My skin wanted to bruise because he needed to touch hts disappeared as I nipped at his bottom lip He flinched, but a second later he copied, his sharp canines piercing my oversensitive flesh

I ripped his shirt Yanking hialloped toward exploding with lust I’d never been so drunk on someone before

Then I landed flat on led my teeth The thick carpet did little to cushion runted in pain Fear, hot and terrible, swa wave

"Top rule Unbreakable rule Don’t Ever Touch Me" Fox kneeled on one knee besidemy spine into the carpet His eyes were cold and lifeless, looking like a hunter intent on blood

I gasped, struggling to breathe I couldn’t unfogto kill rip Scratching, prying, trying to unlock his incredibly strong fingers Clara flashed inhot tears toharder "What did I just say?"

I thrashed, needing air My eyes felt too big for my sockets; hts were scraht tru hith to obey Every instinct boycotted when I forced lethe the instinct to fight back

Only once I’d gone co hiers and stand The instant he letoxygen into greedy lungs

He stood staring, his face black and terrifying

I thought I knehat I agreed to, but I hadn’t I hadn’t factored in his volatile ed--deranged--and every agreeroaned under his breath, sounding like a wounded ani hands over his face He paced away, stalking froful of air, I sat up But I was too afraid to stand I liked being down here, away fro under his breath His eyes flashed fro behind his desk, he snarled, "I didn’t mean to do that" His fists opened and closed with unspent energy "You provoked me At least now you knohat happens Don’t disobey th to stop"

His er rolled off hi me across the small distance between us My heart raced, and I couldn’t look away He entrappedhavoc on aze "I’ off the stupid heels to stand barefoot on the silky strands of the carpet Better to run Better to flee "I didn’tise, but his re in his muscles He watched me warily as if I’d run at any ently For a man ore violence as his true identity, my mind couldn’t co a shaky finger over nore the aardness, the strange deterue If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that it’d been his first kiss

Testing, learning, figuring out how to do it

My eyes widened, staring at Fox The concept of hi anyone seemed completely absurd This male didn’t kiss He plundered and took

So why did I kiss a co in front of ain my heart popped with little bubbles of despair The tenderness of a h his inner turive him a person to confess to, lend an ear and nod in concern--to share his burden

Because he was burdened Heavily

His gruffness and scar didn’t scare me He spun a lie and the stench of untruths never worked on me

Flashes of eainstaround ht?"