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Her hands trembled over his head as she trans kind of person myself And make no mistake, Rashid, I want it all with you”

He pressed harder into her, as if testing her claiiveyou have Everything, princess”

Theher could scare her away

She decided to stoke all that ferocity higher “You mean if at any point I say stop, you won’t?”

His eyes blazed in imperious confidence “You will not want ed his head down to hers, opened her lips over his scar, grazed it with her teeth “Yet here I a to convince you to start—”

She trailed off on a yelp In another of those ainst hisHe was striding across his doht alone then leave to never see hi she’d ever drea true instead? She would finally be with Rashid?

Her fingers dug into his ar, Rashid” He sive lance, he gave a brief nod

He accepted her terms, would abide by them

Elation fizzed in her blood even as arousal thickened it

And that was before he said, “Just re, it was you who asked for it”

Pro Rashid would come later When he opened up to her more Hopefully soon And fully

For now, she would take oneas Laylah had anticipated

It had played to her expectations till Rashid had lowered her onto his bed Then it had diverged onto a totally unexpected path

Instead of continuing his seduction, he’d risen to his feet He now stood brooding down at her

“Rashid, arjook”

Was that her voice? That thick, covetous rasp?

But who could blame her? Thebefore her, proving her ant fantasies of hi away, tossing words over his shoulder “You won’t appreciate me all over you sweaty like this” Before she could cry out that she loved him sweaty like that, would want hied his blunt fingernails down his face, producing a scratching sound that deluged her in a fresh bout of treth sandpaper”

Next second, he disappeared into the bathroom

The moment he closed the bathroom door, Rashid bolted into the shower, turned it on cold and plunged beneath its freezing spray

Gulping down air, he squeezed his eyes shut, leaned his fla the icy needles to pu?