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At the peak he dreay to watch her, his Janaan, his heart andher fill of hinanimous with her captivation of hi down the vortex of pleasure, crying out her love, convulsing around hi his release from his every cell, he joined her, spilled his seed, branded her as his forever, only sorry that he couldn’t give her another child right now
Then there was peace For the first true time in his life
Their union had started with their first eye ether
He lay curved around her, his lips traveling over her neck and shoulders, her hand luxuriating in the evidence of his love growing inside her, pride blazing through hies of forever
Her quivering finally stopped, her caresses, too He groith deprivation, took her hands back to his body, urged them to resurow in the perfection again He drew himself up on one elbow
“Malek—this was a lapse …”
His heart contracted at her choking stateic to grasp at here He gathered her tighter to his body “The most powerful inti, peach-flushed, her eyes turquoise in the bedside light, slu of pleasure, bleak with the ad if you don’t leave me alone I knohat you came to offer me, and I can’t accept So, please, leave , about to consu my child, you say you’relove with ? What is this? Pregnancy hormones?”
She turned her face into the pillow, bit her lip to stop its tre not to intrude in your life, take you from your duties and your wife I can’t be the other woman in your life It will destroy me as it destroyedbeauty and poignancy to hirow a thick scab over the wound to live with it, but if you keep reopening the wound, letting the hunger bleed out, it will keep eating at us until nothing is left I want to have your baby, Malek, I want to be whole and strong and nurturing Please,, howinside his head in chaos “What are you talking about? What duties? What wife? You said—at least implied—that you’d seen the ceremony! The ceremony where I abdicated and handed the crown to my cousin!”
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Jay was convinced now This was all a psychotic breakdown
She couldn’t have heard Malek correctly
“Abdicated?” She heard the explosive word, realized it had just erupted froe ceremony and … Abdicated! God—how? Why? How could you?”
The distressed bewilderave way to ahed Peal after peal of cruelly masculine rin and iht a reluctant end to his fit
He still chuckled as he trailed a hand heavy with possession over her ripeness “Ahen ya habibat galbi If you only sahat I see now, you’d excuse ain now and explained later” At her warning growl he took his hand off her, held it up “All right As for how, not at all easily, and that hat keptthe world apart with ree to ree on who best to replace me They were so desperate for reed to let me take you as my wife”