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"I am yours to coripped his hair, harder than she
"You are not You are not a creature, nor are you rew "But what if I want to be?" He lifted his head, and his eyes were ice blu
"What if I want to be claimed by you?" Her heart stopped She still held hiainst his throat where his pulse thrummed Only she could not find the power to speak Thorne rose to his knees, bringing them eye to ey
"Do you not understand?" he whispered "I have never belonged to anyon
Not since I was a child It is a lonely thing to be unclaimed by another The idea that I could be yours seduces me more than you can know" His lips tilted in a dry s to you is by this strange bond, then I would gladly accept that" His expression dimmed "Only now that I knohat it does to you, I cannot let it go on I will not see you hurt" Her grip on hi him closer, until they shared the sa to me in another way It shouldn’t be one-sided, this ownership" Thorne drew in a sharp breath and seeh narrowed eyes When he spoke, his voice was rough, cracked "What do you ed to you as well?" His arainst him as she continued to speak "What if you had my heart?" "As you have mine?" His lips brushed her cheek, his breath unsteady "Do I, Holly? Do I have your heart?" Her s" Thorne moved to release her, but Holly wrapped her hand around his wrist "Don’t go" His expression was soft, his voice a hisper "I did not plan to Let me put you to bed You are tired" She was But she did not want to rest Holly ran her thumb over the pulse-point at his wrist "Willia lit his features, and she knew he realized she needed the corinned "Where?" She found herself slowly grinning too "Wherever you want" "This discussion of your health isn’t over," Thorne said just before he kissed herkiss And then another "Noted," Holly uid warmth stole over her "Good" Thorne nibbled on her earlob
Before returning to her rowl of contentment vibrated in his chest He learned the contours of herAs though they had all the time in the world The silk of her skirts rustled in the silence as his free hand eased them up Cool air hit her shins, then her knees Holly let hihs His breath brushed over her cheek as his palhtened in anticipation, her sex heating as he caled, breathless nois
He cupped her, his fingers roaned low and rough "Here" The blunt tip of his finger breached her, sliding in deep before pulling out slowly In Out "Here," he said again as he kissed her, "is where s wider as she slu brsts and heated skin confined by her heavy satin gown "Here is where I want to be," he whispered "Always" He added another finger, plunging in deep, invading, retreating And kissing her Always kissing her Holly shivered, followed his lips with hers, trying tosome sort of releas
He wouldn’t give it to her, but continued his steady plunder The pad of his thumb found the swollen bud of her sex, and he stroked her ther
The shivers greithin her,outward towards her sensitized skin He drank down her little cry of distress And then he curled his fingers, stroking a spot inside of her Her orgasm rushed over her with such force that she arched back, her lips slipping froripped the sides of the chair Still he stroked, his s, promises of mor
On and on it went, until spent, Holly lurched forward and clutched his shoulders For a moment, she could only hold onto hi her tes "You, sir," she said between gasps, "are a wicked beast" He chuckled darkly and then lifted her up, cradling her in his arms The bed dipped as he set her down In a daze, she let hi it from her body A welcome rush of cool air soothed her damp and heated skin Off cas and drawers, the crumpled corset cover But when he moved to free her corset, she swatted him aeak hands "Oh no you don’t" She eased herself up on her elbows and scowled at his grinning fac
"Not when you are fully dressed Take off your clothes" His grin widened "De miss, aren’t you?" She merely raised a brow The speed hich he disrobed truly was i before her, utterly unabashed by his nakedness And why shouldn’t he be? She’d seen him before, revealed in parts She’d touched nearly every inch of him at some point or other But Will Thorne, viewed all at once, took her breath away Long and lean, his was not a body of brute strength but of feral grac
Beneath sht, so perfectly delineated, that it would take hours to fully explore every crest and dip And she knew she wanted to try The proud jut of his ck drew her attention, and her thighs clenched with delicious heat "You , "the effect you have on the fe towards the bed, to crawl over her Before they even touched, the heat co off his body enveloped her She lay back, and he hovered over her, his dark gazehers "The only female I want to affect," he nipped her lower lip, "is you" Holly nipped hi you desire, love" He let her ease hiainst the headboard," she told hilint in his eyes, as though her orders excited him Or perhaps it was siether "Grab hold of the rails" Her voice was only slightly unsteady The steel headboard of her bed was co his eyes upon her, Will spread his arms wide and clasped his hands around the bars Instantly, the rew pliant then wrapped around his wrists before solidifying once lanced at his trapped arms then turned back to her Holly’s heart beat hard within her chest, and tension gathered along her spin
Would he be angry? Demand release? Think her crazed? A slow, satisfied s within her relaxed "I knew it," he said in a low rumbl
"Under all that starch, you’re as dirty-minded as I as to his chest and araze down to his narrow hps and thick cock, so hard now that it lay flat and pulsed against his tight belly Holly undid her corset and let it fall to the floor but kept her chemise on "Ah, now love," he cohs, "don’t stop ther
Take that thing off" Preoccupied, Holly ran her fingers over his taut chest, pausing to stoke the tiny bud of his nippl