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Hell, Ryan really was trying to be a gentleers spread across his chest with a feather-light touch, the way she snuggled closer to hi over his, the way she softly purred like a kitten in ecstasy, he was having the da their relationship strictly iain, and her soft naked belly was pressed against his hip, her bare leg touching his thigh Was she still so out of it fro that she had no inhibitions? Or did she really want hi to have her?

He let out his breath in a heavy sigh His job was to guard her body, not ravish it After what she’d been through last night and five o, she needed to feel secure and protected So why the hell did he have to keep re had slid up his thigh even further and was pressing lightly against his arousal That’s why

"Carol?" he whispered

She didn’t respond He figured she was asleep and wasn’t even aware she was putting hih all this torture He kissed the top of her head and closed his eyes, trying to will hi hours Like that was going to happen while he kept his ar intimately to hi a backseat to his desire to have her--as a ould have his ers teased his chestup or already fully awake

"Carol?" he whispered again

"Hmm," she finally said, and cuddled closer "Do you ever wish you were human?" she asked softly, almost as if she was afraid to propose the question

Ryan raised her face and gave her a dark smile "I am human What’s on your mind?"

She looked at hi "I just wondered if you ever wanted to have sex with a olf but couldn’t because then you’d be mated for life"

"If I wanted to have sex with her, I’d want her for life"

Carol’s fingers swept across his heated skin again in a tantalizing caress, and now that she ake and fully aware that he ith her nearly naked and not in the least bit bothered by their close proximity and intimacy--

"Well if you were human--all the way--you could have a olf lover with no consequences," she continued, her words still spoken in a hush, as if she didn’t want the world to know she ake or that she was speaking to Ryan or even what she was speaking about

"True"

She rested against him in silence for so, his desire for her growing, despite his efforts to keep his burgeoning craving to have her in check She wasn’theartbeat and the subtle changes in the sweet scent of her, the hint of arousal--and even the way she touched hi with hi for him also

"I wonder how Sam and Silva do it," she said under her breath

"Pardon?" He could guess where this was going, and he was instantly interested, as long as she knehat she was getting into and was just as willing

"Nothing"

"Do what, Carol? You brought it up," he pressed, hoping he wouldn’t scare her off with his enthusiasm

She cleared her throat and whispered, "As hot and heavy as the petting is getting between them even in public, I wonder how they can hold back"

"Maybe they aren’t"

"You mean that they’ve already done it? Consuers paused on her hair "They’d let everyone know if they’d otten there yet"

"Oh" She had to have gotten the picture

"It’s perfectly acceptable" He wanted to push her onto her back to deo with one another before being committed as mates, but he was still afraid she wasn’t ready "We aren’t talking about Sale" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>