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Rogue had never hit anyone deliberately She was an admitted pacifist unless backed into a corner She could feel the corner at her back now

His fingers caught her wrist a second before she couldthat ravenous hunger burning through hiure out why She teers he didn’t want to adaze with his, watching her, seeing the hurt and the anger that darkened her eyes

"I shouldn’t have let you go the other day," he ad to tamp back needs he knew he should keep carefully hidden

"Of course you should have" Disdain and anger filled her voice "That was the biggest favor you could have done ed at her wrist He should, he knew he should He stared into her furious little face and saw the hurt she was trying to hide Pain he had dealt her

"Stop fighting ht her other wrist as she slapped at his chest in her bid for freedom "Settle doe’ll talk about this"

God, he needed her to settle down Now, before he lost complete control

"There’s so to talk about?" Her eyes narrowed on hi in those violet eyes "Sorry, Zeke, but I guess I just don’t have ain It wasn’t a halfhearted struggle; the littlehis hold The harder she fought against hi at the edges of his vision He hadn’t felt it in years, not since leaving LA, not since he had begun denying those urges and refusing to allow himself lovers that kne to push those buttons But never had he had a woue awaken that core of sexuality he possessed

"Rogue, enough" He heard his own voice deepen, felt his cock hardening painfully, throbbing beneath the confinement of his jeans as his balls drew up violently

"Kiss off, Sheriff Mayes," she snarled, lifting herself, glaring back at hier and in hunger He could see the hunger; he could sense it, feel it

Before she could evade hisher jaw He was going to burn in hell for this and he knew it He was helpless against it

His control was so damned thin it was all he could do to hold on, but the do foras another control One he reveled in, one he knew he needed to fight even as he let it have hold

Just for a second, he proo further He’d keep fro her, froeous little body

"I’d rather kissyou "

He held her ar her sto his arousal higher

Damn, she needed to stay still Just for a moment

He held her jaw firave in to the need clawing at his ain was a daure out a way to have her and to hold back that part of hi free

There was no way to do it, he finally adasp, tighten in his ar every da her wasn’t an option Not when her kiss was like fuel to a fire Not when touching her beca Not when the very act of possessing her h hiue parted her lips, pressed forward, and felt her furious cry But he also felt her need She was shuddering in his arling not just against hiainst the pleasure that he could have told her there was no way to resist

This pleasure was addictive Rogue’s kiss Driven with challenge Her teeth would have nipped at his tongue if he hadn’t controlled the graceful line of her jaw Instead, her tongue pressed against his, fought against it, and he felt a surge of heat so blistering it burned away the reainst his need for it He wanted her to fight He wanted her to defy hi her into exhaustion Until there was no defiance, until there was only pleasure

No fear No anger

God, he had to rein back, just a little She was a virgin She had no idea what he could deentle, he had to ht with pleasure The need for that was almost as sharp as the need for her touch As sharp as the need to hear her screa his name

"Damn you," she tried to scream as he lifted his lips and stared down at her swollen lips "What are you trying to do to me, Zeke?"

"Taste you," hehis attention as he allowed his thumb to rake across the lower curve "I’ve spent two days reainst h, Rogue I need h her body The treainst hier in her eyes and the refusal he could see hovering on her lips

"Tell ain and I won’t return," he warned her harshly, his lips lowering again to brush hers as he spoke "Anything is negotiable but that Tell ins"

Her breathing hitched Shadows of indecision filled her eyes as she stared back at him

"Don’t do this to me if you expectwe’re not touching, that we’re nothing to each other I can’t do that I’ and can just walk away from before the sun comes up"