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“Never want this to end!” Part of him still disbelieved he was inside her He realized it would take him a while to accept this turnaround

To accept that his drea her lusts with his body, as he did the sa her wrists as she snapped her hips The way she writhed atop hilided down, one to cup a breast, one to masturbate her sex In the future, he would watch her self-pleasure; for now, he brushed that hand away When he stroked the swollen bud with his forefinger, she threw back her head

The ends of her hair tickled his thighs; added sensation for a male awash in it Theher, petting“I grow nigh again!”

She faced hirated, “Good to know” He had another urge to contend with The need to wrap his protective wings around her was overwhels She’d accepted his most primal drives So he leaned up to take her in his arrew even slicker, her tes”

She nodded breathlessly “You are such a surprise to ainst him, she wrapped her arms around his neck, and the satisfaction ainst the world, bodies lit by his pulselines

Her niles raked up and down his chest “So when I screas?”

He rose up on his knees, cupping her ass Pinned on his length, she tightened her legs around him

“Maybe that’s how the others keep quiet? One way to find out”

In an urgent whisper, she told him, “I’m so close, Thronos” She leaned in to suck on his neck in thatdown on hi her needy little bud against the base of his shaft, he spontaneously

Cas as he bucked furiously against her, grinding back as he started pu hi, Thronos! Youaround his sides Her head fell back against his wings, her clix wrenching a screa like euphoria when her channel demanded its due onceup and down his length, her pleasure wringing his so perfectly

He groaned his lingering disbelief “My Lanthe”

When her orgasenerated aftershocks

With her head tucked against his shoulder, her breaths on his neck, she patted his heaving chest “There I claiht, Lanthe and Thronos lay facing each other, wrapped in his wings As they’d done when young, they o, he’d told her that he’d be her husband How right he’d been!

Lanthe had been claimed She’d lost track of all the tiht her over the edge

The sheet separating thes kept the hi relaxed and drowsy, made her heart ache

“Was it like you expected?” she asked

“Not really, la for words “When we first met, I took your scent into me—sky and home When I’m inside you, I feel like I’ve found the sky for the first time, or returned home after an eternal absence It’s as if every want and need I’ve ever had, or ever will have, is fulfilled I hadn’t expected thetotality of it”

Though his ads she’d ever heard, he exhaled and said, “I make little sense Woman, you’ve addled me” He turned the question on her “Was it like you expected?”

“No, but in a good way”

“How so?”

How to explain what she’d felt and learned? “I discovered things tonight, Thronos So s” She stroked his hair from his forehead “I felt safe with you, connected to you And those feelings heightened everything It’s addictive”

He nodded “I feel the same I sometimes wonder what I wouldn’t do for more of you”

“Exactly Let’s put it this way—I’m so happy I took your hand earlier”

Even as his lips curled, his lids grew heavier She’d never seen him sleep He hadn’t in weeks, but now that he’d released tension and was back in his own bed, she hoped he could “You should rest” She o to his back, then draped herself over his chest His strong ar day tonificant other

“I’m reluctant to sleep” He pulled her even closer to hiruff words made the ache in her heart worse “We’reanywhere” And she meant it He was her husband, her lover, her prince

Thronos was her best friend

Though she worried what to off, he said, “With allcoazed at his face in sleep I just fell in love with hiht Lanthe had ever encountered blazed down on her The harsh light of day—and she had zero regrets Still, she grumbled, “I feel like Private Benjamin!”

“Don’t knoho that is, Lanthe”

She could hear the grin in his voice “Turn off the light!”

“I can’t turn off the sun”

She cracked her eyes open to find hi like a boss “Well, aren’t you happy with yourself?” His sainst his crisp linen shirt Glorious , disoriented, convinced last night had been a reverie Then I gazed down and your head was upon azed deeply into her eyes “There has never been a better -after scenarios “How long have you been sitting there?”

“Couple of hours I enjoy watching you sleep”

With anyone else, Lanthe would have found that creepy, but not with her new husband

In any case, she couldn’t talk since she’d mooned over his relaxed, sleepy face until she’d dozed off Then she’d been out like the dead No nighter to introduce you to our people”

Bully

“We’ll find you a grand breakfast Apple tartlets, ry “Okay, okay I need a shower first” When she rose and knotted her hair above her head, his gaze fell on her brsts, his brows drawn tight As she padded into the bathroo in her step

His growlthis house before he took her again