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Seated deep, he pu under sweat-slicked skin She tried to raise her hips up tohis next deterrowls of pleasurethe thick heat swelling within her

Just watching his body e Her hands were drawn to hi down his torso

With each of her strokes, with each of his relentless plunges, tension built inside her, spiraling, until she throbbed "Demon!" she cried, desperate for release Her head thrashed as the pressure within her gathered, readying to explode

At last, the pleasure seized her Scorching Boundless "Ah, gods! Malko into his hips, wantinghim even deeper

"I feel you," he bit out between clenched teeth "Feel you co round me" At the last minute, when she was certain he'd reonized yell, he shoved his shaft over her belly,throes

When he collapsed over her, she gazed above hi as she hurt for hirated, "I'm still not done with you, wife"

When Carrooke just before dawn, a cocoon of fog had wrapped around her and Malko Now all was still and soft

Malko He had to have exhausted hi, frenzied - and, she hoped, cathartic - sex

Yet never once had he hurt her

And at the end of the night, he'd turned on his side so he could enfold her in his ar, his voice raw, he'd said, "A witch holds azed down at hi behind his lids His lean cheeks were covered in blond stubble

So beautiful Her wild, lost male How could this deood?

She grazed the backs of her fingers over his face, repeating his words, "Carrow is Malkoet back to her own bed before Ruby woke, she reluctantly extricated herself froh he slept on

She dressed in tattered clothes, thenon the secrets he'd confided, the revelations of all that had been done to hiht be preferable to neglect and abandonht have found out why her parents hadn't loved her

After hearing Malkom's tale, she kne fortunate she'd been She'd been able to find a new fahter

And now a husband

Carroas lost for him She admired him, respected him, loved him

She felt as if they'd turned a corner He'd let out all his frustrations, told her his secrets It had to have bonded theet over her betrayal

But could he get over the rest - the four centuries of expecting and receiving duplicity - without breaking her heart first?

When he woke, she would tell hi to be different She wouldn't tolerate his to her - or about himself He was her husband, and she'd be das, not even Malko forward, she would show him that he was ood woman would heal all his wounds? Counteract years of abuse?