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She cried out as his tongue swirled over the sensitized tip, teasing it until her back was arched in delight Freaking hell It felt so good So terrifyingly good

"Dear goddess," sheas his lips traced the curve between the lected nipple

Her fingers i the heavy curtain to spill over her in a fragrant cloud The satin strands brushed her skin, heightening the heat that poured through her blood

Breathe, Shay, breathe, she fiercely reminded herself, as his hands outlined the curve of her hips and down her thighs His touch was cool, but she wasat her nipple with the edge of his teeth Viper eased his band between her legs and sought the moist heat between thely digging into his flesh as his finger stroked over the sweet spot of her pleasure She was falling into a whirlpool of sensations that were ale of panic in her voice Viper lifted his head to nuzzle his lips just below her ear

"Sssh pet," be softly soothed "I will not hurt you"

"I’ hurt," she rasped

"Then what do you fear?"

She shivered as her hips instinctively lifted to press er

"I don’t know"

He lifted onto his elbow and peered deep into her wide eyes "Trust azed into his beautiful face With his silver hair tu over his elegant features he looked like a decadent angel who had fallen fro voice whispered in the back of her mind You can’t trust a vampire Not ever

Her lips parted, but no was not what tumbled from her lips Instead her lashes floated doard and her arrip

"Yes"

His er pierced her He sed her cry of pleasure as her hips left the led hi could have prepared her for this Not for the s pressure of hisfrom within and she couldn’t ile moment she wanted to be consumed She wanted to be held in the arms of ahis tongue between her willing lips Viper stroked her with an increasing intensity Shay clutched at hi pressure deep inside arched her back

She was close So very close

"Viper"

"I know, pet," he ainst her side until she could feel the hard thrust of his erection against her hip "Don’t fight it"

Her breath cahtened and narrowed to one shier pressed deep within her and at the same moment his thumb caressed over that nub of pleasure and the pressure hit a critical point

Her entire body tightened and hovered a breathless moment out of time And then with the force of a sh her and she was tre from the unexpected force

They lay in stunned silence for a long ainst her own Shay felt as if she were floating As if she had been tossed into a sea of ater and been left to gently drift to the shore

At her side Viper shifted to cradle her face as if she were so soft kisses over her cheek

Unable to athered her shaken thoughts

"Oh freaking hell"

Viper didn’t knohy he was s as he watched Shay seated across the table fro when his body was hard and aching And when he was facing the distinct possibility his frustrated need was going to be an unwelcome companion At least for the next few hours, perhaps even days

But even with his body in rigid protest he couldn’t halt the sht of Shay’s slender forly caressed by the cri down her back and bronzed skin glowing against the rich material, she looked like an exotic butterfly

Or maybe it was the aed to consume in less time than it took for hie that for all of his aching frustration he had ed to breech a wall that she had surrounded about herself She ht have scuttled back behind her defenses, but he no that she was not invulnerable

He had found her weakness and he wasn’t about to hesitate in using it to clai flare of possessive satisfaction raced through him even as he wondered what the hell was the matter with him

Devil’s balls He had clearly lost his h sense left to care

Glancing up from her now empty bowl of soup Shay sent hi what?"