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Grabbing the rehts to full She turned toward hiaze

Reaching her, he pulled her to him softly That Jackson put those shadows in her eyes, his blood boiled just thinking about it

“Clio, bella?”

She sed and raised her gaze to hihts, Stefan?”

His first instinct was to refuse, to tell her that he demanded all of her, that she couldn’t hide herself from him, that she was his, scars or flaws and all

He noted the vulnerability in her stance Suppressed all his rily until every inch of her was burned in his brain And turned off the lights

Cupped her cheeks and brought her mouth to his

With her expression hidden from him, with her face only visible in strips and flashes of the h touch, every other sense became intense

The scent of her, the rasp of her breath, the treulfed by her, ensnared

He kissed and stroked her lips, tangled with her tongue until the roar of his own blood was the only thing he could hear

The hot drag of her lips over his, the hesitant slide of her tongue against his, the honeyed taste of hers, it was a feast he couldn’t get enough of

Kissing a woman until now had never been more than a forerunner to release, never more than foreplay And yet, he could kiss Clio for hours, hear the soft mews and moans that fell from her mouth for days Could lose himself in her soft mouth for aeons

He would never have enough of this fantasy-turned-reality that shredded his control He would never have enough of her, so warned hi her, yelled the cavernous chasm inside him

He could never keep her fro his life, his days, his every moment, his every breath

She was already everywhere,hi through the shell he had grown and reaching the most vulnerable part of him

Soon, she would know all of him, she would know his darkest fear

She would kno he had turned against his own nature and buried his heart and his deepest desires so that he could move on in life She would knothe woman who adored him for who he was in Olivia, and Christian for the family he would have with the lovely Alessandra