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Maybe she was an odd vampire Or s aive themselves permission for vulnerability, since humans weren’t a threat the way their own kind were

Like how hu confidence with the analogy They believed they’d do anything for their belovedhouse, and the dog was trapped in a back room, the undeniable survival instinct would kick in, claim superior value That huonize over the creature’s inevitable pain and fear in those final ate her for it, as they would if she left a human the same way

Well, that was a pretty crook thought Maybe others wouldn’t castigate her, but what if her conscience knew the pet was a far nobler creature than the faithless master? God, she was out of her eles she did know

“I can’t love you, Dev,” she said, more harshly than she intended “You can’t hope for that” Her voice faltered, though, as his mouth hovered a few inches above her lips, which were already parted, not only with the words, but her eager need

His green eyes never left hers, but his thuht, love I can’t love you, either

You’ll have what I can offer, though I won’t hold back on any of it, as long as I’ that as the heat of hishis neck with her ar her back to the cave floor, his weight pressing into every curve of her body with lean, sun-toughened skin and cordedher body strain up against hirowl and a plea clogged the back of her throat as his enors, a proive to her Her core was already aching for that sweet split between pleasure and penetrating pain

Indulging herself, she pushed his open shirt off his broad shoulders She liked his aborigine tendency to wear clothes as a second thought only, at least his shirt His heat burned beneath her fingertips, the dampness of his nape, the brush of his abdomen A silken spear of hair arrowed down it, the ainst her own hairless body As if ers, having opened her trousers and now playing inside theh

“This isn’t shaved, is it, love?”

His voice was husky, filled with lust in that rough, lad she was female, able to enjoy the benefits of it

She shook her head “Vampires only have hair above the throat”

“It ot the trousers and knickers off her so he could continue tracing her with his fingers A feathery touch slid along her inner thigh noard her knee, then drifted back up Shifting onto an elbow, he leaned over one of her thighs, pinning it there as he eased the other one outward His eyes gloith green fire once he’d settled his gaze fully on what he’d spread open before hiard, but unwilling to ad but the sophisticate she was supposed to be before this uncultured bushine hiht now He looked far readier to ravish her body, take over her senses and then leap up and fight off an army than settle doith sonnets

Bending, he pressed his lips to her inner thigh, so close his cheekbone brushed her vulva,her hips twitch, jerk He turned his head, slowly nuzzling her, inhaling right up against her flesh Closing his mouth over the entire area, fros wider to accoed to penetrate and sweep between the lips, finishing with a light swirl up over the clit

Young vampires, those under fifty, never had carnal relations with a human without another vampire present It was a protection for the hury passion, but to avoid the possibility of cracking the spine with the force of desire She had to re lifted to cla it back down, a gentle pressure, but one that fired her inclination to possess, dominate, control She had to close her hands into fists to quell that When he took one, drawing it down to his h to kiss the white knuckles, he spread the fingers out the way he’d spread her legs She speared the the tendons at the back of his neck and gripping hile with herself Catching her wrist, he lifted his gaze to hers

“Don’t force ret it I’ll make it that much better Lethiers into the rock and gave herself over to his mouth

Holy God, what a ue over a wo them forward in that lovely come-hither motion that sparked the sensitive place inside her In no ti to histo toss froled ain

God, here she was, the least a to reclaim her station, put her mother’s consort in his place, and then address the probleion Master who’d overstepped Council rules Even though she’d be far happier living in this cave for a while, enjoying the adventure of learning how he lived out here, letting him take care of her needs as they ht

Stop thinking Justfeel His hand slid up to her thighs, her hips, and then he was lifting his body over hers, hiswith her arousal