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H-A-W-K-E

All five letters, one in the space between each rung, still there but completely surrounded by leaves and roses so it's almost unreadable

She didn't cover my name

My gaze slams back to hers

Chapter 18

Vale

Unlow bluer than I think I've ever seen them I expect a tender sentiment, maybe a staterowls, "Fuckhis hand firain, ht to me

"Getwith urgency

I don't think to question My hands pop the button with ease, slide the zipper with practiced efficiency I push the deni underwear beneath My name flashes almost as if it's drawn in neon ink, cursively written over his right hip bone I wonder what it says about this ive ain--that he kept that tattoo visible Why not eradicate it? Why not cover it? Why leave it there for other women to see?

I banish those thoughts because there's no room in my head for the its steely war with need

Need to be inside of me I know this is what Haants, and God help , consequences be da full well that the asm

I rub the tip of hiroans when he feels my wetness

I position him just so and--

Slam

All the way in, to the root My back arches off the bed and I cry out with a mix of pleasure and pain

"Fuck me," he whispers for a third tiainst mine "You didn't cover my name"

"I couldn't," I whisper back to hi tentatively to his shoulders

He needed to hear that Not only di

d he need to see it, but he needed to hear the truth ofthat held suchWhile I'm sure this provided much confusion to his mind, because let's face it--I cut him loose but kept his na me swiftly and with purpose

Hawke pounds my body, eerily reot that tattoo Raer, do from hips to cock to deep within me For the second time, we have sex without protection Like we've done oh so as to the affinity we have for each other, co every last bit of resistance within us

If I expected Hawke to let his blood cool and his ardor to soften, I would have been rinds his pelvis against me He looks at me soberly "Tell me the truth I want to knohy you did it"

My face tilts to the side, hts But Hawke is having none of that As swift as a snake striking, his hand grabs s my face so I'm forced to look at him

"Eyes on me, Vale," he commands "And tell me all of it"

I know it's time for us to put all the cards on the table, but I' me I intend to tell him and I don't need to be forced

My hands cohty heave I try to ry "I'll tell you what you want to know but get off me Give me some space"

Hawke looks slightly chastened but doesn't ainst his chest and reiterate "Get off Let me sit up"

With a frustrated sad sigh, Hawke pushes off, slides his half-hard dick out ofhis feet into thethe zipper into place but not bothering with the button While I scraed, he merely rolls to his side, head cushioned in the palm of his hand with his elbow on the mattress I self-consciously pull the sheet up over one, particularly now that Hawke is fully dressed Hawke reaches out and pulls it off ht now"