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She eased down on thebranches of the tall elm tree Now that she ay from the bustle of preparation for the ball, doubt raked at her Maxwell and Marcellus wanted to share her How could they feel so? Surely such a desire was unnatural

They were handso, honorable and sensual Eht of both of the her She bit her lips nervously They ether, it ered for thehs She was slick and wet She waited in tense silence for the heavens to rip apart and the bolt of lightning to spear her for her wanton thoughts When nothing happened, she glanced tentatively into the sky It was as if the clear blue sky on a winter hts

She needed tirips with herself and her desires They were explicit, tor her together She should have felt shaht But she understood how precious life was, how easily one could be laughing, dancing with a beau, and the next nursing a wound infected fro and plead with doctors to save them

Maxwell said they hungered for her, both loved her, and God, she feared she felt the same for both of them

Did she have the capacity to love two men? A harsh breath puffed from her lips Emily knew she already did, but it was so unseemly Lover to two brothers? She doubted she could, but then that would mean she needed to choose Confusion rose in her What did it mean if she stood firether, Marcellus would feel it She could not believe such a thing was possible

Everything in her clamored to flee for a few days to escape their intensity She had not gone down to dinner the night before and had taken breakfast in her roo away froo, that hat she had done She had fled from Marcellus’s intensity Maxwell had pursued and charmed her, and she had fallen in love with him

Ever since Maxent to fight in the war and the duchess had contrived to have her stay with her, she had avoided Marcellus’s overtures She had fled fro, and she had hardly been ahen he broke down her barriers She had always run fro, everything was too fleeting, and she couldn’t leave without seeing him Before she made a choice between them, she had to understand It shook her that it wasn’t Maxwell’s arms she currently yearned to be around her and that it wasn’t his words or explanation she wanted to hear She would have never iined that the arms she wanted to be wrapped in would have been Marcellus’s

Marcellus pushed back the doubt that tried to cripple hie painfully through the snow The lush ripeness of her lips was flattened in determined lines, and from the way she ht The relief he felt aloing to her after Maxwell communicated what had happened

Marcellus had been slowly exa her to marry Max, and Marcellus would stay as far away from her as possible If she refused him, he would hardly have any other choice It would be hell, but he’d conceded it was a hell he illing to accept

The days she had been with Max had been the sweetest torture Marcellus had ever felt He then realized the closer he was to Max, the h their connection The first day when she had fainted, and Max swept her away, after explaining everything to his franticthe countryside For hours he had only felthe had wondered if the bond orking properly

He had learned differently that night The closer he was, the s He’d aliven him that satisfaction as yet, so he had al over Max’s cock Pleasure had streaked through Marcellus’s veins and owned him as he felt every kiss of her lips, every scrape of her teeth, and every wet glide of her tongue The feelings had been too intense even though it had been an echo of what Max felt, enveloped by her sensual lips Marcellus had felt the softness of her skin when Max touched her reverently She was exquisitely curvy, with high, full breasts and rounded hips that he caressed through Max’s touch Marcellus had becoive her up, he could not reside in the same county

He waited as the clock ticked thehim He controlled his s the snowflakes froloves, and coat, brows furrohile she looked at hireen eyes orried, her expression soainst it while her eer, frustration, and desire He shielded his thoughts, waiting for her to reveal her intentions When she did, it felt like an iron fist to his gut

“If I only want one lover, can you live with that? Maxwell makes it seem as if it is impossible”

Marcellus struggled not to show the feelings that ravaged him and considered the emotions that roiled in her eyes

“I love you, Emmeline If Max is the only one that you truly love, I will step aside It will be painful, but I will”