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He should be grateful for those centuries at least

Grateful? With a yell, he shot to his feet, throwing his glass into the fire Before it shattered, he'd already sped halfway up the stairs, having no idea whether he'd throttle her, rut her, or just clasp her tight against him

He'dto her call

Why did he always lose, when he so badly needed to win?

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chloe whirled around when MacRieve entered the room, then raised her brows in surprise He looked wasted

He had to get drunk before he could sleep with her? And the dojo dummy takes a hit!

"You look surprised to seehis thick hair "Why's that? You know I' could stopme here"

Aside froe She felt like she was in the room with a bomb about to detonate

His eyes flickered orated with a bitter laugh "Keen on seducing hly be-strewed-could never escape your clutches"

"It was the only one in the closet," she said defensively, but he wasn't listening

"Come then, succubus" He spread his arms wide, his expression inscrutable "Your dinner has arrived, awaiting naught but your consumption"

Hoas she supposed to reply to that? She guessed she should just be happy that he wasn't

When she didn't answer, he shrugged, then started to undress Unsteadily, he toed off his boots, dragging his shirt over his head

Though she ary of his current state, the sight of his muscle-packed chest elicited an irew even heavier, her heartbeats accelerating

"Tell me how you're preferrin' your repast," he said, his accent so strong she barely recognized his voice And his fury-tinged words soundedold-fashioned

He paused with his fingers on the button of his jeans, inhaling deeply "Ah, I think Chloe craves what's in here verra badly"

God help her, she did Her succubus half was cla to feed Don't reach for him-

When he unfastened his jeans and his erection bobbed free, her gaze locked on its rew ue

Once MacRieve stood before her nakd, ain, as if he expected her to fall upon him

Part of her seriously wanted to fall upon him

His broad chest heaved with breaths Between those narrow hips, his shaft jutted proudly His testicles hung heavy beneath it "Is this no' what you want?" When he gripped hi, every fiber in her body tightened with lust

She should be doing the stroking That'swith the effort not to rush him

Watching this was at once erotic and wrong, likepunishment

"How does my succubus mate wish to be deflowered? I could lie back on the bed, for you to straddle my cock Least amount of contact that way And you would no' muss your hair"

Huh? As if she'd ever cared about that

"No kissing, naturally," he continued "Would no' want to se"

Lip rouge? "For real, MacRieve? I don't understand what you're talking about" She siame was Did he truly intend some kind of punish?

In the past, she'd let hi her, but now she didn't understand where he wanted to take them

At her blank gaze, he stopped stroking

"I'lare "You tell ritted teeth, "or I proet I' my beast"

She pulled her robe tighter, protectively "But you said it'd take me on my hands and knees That it'd take me hard"

"Oh, it would"

She shuddered "Have you forgotten that I'ain!"

"Doona want?" He crossed to her with a black look "I gave you a chance to tell me what you want! You declined"

She quickly said, "Then I'd prefer not to have sex at all We can be as ere before"

"No' an option" When he stood before her, he said, "I've sacrificed hly-and one fk closer to being enveno to feed, succubus, and feed well"

She bit her lip, wondering if there was any play at all for her to make "Then tell me what you want"

Control

Will needed for this to be different from the sex he'd knoith Ruelle, and craved for it to be different from the sex he'd had as a beast

"The succubus would like to kno I'd have this?" he sneered, still surprised she hadn't sunk her claws into him yet "Why? So you can deny me what I truly crave?"

He was close enough to spy the swells of her brsts beneath that dahosted over his chest

-Claim her Provide-

He was bloody about to!

She gazed up at hi hazel eyes "Just tell me"

Why no'? He was just drunk enough to be honest "I want to kiss you till your lips bruise beneath mine I want to swat your plu to me and I can"

She sed and her nples stiffened even ainst her robe

He peered hard at theet off on it I want you to come a dozen times, but only when I allow it" He reached forward to clamp her nape "When I look down on you as I mount your little body, I want to know that you're as desperate to receive ive it to you"

Her lips parted, her lids going heavy

"I want to say filthy words in your ear, because it gets rip on her-"and because it's a tool for me to use, like a third hand hich to pet you"

She'd begun panting, her brsts rising and falling so teainst the silk Yet her hands still remained by her sides

Could this be different from before? Because Chloe was different? He shook his head hard, noishing for clarity "I want total control of this situation, total domination of you, until iving you one-third ofevery one, nothing less would do He'd feed her, on his own ter?"

She shook her head

Denying hirowl Why should he be surprised?

"I'd like an, "and I want you to coht now, for soto you So I'd love for you to de you to use every filthy word you can think of, but stop calling me succubus"

She cli his touch?

"Chloe?" His voice broke lower

She removed her robe Gods, her body took his breath away She was thinner, but still so lovely All curves and sweet hollows

Yes, mayhap he'd find peace inside her