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“When I needed your touch,” he growled against her lips, “I grew icy here first” His hand pressed closer “Cold until I felt my bones would shatter from the need of your warmth”
She gazed into his dark eyes, seeing the shadows of the pain and the cold he had endured for eight long months
She shook her head, fighting the guilt that consumed her, the evidence of what she had left him to suffer Male Breeds, she had learned, had an instinctive, overriding need to protect their ainst any pain, to shelter them as much as possible
He kissed her again, sinking into her, his tongue stroking against hers as she whiainst his lips in pleasure He stroked her lips, licked at the war heat that would have torn her apart
His head lifted “Look at me”
Her lashes lifted until she was staring into his deterant expression
“Never do this again, Anya Ever When theheat builds, if we can’t satisfy it at that moment, then my kiss will ease it until we can No , my kiss is yours My warmth is yours Do you understand me?”
She had to battle her tears again, her guilt, the knowledge of what she had done to them both
“Why?” she whispered “Eight months, Del-Rey, and I stayed away I made you suffer as well”
“And you think I should blame you? That I should revile you?” he asked as he pushed her hair tenderly back from her face “Anya, do you think I don’t kno terrified you were the day I took you and fired upon your family in front of your eyes? That I didn’t know I had lied to you, betrayed the trust you gave me so freely? I never blamed you, little love Myself yes My own impatience and lust, most definitely But never you”
“You should hate me” A tear slipped free “You suffered and your base suffered; your people suffered because you weren’t there And you weren’t there because of me”
“But you suffered because of hed “And now it doesn’t even matter if there is blame to be laid You’re in h this, Anya Together”
His lips feathered over hers, parted them, slanted and took hers in a kiss that took her ability to debate, argue, agree or disagree She sucked his tongue into her mouth, teased him, tempted him
Her hips lifted, her sex rubbed against the hard ridge of his cock, her clit gloried in the heat racing between their bodies now
Her handsbeneath them to pull his shirt from his jeans and burrow beneath the cloth to the hard, heated flesh beyond