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“Will our children be safer?” she asked

“Kioife hasn’t yet conceived,” he stated “She doesn’t use the hormone for conception either We have time to work this out”

It seemed he had already worked it out

“I didn’t ask for explanations” She rose to her feet and disconnected the computer

There had been no e for advice or assistance None of the often dozens of requests that filled her inbox There had been a single e more

Just that easily she had been wiped away

“Anya” As sheto her, his body pressing against hers “You are every part of my soul I can’t risk you”

Keeping her back to him, she closed her eyes at the pain in his voice, at the pain that vibrated through her own soul

“I understand that,” she finally whispered, and perhaps a part of her did understand “I’ more”

“Only in others’ eyes” His hands slid around her “What’s between us is between us, Anya You’re my mate My coya No matter what the world sees”

But she wasn’t his coya That power, that privilege, had been taken from her She was his bedmate In the eyes of the world, and now in his eyes as well Because the benefits she would have brought to his life as anything le memo

She was crying inside as his lips pressed against her neck Crying as the faan to curl through her body and rage through her nerve endings

And still she couldn’t deny him

As his fingers lifted the he it over her head, she couldn’t deny hiht When he turned her in his arms and pressed his lips to hers, she couldn’t deny him the kiss she needed herself The taste of him, that little bit to hold on to A part of himself he couldn’t steal from her, simply because nature demanded that he take satisfaction from her alone

Her arms twined around his neck; emotion seared her insides This ed to him, no matter how much it hurt She had realized that in the past two days He owned her She, who had sworn she would never be owned, ned by this man, this Breed