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She was terrified if he owned that part of her, then he would control her Because if Lawe could change her, if he could force her independence to give way to his need to protect her, then he would do it in a heartbeat

“The thought of losing you destroys me,” he suddenly whispered at her ear “When I saw you in that filthy cell, beaten, almost broken, so delicate and so determined to live, you stole a part of my soul”

Shock held her silent To hear this strong, always so e Laasn’t a ive in to emotion And most certainly, even for a Breed, he had see to experience emotion than most

Keeping her eyes closed she could only hold tighter to hi what she felt froood

And she knehat he could sense from her

The denial, a rejection of what he was offering her and the pain of being unable to reach out for it and hold it close to her

“Why?” he suddenly asked, his face still buried in her neck “Why don’t you hat I have to offer, Diane?”

She felt the tears that tightened her throat, and though she couldn’t smell scent as he could, and the pain wasn’t in his voice, still, she could sense it It tightened her chest and sent an ache to burrow so deeply inside her that she knew she would never escape it

“Because you refuse to accept who I a me as well, Lawe The rejection is just deeper I accept you for who you are You refuse to do the same for me”

His head lifted and drew back

She was still pressed to the wall, his body still a part of hers and the pleasureThe pleasure still throbbed inside her from the presence of the barb as it kept her mate locked to her

“Do you accept me for who I am?” he asked quietly, soers touched her cheek, the backs of theently “You’d help us both find a way to co but destroy us both”

As she stared back at him and battled the tears she had no experience with, Diane felt the barb slowly releasing her, retracting back into the hood of his cock and taking with it the echoes of rapture that held her in its grip That held Lawe in her grip

“Do you compromise, Lawe?” she whispered “Because honestly, I haven’t seen any give in you that would indicate the ability”

Dropping his head to her shoulder he bestowed a gentle kiss before slowly helping her to slide from him as he pulled the still semi-hard shaft from her pussy and stepped back