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He raised his head, a hotly sexual being in her bed "No?"

"Well"

"Shall I do it again?"

"Yes" She fisted her hand in the raw silk of his hair after issuing that wicked invitation, her toes curling into the sheets

Sance of his power, he gave her another sharp nip, then sucked over the spot before lifting his head "I’ll bite you other places, too This softest place - " a push of his hips as he changed position to fit hiainst her " - first of all"

At that, her mind simply hazed over

Chapter 14

That hen Micah kissed her

There was no build-up, no little kisses to get her used to the idea He just took her mouth, all hot and wet and raw - a kiss as untamed and uncivilized as theher head at an angle that allowed hier that had her body atte Frustrated, wanting to feelit

Settling ainst her, hedown to her throat, lower Breaking the kiss, she gasped, "We have to stop" She’d finally remembered she was naked - or so close to it as not to matter

"Why?"

She couldn’t think of an answer

Which got her kissed again, Micah’s hand lying heavy and warm over her chest, just above the curve of her breasts When he ripped his wrist "A kiss" It was a husky re she knew he planned to talk her into every kind of wickedness She should’ve told hi that she found herself kissing him

Micah had kissed Liliana his way and he wanted to do it over and over again, but now she was kissing hientler than hi beneath skin silky and warue, Lily," he said when she took a breath

"Like this?" A shy brush

As he met her intimate advance with his own, he realized his hand was somehow on her hip, and that she was lush and sweet there, as well "I like touching you here" He rubbed

"You can’t just say things like that" Whispered against his lips

"Why?"

She laughed, the sound hushed and intimate "I don’t know"

"Then I’ll say what I want" Sucking her lower lip into hisdeeper into her "I want to touch you without the sheet"

A shake of her head "No"

"Why not?"

"I don’t let a ht"

"Toain, because every time he did, she seemed to soften And he’d use every weapon in his arsenal to coax her to lie bare and open beneath him "Say yes"

Her hands stroked down to his back, her response a whisper "Maybe"

He had the certain thought that he could otten voice whispered to hi his head, he lifted it, stared down at Liliana "Did you say soentle touch on his face "What do you hear?"

Looking down into her eyes, he saw an impossible kind of clarity "Honor is what le tre"

"I’ll go now, Liliana," he said, not ready to ask the naht of it reen dress toreen dress"

But when she woke, after a night spent in hazy half-forgotten drea the Lord of the Black Castle and a carnality that had left her soaked with sweat, she found a pretty green dress draped over the end of the bed Touching it after her bath, she sighed at the feel of the fine wool against her skin That hen she realized she’d just washed both pairs of her underwear, having forgotten the intiht had been Micah’s rejection

It ht red, but she ithout the where they hung on the back of the bathing chamber door No one would know that beneath her pretty dress, she was bare as the day she’d been born - they’d have no reason to wonder about it

Pressing her hands to her cheeks, she repeated that reassurance oncedown to the kitchens toit with cinnareat hall, but Micah was nowhere to be found About to leave it there for hie toward the back right of the hall - where she gliarden