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"You see, to call a unicorn, you must have the purest of hearts All children are born thus, but each day as we groe gain s man needs his shadows On that day, only Micah was as he had been born And so only Micah’s voice could reach the unicorn real shut

Micah dreahter He’d never had family, but in this dream, he ran after two tall men - they chuckled when he fell, and he didn’t like that, but he was stubborn, fought to get up Then there was one of those otten as he ran in his brothers’ footsteps across the sand

Nicolai scrambled down the dune first

Micah wanted to race down after hiasp in a breath But he wasn’t left behind He never was Grabbing hihed when they reached the beach to find Nicolai fighting off a territorial red land crab, the water a warood day

The thought lingered as he woke, as he becareat hall in the Black Castle He was naked, and that told him what had happened before he ever saw the fractured table, the splintered chairs However, that wasn’t the

He wasn’t alone

Always before, he’d been alone The day servants scattered at the first sign of the curse, while Bard and Jissa had strict instructions to bar their doors and keep their distance until he was a man once more But today, he woke curled around a fe curves Especially dohere her bottoainst the hardness of hiood When she murers on her abdoh up between the silky skin of her own legs, pushing up the dress as he went It would be better, he thought, if she was naked, too, but the stone floor was cold Liliana wouldn’t enjoy that

Her naer lost "Lily," he said, rubbing against her again "Wake up, Lily"

"Mhted him, pleased him "Micah?" She tried to turn onto her back, was stopped by his ehs squeezing down on the one he’d insinuated in between

Kissing her neck, he moved his free hand up to cup her breast "You’re so soft, Lily I wonder what it’d feel like if I lay on top of you"

Her skin grew hot under his lips, her hand rising to grip the wrist of the hand on her breast "We have to get up The others could co the husky order, he ran his thureen dress he’d brought her She tried to pull away He growled low in his throat, held her to hier the beast, Micah" Her hand tightened on his wrist "Don’t try to trick ain "You like this, Lily I can feel your daainst her "My mouth waters - I think I want to taste you there"

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A squeak escaped Liliana’shand and scra position, surprised at her success Then she turnedand felt every bit of air leave her body

Micah was naked

And he was the most sensual creature she had ever seen - all tureen and a jutting arousal he fisted without shame Her own hand flexed and she almost whimpered when he released hi after hith of the command issued by some small sensible part of herself, she tried to find the rest of her rational mind as he closed the distance between theo

She shivered when he stopped behind her, put his hands on her hips and squeezed "M?"

Ignoring her atte away his hands, he continued to raise the skirts of her dress The air was cool against her calves, the backs of her knees, her "Micah, wenot the least bit of certainty