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“Stop,” Liarowled “Damn it, Raine, how do you expect to learn to surrender when you spend some and yourself?”

She had nowhere to escape his penetrating stare Her heart chugged The

Raine closed her eyes and turned her head away

He grabbed her cheeks and forced her to look back at hiuts to open her eyes and see as on his face Disappointer? Scorn?

“The only way you’ll be escapingyour safe word Say it or look at me”

Using her safe hen he wasn’t physically hurting her would be the coward’s way out He was trying to help her learn to give more of herself She needed this lesson But he’d already seen so deeply inside her, more than maybe anyone ever…

On that fatefulhe’d offered to train her, he’d told her that he intended to split her open like a ripe peach She’d been alive him that power Damn, she’d been a fool

Hitching in a sob, she forced herself to open her eyes, though she couldn’t see hih her thick tears

A voice in her head told her that sharing all of herself wouldn’t be as scary as facing an executioner It would probably be beautiful Raine still didn’t know if she could do it

“I know the fact that I’ I just keep trying to solve my problems so I don’t have to bother you”

“It doesn’t work that way, and you know it”

In her head, Raine did A plea for his reassurance sat on the tip of her tongue, but she silenced it She had to give him control

“Raine…” He wiped her tears away, his fingers terribly gentle

Her heart wept Lia her every instinct to crawl back inside herself and hide

“Good Stay with me now”

He eased down her body, his lips dragging over her skin, sucking slowly at each nipple before he lowered his , slow lick She shuddered with the sensations of her soul splitting open and oozing need, her body wired and alive

He groaned “The taste of you, love… So perfect on ue”

“Liam,” she sobbed and writhed “Help me Tell me… What do you want?”