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anger and their potent sexual cheen in the roo with too aze dipped down to her mouth, and her sto the space between theh the roof He didn’t touch her He didn’t have to for her to feel hiry sparked between theht her or fuck her She knew the feeling

“You owe it to your country,” he said, but his words burned with a different kind of heat than before, one that stoked an answering blaze within her

“And it owesfor an escape, the kind where she ended up naked, sweaty, and too satisfied to do anything but breathe, because thinking…re to ically rise from the dead when I put that crown on my head? He died for them, for Elskov”

“Do you really think he would have had it any other way?” Dom asked “Do you really think he would have saved his own life if ithis country?”

No, he wouldn’t, and that was the broken shard of glass that cut against her heart every tiht of him Her father had loved her She’d never doubt that, but Elskov, his duty, the crown—they all came first And in the end, the truth of it was that she and his beloved country had both abandoned hi that moment never went away, but so off her brain and letting her body take over That’s exactly what she needed right now

The tension between her and Do her up since he’d walked out of the elevator and on to the Dylan’s showroo in, she reached up with both hands and grabbed fistfuls of his button-up shirt as she raised herself to her tiptoes, bringing her mouth in line with his

“We can’t do this,” he said, his words brushing against her sensitized skin, but even though he easily could have, he didn’t break her hold on him “You’re my queen”

She stilled, ht”

“And tomorrow?” he asked, but his hands had already settled on her hips, yanking her closer so there was noexactly how hard he was for her

“Stop talking” She nipped at his botto “And fuck me”

Chapter Six

Douised as a de, romantic music, or flower petals kind of kiss Neither of theht now It was possession

She was right Tonight, she wasn’t his queen She was Elle Olsen, the woman he’d wanted to taste, touch, and fuck since he laid eyes on her in that sexy secretary outfit that hugged her hips and accentuated her bountiful tits He’d flirted She’d teased He’d kidnapped her She’d shot at him and tried to knee him in the balls It wasn’t exactly relationship starter material, but that wasn’t a possibility for them anyway No ree to be Elskov’s sovereign, and he’d be her loyal subject, but tonight he was going to hear Elle scream out his name as she came

Step one was to show her as in control He threaded his fingers through her long, silky hair and fisted it, pulling it tight and tilting her head back so he could deepen the kiss He delved into her ue tease and tempt her until she e His cock, so warh, throbbed What he’d meant to do was drive her to the brink, and instead here he was ready to dive over into the abyss

In an effort to take things back down to a slow, controlled burn, he traced a path across her jawline and down her neck with his lips, tasting the forbidden sweetness of her skin But Elle wasn’t having it She popped open the few buttons left on his shirt and pushed a hand inside His entire world shrank down to two points—her soft hand against his hard chest and her pulse beating like et lost in her, and that couldn’t happen