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And I sure as hell wasn’t going to let anyone threaten that ever again

“I love you,” I said, needing hi inside me with slow, heated strokes that made my body tremble

He stilled, seated to the hilt, looking down at me A smile shaped his lips “I love you,” he said, then bared his fangs and slaasped fro apart as he pumped and sucked at the same time

“Re the wounds above ain” He thrust home, harder, more primal and dominant than ever before A tiny sliver of pain laced with the pleasure, and I holly liquid at the clai

“Never Again,” I pro the words as he pinned ain

“Never,” he growled, sinking his fangs intoso fastuntil my muscles were limp and my bones jelly Until I could feel that bond between us burning so bright and strong, there wouldn’t be a thing on this earth that could da words with a kiss that sent ht over it with me

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Benedict

Ten sets of wary eyes studied Jocelyn and me with the kind of intensity that would have soured my stomach if I didn’t know my brothers as well as I did Jocelyn’s pulse ju ot past this

Valor winked at Jocelyn, and Lyric grinned

Fine, I guess that ht sets of wary eyes and two excited ones I couldn’t blame my brothers for the skeptical, even apprehensive way they stared at my mate Our species had never been put in this kind of situation before, but that didn’t stop , ready to defend my mate at even the most subtle threat

If it came between the Order and my mate, Jocelyn won Hands down

I’d had twenty-four hours of uninterrupted tiht variation of her scent and taste now that she was a vampire An entire day where we’d been left alone to feed, talk, make love, and fuck Priceless tiic of our bond to pure, unbreakable steel But those hours were over and we’d been su ordered to the war room