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“What choice do I have? You are the king”

He snickered at the lightaway from her, he unfastened the tie around the thick ing in the four corners, attached to the twelve-foot-tall bedposts

Jade eyed hi to take my word that I won’t touch you?”

“No” He grinned at her “You have a way of turning things around and I don’t want to be sidetracked until I’m done”

Uncertainty crossed her face, but for a split second Then she said, “Lizzy would panic over a moment like this”

“Thankfully, you’re not Lizzy Now lie down”

She hedged, and he kneasorders But lust seeet the best of her, because she did as he asked She stretched out on his bed and fanned out her long, raven hair against the mound of pillows

He eyed her previously injured hand “I’ll be very careful”

She smiled “You always are with me”

He took both her hands and pressed the wrists together, then gently bound theh so she could easily wiggle out of it if she wanted to He had no intention of pulling tight enough to potentially create any pain He was nizant of her hypersensitivity to sensation to add any sort of strain on her

Guiding her to lift her arh an intricate cutout in the thick headboard, just below the scrolled trilided over her skin from her wrists to the undersides of her arms Then he palmed her breasts and she writhed on the

He stood beside her, the bed at waist-height for hiainst the crotch of his briefs and the front of his black leather pants He wore nothing else, due to the aenerated from the fire he’d built to keep Jade comfortable

Her full, fire hands His thumbs swept over the hard, dusty-rose nipples and she let out a soft sigh Her legs pressed together, as though she felt the same ache between them as he felt between his own

“You are so beautiful,” he told her as he gazed down at her She had a flawless, alabaster coiven her hair color and vibrant blue eyes

One of his hands skihtly rounded belly She had feers swept over her upper thigh, and then along the inner portion, the flesh tre beneath his touch