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"Ice! No Please" Her body shook "Don’t stop"

He raised up on all fours and kissed her belly "Shh I won’t Ever Until you tellhi his intent clear

Trailing kisses over the swells of her breasts and her neck, he reached down to toy with the button of her clit again until she drew in a sweet, shuddering breath Slow, steady, he told himself Gentle

Carefully, he took his cock in hand and aligned their bodies, then paused "I ask only one thing in return: never hold anything back fro hi his sensitive tip "I won’t Please"

"Give "

"Yes," she panted as he pushed forward, thrusting deep "YES!"

Bloody hell With a word, she nearly undid hiht and slick around hi out for hiood that it hurt His blood boiled in an instant Need ramped up, made him sweat, made him dizzy He cravedand pulsing and accepting hiain To the hilt "I’ll take every part of you"

Body and soul

He swore that now she had allowed hi his ar even deeper only reaffirmed what he knew: she was his

He pulled back, tried to ease off, but her body clung to hi around him She looped her arms around his neck and peppered frantic kisses across his shoulder She was close, and Ice sed Now he’d find out exactly how invested she was in him because he had no doubt that her body was tied to her heart And his heart was irrevocably tied to hers

Ice tangled his fingers into her hair, this thuainst Sabelle’s jaw Her face and chest were rosy by candlelight, and her eyes were closed in i bliss Unacceptable

"Look at me," He had to make certain she kneas deep inside her, that she could not iet used to hiht here Often

Slowly, her eyes fluttered open, revealing dilated pupils, and she gazed at his face

His heart jumped His libido kicked up another notch, and he sla the end of her channel The hitch in her breath spiked triu of her slick walls around hiht, he would earn her pleasure and a place in her heart

"Don’t look away," he warned

Sabelle shook her head, her gaze never wavering Her acceptance and the exquisite feel of her was killing the rerab hold of his need and keep it tightly under wraps, couldn’t unleash the full extent of his lust on her Pushing or frightening her would get hi in his brain did no good

Lowering his hands to her hips, he tilted her toward hi, rapid rhythed her face i She tensed and gasped again, clutching hi to co her an option

"Y-yes"

Impossible to miss the catch in her voice It drove him to thrust deeper, clutch her hips and hold her in place so she felt the friction As he did, he drowned in a sea of darkening blue eyes and thick brown lashes He didn’t dare blink for fear of s tightened around hirew loud, then louder He held the pace steady, sweat beading all over Seconds later she clamped down on hi around hi, she released

Satisfaction doused his veins as she pulsed around hi against the sensitive spot he’d discovered, prolonging her ecstasy

She no an to pound that saaze He knew he should ease away, back off until she recovered But when she experienced ecstasy, he swore he could see so deep into her soul, and she was beautiful to hiain Even more than before Her kindness had always i but a warrior wizard Her intelligence airl able to manipulate Council politics as easily as she helped deal with the centuries-old Doomsday Diary Her sensuality … That he had always suspected she kept beneath her surface, but basking in it now, he nearly drowned She was … everything, and he wanted nothing ain

Closer Soet closer, deeper, take even s over his hips, and they curled around his waist It still wasn’t enough He put more force behind each stroke, sank deeper still The bed shook with every thrust And still it wasn’t enough He pressed his face closer to hers, losing himself even h Would it ever be?

"I could do this to you all night," he ain, and she didn’t speak, but she er Joy raced like fire through his veins as she tightened on hiain A little more, then

"Ice!" Sabelle screa frantically into his shoulders

The pain spurred him on, and he pistoned into her like a madman His pleasure spiraled nearly beyond his control, but he held on to it for the sheer thrill of watching the frantic need on her face transform into the most beautiful bliss And trust She trusted hi was ratification and need hit hied to hurtle her into pleasure more than once, and he could only pray that meant he held a deeper place in her heart than Lucan But twice didn’t satisfy him Not even close

Don’t push her anymore, he told himself Slow Gentle Pull back She’s not ready for more

He told the voice in his head to fuck off

Rolling over, he laid on his back, then lifted her off his erection, which ached for more of the soft suction of her body Then he wrapped his ar with his biceps, and lifted her up his body, settling her wet, swollen sex over his an to feast, his gut tightening The taste of her very essence screa anew My mate Mine!

"Ice," she panted "Wait I--I can’t Letto get a grip As he trembled and felt a haze of need shut down his brain, he realized that grasping for self-control was a waste of tirowled, then devoured her again, sucking the little swollen bud into his ain, against his lips, with a shout that tapered off into a crackling, hoarse cry And still he wantedher down his body with one hand, he lifted his cock with the other and raised up into the tight clench of her body She closed around him in welcome