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"Please, princess"

Big, bad, not-quite-sane Isdernus begging her? She sranted his wish

When her hand closed around hiasped His shoulders came off the bed, and his eyes flared like an inferno--hot and unstoppable Incredible Tingles skipped down her ar power in her hand Her hand didn’t quite wrap around all his girth, so she wrapped her other around him as well

An earthy curse slipped from his lips "I dreamed of this God, so often Theyou withme touch you"

She rubbed her thumb over the da Ice to nothing but gasps and moans filled her with both power and peace She here she belonged No other wizard had ever felt so right But still, she wantedher hair over one shoulder, she bent to hiue laved his erection then took hiroans He tasted harsh and hot and so exquisitely salty andof his body and pleasures In the past, sex had been anything froe to a fun, flirty way to pass ti with Ice … a treasure, aaddiction

"Yes," hethrough the strands, anchoring against her scalp, he arched his hips, sinking his stiff flesh deeper into her er, his ent Sabelle reveled in the fact that she could bring such a fierce warrior and wizard sorasped her hair in both hands, guiding her to deeper, faster strokes Then suddenly he stilled and gritted his teeth

"No more" Gently, he lifted her head away from him, then raised her face to his "Thank you for the incredible pleasure, princess, but I want to share the sensations with you, feel you all around me I need that now"

Before she could reply, he rolled her beneath hied deep She et, of course Si in the saer to receive every hard inch But he surged into her fast and deep, and she gasped as his cock scraped every one of her nerve endings as he buried hiripped her hips, then gasped when he sank in deeper "Give e his body with hers and not feel as if she was drowning in ecstasy He unleashed a firestor in slow, deep strokes that quickly had her gasping and tightening around him Ice’s lips brushed across hers, then he ether

The double assault on her defenses overwhelmed her in moments Ice surrounded her, and she didn’t just feel his kiss or his passion, but his very soul as he poured it into her with measured, relentless strokes that quickly pushed her over the edge, into a real With a cry, her heart followed

Still, Ice wasn’t satisfied The release of her power into hiized hi dehts, after a release as powerful as the one she’d just experienced, she should be somewhere between sated and numb, but Ice would not be denied

He pal the sensitive peak as he continued to delve her ly, the heat and pressure between her legs built again, this ti than before Up, up, up her need clawed Sabelle feared Ice must still carry the wounds of his mistreatment at Mathias’s hands, but she couldn’t stop herself fros around his waist andhim stroke for stroke until she dissolved into a round out a harsh male cry and emptied every bit of himself--breath, heart, seed--deep into her

In the moment, she wondered if life as his mate would be like this If so, she wanted it badly

The Binding words hovered on the tip of her tongue as they each recovered their breathing She wanted to speak them--so much But Bram

Ice raised up on his elbows and peered down into her face with eyes so green and tender, her heartails your mind already?"

She forced a smile How simple it would be to tell him that she intended to beco her brother’s blessing would take ic And she wanted Bra up her family and all she’d known for a wizard she’d never spoken to until a few days past, a man clearly haunted by secrets … it hardlyinstinct They had the luxury of taking a single taste and knowing the right fe but their hearts Still, so her that, without Ice, she’d live a half-life

"I don’t knohat to do," she confessed "About this About us"

Ice sucked in a deep breath "Sabelle, you knohat I want My wishes have not changed But if you will not Bind to me, please say so"

"I can’t make myself Renounce you I’ve tried, for ret welled deep inside her, a burn in her chest she wished she could ignore "But my heart"

"Wants e" He cupped her face "You deserveelse, ork out together"

Sabelle hesitated Icebut "I cannot do that toand happiness, iance He removed me from the clutches of a selfishto sellthe most powerful wizard that I would mate with them or their sons upon my transition"

He blanched, turned white His face closed up "You were a child! Bram rescued you?"

"Yes Before he came for me, I had never met or heard of him I knehat my mother plotted, and it terrified me Wizards ere five hundred or more, many of whom had acquired their power by nefarious randdaughter They knew nothing of me, the real me inside Just reat debt, yes, but the rest of your life?"

"Today, lanced out theto see pale edges of gray creeping into the lace-drapedA fist-tight tension gripped her stomach Soon, she’d know if the dark healer had healed Brah, Ice rolled away "It will do no good"

Sabelle frowned, re about the enmity between her brother and Ice "Why? Why do you hate each other sofrom the bed, Ice padded to the bathroo that sounded suspiciously like a fist pounding the wall, before Ice reappeared, a white torapped around his waist

Suddenly, Sabelle felt naked, exposed She grabbed the bedsheet and covered herself

"He will never let you mate with a Deprived, especially me I’ve been foolish to hope, but--"

"How do you know? If I tell him that you make me happy, certainly he’ll listen I’ve never seen my brother treat anyone differently because of their birth"