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His words were lost to the feral groan that ripped out of hi her between his forearms, he drove inside her faster, deeper, untamed in his need His handsos so enoraze fixed on those diaet enough either She wanted all of hiht last She wanted forever with Ettore Selvaggio

After just one ti years in between, he was still the only man she craved

In her heart--to the depths of her soul--she kneas the only man she would ever love

Chapter 9

Savage didn’t fully understand the depth of his mistake until he was buried within Bella’s velvet, wet heat She ainst her Her hands roa down the valley of his spine, scoring him as he pushed her toward the peak of her release

Daelic, yet sexy as hell She always had been, but now there was a strength in her too

There was a power inside her, one that had been forged in the fire of what she’d endured the past three years No longer the sheltered innocent, but a resilient woman who knehat she wanted and wasn’t afraid to take it

And, incredibly, what she wanted was him

Still

The realization stunned him, huo

One taste of her a decade ago had ruined him for any other wo with the need to make her his alone

In flesh and vow

God help him, he wanted to claim her in blood too

He wanted that with a ferocity he’d never known

Not true, he corrected He had wanted Bella as his blood-bonded mate even then Ten years of absence from her had only solidified that resolve

He loved her, and blood bond or not, he kneould destroy any ht to take her away frorowled the words as he pu they sounded e

They were both They were his purpose for breathing, and he couldn’t pretend they were anything less

Not now

Not when she was co into the muscles of his biceps as she cried his naht walls of her sex vibrated along his cock, tinyhim like a slick fist as wave after wave coursed over her taut body

He watched her co to slow his own release just so he could revel in the pleasure he was giving her But his need owned hi to tee a wildfire

He took her hs and an to ebb When her eyelids slowly lifted, she gave him a blissful smile that he would kill to see on her lips for the rest of his life

His voice was gruff, raw "You’re mine"