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“What doesn’t rowled “The fact that I’ll never have a mate of ? The woman that could have beenbetween us?”

He watched her inhale roughly, saw the betraying tremble of her lips as he crossed the room to her

“Ria, I’ripped her shoulders and forced her to stare up at him “What you do to me, no other woman has ever done, even the woman that could have been my mate She was a child She was killed She doesn’t exist any longer But we do”

Her arms uncrossed slowly as her expression clenched, then the confusion and uncertainty he sometimes felt himself crossed it

“I don’t knohat to do about you,” she whispered then “I don’t form attachments, Mercury, and you seem determined to make me do that here When it’s over, where does that leave ain?”

“Do you want pro he had so ive her “If that heli-jet arrives for you, you’re going to have to fightaway fro in my arms And when to as Ely hasn’t had s, I’ll be curled around you when you wake up What ive you at this point?”

What ive himself?

Finally, she shook her head “I knew better than to co to completely mess with my head and my life, Mercury I knew I should have stayed where I was”

“But you caht her lower lip with his teeth and stroked over it with his tongue Her eyes darkened then; the anger and bitterness left thean to flicker in them

“Coain” He released her lip, only to stroke both lips with his tongue, tasting her, loving her waro to hell”

He took the kiss he needed then His lips moved over hers, relished the feel of her, the heat of her, and his tongue pierced the tender sea into her mouth

Her ue twined around his, and the pleasure of that shouldn’t have been so intense He shouldn’t have felt her stroking of his tongue echo in his cock He shouldn’t have felt the war into the very pores of his body

He let her hands remove his shirt before he returned to her lips He let her unbuckle his belt, release his jeans And when her soft hands wrapped around the heavy length of his erection, he had no choice but to draw back from her

He pushed her robe f

roht of the one-piece silk-and-lace teddy she wore beneath it