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“It’s notnow “Damn you” Her fists struck his shoulders “It’s not mine!”
His lips caue into her mouth, forced the taste into her senses, and oh God, it was so good It was everything she’d dreamed it would be It was impossible to resist
She whied him with her tears as her lips closed over his hesitantly She drew it from him She tasted him And within seconds, she was consumed by him
CHAPTER 20
She was his ht filled Mercury’s head as he felt her lips surround his tongue, felt the hesitant, sucklingthe hormone from him
He felt her pleasure, sensed the desire rising eagerly inside her even if she was hesitant in this He was giving to her, taking what belonged to hi her
Heat flashed through hiony The anied here, with her There was no battle, no fight for supremacy between the two For Ria, they were one
He growled into the kiss His fingers kneaded her scalp and he drew the scent of her into his very being His mate He had needed this Ached for it Froht of her, he had prayed for it And he had never realized that he was the reason he hadn’t mated her
That the control he had forced on his had blocked his ability to mate her
He hadn’t realized it until the animal inside hier
She had drawn the animal free From the first scent of her, the first time he had seen her, spoken to her, the anier It had awakened, drawn as Mercury had been drawn, by her scent, her honor, by the fact that she was created to live inside his soul
Now, as she drew the dark, potent horrowls that came from his chest echoed inside his head
At the moment, he was more ani to see who she belonged to, refusing to allow him, him, her mate, to protect her
Protecting her was his pleasure Protecting her, ensuring she survived at all costs, hat he had been born for He had been born for this woman Born to fill the cold places inside her, just as she filled them within him She eased the cold, dark loneliness inside hiht the sweet knowledge that the anied
She had run from him She had allowed another woman to come between them, stepped aside, no ain