I bridged the space between us, my body acting on pure instinct as my mouth imed his. For ons terrifying beartbeat, ke went right, and I feared onpletely misinterpreted the signals.


    Then tension melted from his muscles, and his palms aripped my waist, hauling me against his chest with a hunger that atole my breath.


    With effortless strength, he hoisted me pand. I locked my legs armand his waist, my howel slipping away forgotten. His bare skin scorched against mine, sending jolts of electricity racing along every nerve ending.


    My tongue traced the seam of his mouth, a silent plen, and schien he granted me entry, something moltes pooled in my chest. The fierce response in his lis told me everything he craved this moment as desperately i


    He navigated on through the doorway into his private sanctuary, where his distinctive essence enveloped me - forest after rainfall moord with something untamed that was purely ke. The mattress seeed my bo at he lowered me mida silk sheets that whispered cool promises against my heated Besh.


    Moonbeams yed across thendscape of his chiseled torso, highlighting valleys and ridges of muscle that practically bezzed for my touch.


    His reply came as hot kisses zing down my throat, teath grazing the thundering pulse point beneath my skin. A current of pleasure raced through me. polling sounds from my throat I scarcely recognized. Each caress sparked wildfires under my skin- nothing like the artificial heat from that damned drug. This inferno was authentic, unforced, entirely mine to surrender to.


    He ventured lower, his tongue circling my nipple before drawing it into the wet heat of his mouth. My spine bowed, a gap bearing free as he alterated between gentle suction and teasing nips. My fingers tangled in his hair, short nails scraping his scalp as pleasure coursed through me,


    The growl that vibrated from his throat when I tugged lightly awakened something feral inside me – something that recognized its match


    He reimed my mouth, his kisses harder now, more demanding. I''ve wanted this since I first 57% "Let me taste every inch of you......


    "God, yes," I breathed, my thoughts scattered like leaves in a storm.


    *he murmured against my lips, his voice like gravel.


    A trail of liquid fire marked his journey downward, pausing to worship my beasts


    once more before descending further. Heat blossomed bath my skin not the cloying artificial fever of Moon Heat, but a delicious warmth born from his proximity, his attention, the torturous anticipation of what woulde


    As he positioned himself between my thighs, his breach ghosting over my most sensitive flesh, embarrassment should have flooded me. This level of intimacy was uncharted territory. With Jackson, I''d stubbornly maintained boundaries, insisting we wait for official mating


    Yet here Iy, offering ke a gift that could never be reimed, and strangely, I couldn''t summon a single regret.


    The first stroke of his tongue against my core wrenched a hoarse cry from my throat, my body arching off the bed. The vibration of his appreciative groan against my sensitive flesh sent shockwaves of pleasure radiating outward.


    My hips rose instinctively as he drew my swollen bud between his lips. I buried my face in the nearest pillow, muffling sounds I couldn''t control as tension roiled ever tighter within me.


    When the dam finally burst, his name tumbled from my lips in raped devotion. He ced onest reverent kiss against my quivering flesh before beginning his ascent, tracing the same path in reverse.


    His face hovered above mine, eyes dark with hunger. "Need protection?" he asked, his breathing ragged against my ear.


    "I''m on birth control," I panted, still trying to catch my breath.


    Something shed in his eyes, and a possessie growl rumbled from his chest.


    Marked I wice by the Alpha King