Tangled

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115 Ava: Fate’s Urging

He kisses me again, his lips moving against mine with a hunger that consumes me. I lose myself in the taste of him, the feel of his body pressed against mine.”

Ava, Selene warns in my mind, her voice a distant echo. Remember what you need.

I try to focus on her words, but it’s hard when Lucas is kissing me like this, like I’m the only thing that matters in the world.

His hands slide under my shirt, his calloused fingers skimming over my sensitive skin. I arch into his touch, a soft moan escaping my lips.

“Lucas,” I breathe, my voice barely recognizable to my own ears. “We have to stop.”

He pulls back, his golden eyes blazing with desire. “I know. I’m sorry. I just can’t control myself around you.”

But his hands are still seeking, and I’m still arching into their touch. Rough fingers pull the cup of my bra low, and his thumb flicks over my nipple.

I take a shaky breath, trying to clear my head. “I need

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time, Lucas. Space. I can’t do this right now.“”

But I step closer, trying to yank his shirt out of his

waistband.

I should push him away, remind him of the boundaries I’ve fought so hard to establish, but my traitorous body melts into his embrace, craving his touch like a

parched flower thirsts for rain.

The way my name lingers on his lips, the way he breathes it like reverent prayer against my ears as his fingers continue to tug and twist in a sensual dance against my breast? I’m lost. Drowning beneath.

sensation.

The very core of me throbs with a need so basic, so simple, and so consuming.

my voice a breathless plea. “We

can’t…”

even as the words leave my lips, I’m pulling him closer, my fingers tangling in his dark hair, my mouth seeking his with a desperation that

bond between us has flared

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force beyond our control, a need that

uncertain futures. We’re simply two

in a way that drags a moan out of me. His answering growl sends another throbbing pulse of desire straight to my clit in a way that

me until I feel the edge

attention. She’s probably telling me to stop, and there’s

is here with us, part of the moment. When I fall

for him to unbutton my

Fate’s

over my hips and down my legs, tossing them somewhere behind him to land in a haphazard pile on the

that smooth motion drives me mad.

he would lay down his life to protect me. It’s a

before.

my hips buck in frustration, seeking more.

settles there, right at the core of

such force that my knuckles

I try to shove my hips forward, his hands hold me down, both wrapped around my

feel.

Fate’s

Fuck.

scrape against my clit, as he sucks and nibbles and licks and loves at different moments, driving what little

throb to over the cliff

like that.” His growls, the approval in his words, sends fresh desire

One isn’t enough.

Not even close.

my belly as one of his hands settles between my thighs. His middle finger sinks inside, accompanying stars behind my eyelids

out of his throat tells me that his wolf likes

submission.

and I shove my

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eagerly as he