Tangled

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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.

I whisper, my voice a breathless

can’t…”

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

us has flared to life, a pulsing,

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that demands to be acknowledged. It’s a force beyond our control, a need that overrides all reason

pasts and uncertain futures. We’re simply two halves of a whole, drawn together by a power

sure, squeeze both breasts 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 backward, guiding me until I feel the edge

saying something, but I don’t pay any attention. She’s probably telling me to stop, and there’s no

us, part of the moment. When I fall back onto

takes only moments for him to unbutton my jeans

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yank them over my hips and down my legs, tossing them somewhere behind him to land in

that smooth motion drives me mad.

heart races as I take in the hunger in his golden eyes. He looks at me like I’m the most precious thing in the world, like he would lay down his life to protect me. It’s a heady feeling, one that makes me feel cherished and desired

before.

thighs, and my hips buck in frustration, seeking

have disappeared with my jeans and his mouth settles there, right at the core of me,

with such

forward, his hands hold me down, both wrapped around my thighs as he feasts on the warmth of

feel.

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Fuck.

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

dark throb to over the cliff without warning,

baby. Just like that.” His growls, the approval in his words,

One isn’t enough.

Not even close.

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

out of his throat tells me that his wolf

submission.

finger. The stretch burns and

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