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.

my voice a

can’t…”

mouth seeking his with a

flared to

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our control,

pasts and uncertain futures. We’re simply two

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

hands down my ribs, he settles them against my hips and walks me backward, guiding me until I feel the edge of the hospital bed

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

us, part of the moment. When I fall back

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

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

before.

hips buck in

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

hair with such force that

both wrapped around

feel.

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Fuck.

as he sucks and nibbles and licks and loves at different moments, driving what little thought

gone from a dark throb to over the cliff without warning, and I gasp and buck

growls, the approval in his words, sends fresh desire

One isn’t enough.

Not even close.

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

and that animalistic growl that comes out of

submission.

stretch burns and I shove my hips

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his hand eagerly as he thrusts, his