“It’s gonna happen,” he growled, his lips pulling back over his teeth as his back arched, and she felt his cock give a hard pulse, almost as if he’d had some preliminary kind of orgasm. She’d felt the sensation the other times they’d made love—only this time there wasn’t anything separating them, and the hard, thick pulse was immediately followed by a hot, molten heat that felt indescribably good as it spread through her body, and Olivia could feel herself tightening around him even more. With a low growl vibrating in his chest, Aiden rode her with hard, heavy lunges, thrusting against some deep, impossibly wonderful spot that damn near stopped her heart. Her head shot back, her mouth open for the silent screams pouring up from her throat as a voluptuous wave of pleasure rolled through her, her body convulsing around him as he began to make raw, thick noises in the back of his throat. It took a moment for her to focus through the blinding, piercing ecstasy, but she finally realized he was asking her the same question, over and over again.
“Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?”
Knowing exactly what he was talking about, Olivia reached up and wrapped her arms around his strong neck, pulling him down to her as she turned her head to the side, revealing the vulnerable curve of her throat. “Do it, Aiden. Please. I love you so much. Just do it.”
He shuddered, his hips slamming against her, powering his body into hers, and then she felt his warm lips brushing against the tender skin just beneath her ear. “You don’t know how close I came to biting you before,” he said in a dark, velvety voice that was roughened by need. “Every time we made love, it was so hard not to mark you, Liv. To hold myself back.”
“You don’t have to fight it anymore.”
Groaning, he buried his face in the curve of her shoulder, and she dug her nails into his biceps. She felt the scrape of his lengthening incisors against her flesh, and then a thick cry of shock was ripped up out of her as he drove his fangs deep. She could feel his cock growing harder…thicker, her body stretched around him to the point that it was a crazy blend of both pleasure and pain as he growled against her shoulder. Then he pulled back his fangs, licking the wound with slow, provocative strokes of his tongue. For a moment Olivia was almost frightened, as he became even thicker, his body driving into her with a visceral, savage intensity—but then the pleasure won out over the fear and she gave herself up to it, falling into a crushing wave of ecstasy with him that was so violent, so extreme, she knew she’d never be the same.
She lay there, panting and wrecked, for a long time after, loving the heavy weight of his body draped over hers. Loving his warm breath in her ear. The lingering pulses that twitched from that powerful part of him that was still packed deep inside her.
She thought she’d known what pleasure was, but she’d been wrong.
She thought she’d been prepared for how this moment would feel, but she hadn’t had a clue.
With his hot face pressed close to hers, he finally managed to say, “Damn, woman, I think you killed me.”
She smiled and stretched beneath him. “You stole the words right out of my mouth.”
Bracing himself on one elbow, he stared down at her flushed face as he lifted his hand and pushed back the damp strands of her hair from her cheek. “I thought I knew how it would be, but I wasn’t even close.”
“Better?” she asked, thinking that she’d never known a more sinfully, impossibly sexy man.
He lowered his head and kissed her deeply…hungrily, his lips moving against hers as he said, “There’s nothing in the world that could compare.”
With the tips of her fingers she touched the bite mark Aiden had made, a strange warmth still pulsing beneath her skin that felt unbelievably wonderful. “Does this mean that I’m your mate now?” she whispered, filled with a powerful, stunning surge of pride.
His eyes tightened as he threaded his fingers through the hair at her temple. “You’re more than my damn mate, Liv. You’re my everything.”
“So what now?” she asked, knowing without any doubt that she was the luckiest woman in the world.
His mouth curled with a boyish, lopsided smile as he said, “Now we go downstairs and get Jamie. We bring her up here and tuck her into the little bed that’s set up in the connecting room. Then I carry you back in here and lay you down. Make love to you again…and again, until our bodies are too exhausted to move. And after that, I want to sleep with you, Liv. Hold you in my arms through the night, just watching over you…listening to you breathe.” He shook his head a little, saying, “God, there are so many things that I want from you.”
“You can have them all, Aiden. Just name them, and they’re yours.”
“Good,” he rasped. “Because I know just what to start with.”
“And what would that be?”
“A baby, so that Jamie can have a little brother or sister. For you to marry me, so that I can call you my wife. But most of all,” he whispered, brushing his lips against hers, “I want forever with you, Liv. One lifetime just isn’t going to be enough.”
The tender words melted into her heart, stunning her with their beauty, her happiness so powerful and vast and intense, she didn’t know how she kept it all inside. Somehow, in the midst of the nightmare surrounding them, Olivia had managed to find her version of heaven, and now this gorgeous, loving, incredible man was hers.
She didn’t know what she’d done to deserve it. To deserve him.
But she had a tiger by his tail, and she was never letting him go.
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TOUCH OF SEDUCTION
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