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For a moment, his words made her pause. Could she tell him anything? Could she tell him she was Rosamunde? The part of her that understood him knew she couldn’t, not if she wanted a kiss. So she let it go. Guilt hit her, but she ignored that, too.
Instead, she told him what was on her mind. “Do you remember the first mission we ran together?”
He narrowed his eyes. “Of course. I was just thinking about it, too. The troll kids on the school bus.”
She nodded. “You were so reassuring with those kids as well as the driver, then you pulled the bus back with the sheer strength of your arms.”
A smiled played over his lips and he slid his hand beneath the mass of her curly hair and caught the nape of her neck. “You’ve forgotten.”
“What?”
“I didn’t do it on my own. You joined your power to mine, remember? I couldn’t have pulled that bus back on my strength alone.”
She chuckled and even grinned. “You’re right. I forgot I’d helped out. All I know is you were absolutely magnificent and that’s the reason I want you to kiss me.”
“I don’t think you could have said anything better to me. Thank you, Aralynn.”
He tilted his head slightly, and the thing she’d been craving was suddenly hers. She closed her eyes and centered every thought, every sensation on the press of his moist, warm lips against hers. She wanted to remember it forever, that despite what might happen in the future because of her subterfuge, she would always have this moment with him.
He used the pressure on the back of her neck to move her just so, to pull her closer and deepen the kiss. When she parted her lips, his tongue slid inside, a penetration that felt as sensual as if he’d entered her body with all that was male.
She moaned heavily, not for his sake but because she couldn’t help it. It felt like heaven, especially to her wolf. She loved his hand on her neck and would like even more being controlled from behind.
She melted against him. He tightened his hold on her because he must have sensed what she felt, that she’d fall to the mine floor if he let her go. Stone, I’ve wanted this night after night for so long.
He groaned, a gravelly sound that forced her arms to snake around his neck. He pressed his body fully against hers. She felt the brute strength of his muscled arms and heavy powerful thighs. She could feel as well that he was hard for her.
Something like a sob caught in her throat. So this was what she’d been missing for so many centuries. She tried to be reasonable, to pull back and let the kiss just be a kiss, maybe a sedate beginning of sorts. But she couldn’t. Her own hunger demanded she keep going, keep feeling the pulse of his tongue and the way he ground his hips against hers.
She wanted him to the point of desperation.
But the part of her that was more fae than wild wolf, began to come to the fore. This was Stone, the man who disliked ‘Rosamunde’ with a passion. To keep kissing him was a lie and her conscience could hardly bear it.
She began to ease back until her hands were on his chest.
“What’s wrong?”
She couldn’t meet his gaze so she leaned her head against his chest. “There’s something else I need to tell you, I just don’t know how.”
He chuckled softly. “I’m guessing you’ve been with other men.”
He’d given her an out. “When I was much younger.”
She felt him grow still. “It’s been awhile, then?”
“Yes.”
“You want to slow this down?”
“I do. I think it would be wise.”
He rubbed her back and she could feel his chest rise and fall as he took a series of slow, deep breaths.
She had to tell him the truth, but it was so hard.
A memory flew back at her, biting her with sharp teeth. When it had become widely known that Ferrenden Peace really did exist and was ruled by a queen, Stone had requested an audience with her. She’d received him formally, sitting on her throne, feeling like an imposter, but holding her head high. This was months before she’d learned she could transform into ‘Aralynn’.
Even then, she could recall how she’d responded to the sight of him, to his muscled body and the tattoos that she could see rising on his neck. She wondered how many his Guardsman outfit concealed.
