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Our breaths slowed and mingled, noses touching. The heat from his body drew me closer until we pressed together from head to toe.
It was the sweetest, most heartbreaking kiss of my life. When he pulled away, our lips clung until the last possible moment that we had to break contact.
My eyelashes fluttered open in a daze. He smiled tenderly.
“I just had to do that,” he said, his blue eyes full of devotion.
“What…?” I licked my suddenly dry lips and cleared my throat before I could ask, “Why?”
“I wanted to kiss you one time,” he said, gazing down at me and barely caressing my cheek with the tips of his fingers as if in awe that he was actually touching me. “While we were both alive and one of us wasn’t bringing the other back from the dead. I had to. Just once.”
“But why now?” I asked, shaking my head.
The look in his eyes told me the truth before he confessed, “Because now I see why my mark chose you.”
My lips parted.
“Urban,” I rasped.
My soul melted into a puddle of delight.
He might have loved me before, because the mark had nudged him into feeling the emotion, but in this moment, right here in the sand, he’d just fallen in love with me because he wanted to.
Elation swelled in my chest. I didn’t think my next actions through. I just reacted, reaching for the front of his shirt until I had a fistful of cloth bunched within my fingers. Then I jerked him toward me until our mouths crashed back together.
He met my kiss eagerly, opening and thrusting his tongue. I tangled mine with his and pressed my aching breasts to his chest, straining against him, my body craving more, craving everything.
“God, Vienne,” he groaned as his mouth left mine only to kiss his way along my jaw and down my throat. “I didn’t mean to start this, I swear.”
“I know, I know,” I assured him, out of breath as I ran my fingers up his neck and around the back of his head, delighting in the shape of him under my palms. My teeth nipped at his earlobe, making him groan. “But I want this. I want it so bad.”
“God, you tempt me, my lady. I know you’re loyal, and respectable, and faithful, but when you say shit like that, it’s damn near impossible not to give you exactly what you say you want.”
“Then give it to me,” I begged, moving my hand down between his legs and gripping the hardness I found under the cloth of his trousers, so he would know exactly what I wanted.
“Fuck,” he groaned, and lowered me to the ground, right there. “I know there are reasons we’re not supposed to do this, but I can’t think of a single one right now. God, Vienne. Can you remember why?”
“No,” I rasped, breathlessly, loving the feel of my hands in his hair and his body covering mine as we lay on the warm sand together. “I can only focus on how much I want you.”
“Me too.” His mouth teased mine and his fingers cupped one of m
y breasts through the front of my dress before he tightened his grip just enough to make me wince.
“Sorry,” he said instantly, sprinkling kisses across the top of my chest in apology. “I should’ve remembered how full and sore they must be from always feeding Anni—”
The word died in his throat before he finished her name, and I think we both remembered at the same moment.
“Soren would take her away from you forever if he knew what we were doing,” Urban murmured in my ear as he froze on top of me.
I gulped painfully and nodded my head slowly. “And he’d behead you.”
Pulling back just enough to meet my gaze, his eyes showed agony when he whispered, “We have to stop, don’t we?”
My chest ached. I touched his cheek. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
“No.” He kissed my forehead. Then he pressed his brow to mine and closed his eyes. “Don’t be sorry. Don’t ever be sorry.”
A tear slid down my cheek. “But it feels as if I’m being forced to choose between you and my daughter. It’s not right. Why can’t I just love you both, openly and freely?”
