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Quirking her brow, she teased, “I’m sure many women have screamed your name, James.”
“Not like you. You scream it like you want to devour me.” He lowered, sealing their bodies together. “Your animal recognizes mine, Nina. It’s a hunter, a fighter, a killer when necessary. When there isn’t a threat, it purrs and uses its teeth for things other than ripping and tearing.”
Adjusting his body, he pushed her shorts off her legs. He licked his fingers and fondled her clit until she started rocking her hips to meet him.
Settling between her thighs, he rubbed his cock through her folds and she gritted her teeth against the pleasure.
“Even in the heat of fucking, there’s an edge of danger with you that I can’t get enough of. Even when you come, you aren’t truly vulnerable.” He stilled. “Did you start the new birth control?” She nodded.
Moving slowly, James reached between them and positioned the head of his cock at her pussy. He stared at her and Nina knew he’d get a condom if she objected to what he wanted.
She didn’t object.
Pushing forward, he buried himself to the balls and wrapped his arms around her tightly. Keeping her upper body immobile, he fucked her in short, brutal thrusts.
“With you, I willingly expose my throat, Nina. Iknowyou could rip it out and I don’t fucking care. That’s what makes you different from every person I touched before you.” He kissed her with an edge of violence and she returned it. Pulling back, he stared into her eyes. “It’s what makes me love you when I didn’t think I’d ever love anyone.”
She cried silently but couldn’t respond.
“It could take a decade for you to tell me you love me, Nina. Maybe you never will.” His thrusts got faster, harder. “The thing is, I don’t need to hear the words. Your actions and what you allow tell me all I need to know. That’s what makesmedifferent from every person who touchedyoubefore me.”
Barely audible, she moaned, “James…”
“That’s right, sweetheart. Know the name of the man who breached your impenetrable walls. The first man to take you bare with your consent.” Then she came around him and all of it was different, new. He drove into her body three times and joined her, filling her with his come. He growled, “The animal who loves your animal, Nina.”
He loosened his hold and she hugged him as tight as she could. Shaking, gasping for air, she pressed her face to his neck as her heart trembled in her chest.
“D-don’t give up on me, James.” She didn’t mean to say the words aloud.
He wrapped his body around her, holding as much of her as he could, and held the back of her head. “Keep fighting, you beautiful creature. When you’re ready to take my hand, I’ll pull you out, Nina. I’ll never give up on you. I swear it.”
Holding him harder, Nina realized that - for the second time in her life - she had something to lose.
She was terrified.
* * *
The night of Bennett Jefferson’s birthday, Nina barely contained her shock at the changes in the man.
As if he’d found the fountain of youth.
Rowan was dressed in a gorgeous, unmistakably sexual evening gown and her husband frequently stroked his fingers over her exposed skin.
For the first time, he showed the world the true level of hunger he had suppressed for his young wife. They kissed, danced, and Bennett pampered the woman he loved with touch she’d been denied throughout their marriage.
Nina struggled to play her role.
Miss Jeffries whispered, “Nina…? Honey, what is it?”
Pulling herself together, she answered, “All the strength you’ve ever had...you’re going to need to pour it into Rowan. I’ll do what I can but I’m notlikeyou. No one could ever be like you.”
The older woman looked at the dancing couple and murmured, “Nina. You know somethin’.”
“Strength, Miss Jeffries. All you can give her.”
Nina walked away and Gage lightly grabbed her upper arm. “What the fuck is goin’ on? Bennett wants us here for two weeks but he looks better than he ever has. Nina…”
“Listen to me, Gage.” She took a deep breath. “I need you to keep your shit together. No matter what happens, you keep your shittogether. All that love you’ve been carrying around for Rowan for a decade, you’re going to prove it now. Get ready togiveto her, takingnothing, for as long as she needs it.”
