Nicholas’s mouth was hot on mine. His body pinned me to the door.

I attacked his lips with my own, eager to burn away any trace of that mystery woman who had been there before me today. Lilliana? Olivia? It didn’t matter who. My mind was flooded with angry, scalding

jealousy.

Maybe Nicholas couldn’t be mine forever, but here, for the duration of this moment, I was staking my

claim.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pushed my fingers through his hair.

He coaxed my lips open. It was no great feat.

When his tongue slipped into my mouth, I was ready and waiting for it.

As our tongues tangled, his hands wandered. He’d started at my hips, but in an impatient instant, his fingers slipped under the waist hem of my shirt and teased at the bare skin of my stomach.

gave me exactly one half–second before he plunged back in and stole my

all over again.

like a brand. I was laying my claim on him, but he was just as easily doing the same to me.

beneath it. His palm laid flat against the side of my ribs. Then, inch by small inch,

brushed against the bare side of my breast,

moan and a plea

he cupped more

this time as a sigh.

mine, even when all we did was breathe on each other.

to give up my claim

low and rough. “You want me all

was so easy to admit like this, safe in the circle of his arms, with his lips brushing

my moan. At the same moment, his hand shifted,

felt so good. I couldn’t remember the last time I had been touched like this – and wanted it. I was desperate for him. For

was ready to lose myself.

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