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give me one.”
    Racha closed her eyes. Her mind churned over how to tell him. She didn’t want to bind a man to her who didn’t want her, but she feared he would accept her mark out of some sense of obligation. Just like he’d finally given in and helped her release the power.
    She’d survived the awakening. Perhaps the Council would understand if she failed to mark him. They could let Corey find another female more to his liking and send Racha a mate who was willing.
    She gasped when his fingertips reached her core and teased along her lips, still wet from their combined juices. He sank his fingers into her slowly, then drew them back out again and teased around her clit in tortuous, slow circles. Even though he’d untied her, she was too mesmerized by his touch to move away.
    When he pulled his hand away after a second, her hips raised up on their own, seeking contact.
    “Please,” she whispered. “I need more of you.”
    In truth, she was depleted of all but the barest wisp of power now. If he would only bury himself in her again and give her more, perhaps she could think of the right answers.
    “More of this?” He leaned down beside her and flicked his tongue over her nipple while his fingers moved back between her thighs, caressing just enough to make her crave more, but not giving it to her.
    “Yes, more!”
    “Answer my question first. Why didn’t you mark me?”
    Just when her throbbing need had subsided and she thought she could regain her senses, he began again. He thrust his fingers deeper and teased her clit so expertly she thought she might just lose control. Except he stopped again.
    She nearly cried out in frustration until she felt a hot, hard pressure pulse against her hip. Her eyes flew open and she looked at him.
    He gazed down at her, a fevered expression on his face. He looked almost haggard with longing.
    Experimentally, she shifted her hips slightly so that she rubbed against him.
    Corey’s eyelids fluttered and fell shut. His hand came to rest on her mound again, fingers gently stroking as before.
    “You still want me?” she whispered.
    His voice came out in a rough growl. “Like nothing I’ve wanted in my life.” His eyes opened again and he met her gaze.
    In those brown depths she saw the truth of his words, and it shattered her. The tears began again, only this time they weren’t from sorrow or regret.
    She sat up abruptly and captured his mouth with hers.
    Corey tried to push her back, a mumbled objection making it to her ears, but she pushed harder, forcing him back against her pillows. He went, pulling her with him.
    She kept kissing him, peppering his face, his neck, his chest with more kisses, elated at finally understanding. Once she let him have his breath and had moved down his torso, he let out a low, frustrated grumble.
    “You gonna answer my question?”
    She only nodded and smiled up at him from between his legs. She would answer all his questions, but first she needed more of him.
    His hard shaft was coated with the flavor of them both. She savored every inch when she slipped her mouth over his tip and down, licking and sucking as she went.
    “Oh, fuck, baby. You’re driving me crazy. Do you…” He seemed intent on saying more, but the rest only came out as a strangled groan when his hips rose up off the bed in a violent jerk.
    His orgasm flooded her tongue as sweetly as the power it carried into her with his abating pleasure. The sweet rush of his Nirvana invigorated her, cleared her mind and conscience, and left nothing behind but the exultation of being with him and knowing he was not unwilling as she had believed a few moments earlier.
    She crawled back up his body and lay fully atop his panting chest.
    He gazed up at her, a perplexed and slightly irritated smile on his face that disappeared as he let out a hearty laugh.
    “That was nice. More than nice. But you’re not off the hook that easily,” he said.
    “I am an open book,” she said with a