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and her eyelids fluttering. Her hair was a mess around her
head. Short strands of honey blonde hair stood straight out from its roots.
    “Open your eyes.” Lucas
kissed each eyelid. “We aren’t finished yet,” he explained and then chuckled at
her surprise.
    “That wasn’t it? I don’t
think I can…” Ella’s words were cut short by Lucas’s thrust. He positioned
himself carefully so she would feel him rubbing along that same sensitized clit
that had moments before sent her flying. He knew it would still be sensitive.
    “I’m positive you can.”
Lucas leaned down and took her lower lip between his teeth, lightly nipping at
her flesh and then soothing it with his tongue. “Feel how perfectly we fit together.”
    Lucas flexed inside her
again, pushing himself forward and spreading her legs even wider. He watched as
Ella’s eyes looked down toward where they were joined before she sought out his
eyes. Her gray blue eyes lit up, mesmerized and transfixed as she felt him
shift his hips back, drag his cock out against her clit and then press back in again.
Whimpering and shaking, Ella pushed her hips forward to meet his thrusts. He didn’t
stop his motion as he strove to push against the mass of sensation swelling
around them.
    Feeling his own release
close, Lucas sank his cock deep into her core even as he felt her inner muscles
contracting around him. He balanced himself so that he could reach down with
his hand to pinch her puffy little clit. Like magic, Ella came again even as
Lucas came. The spasms swept over him for long moments. His cock refused to
soften, a common occurrence in mated males to assure a complete joining with
their mate. Lucas smiled at the reminder that already their mating had begun. For
the remainder of their time, Lucas and Ella would take their nourishment from
one another.
    As a woman in the Magdalena Circle , she was a destined
mate of a Valendite Breed. While she provided him strength and life through her
blood, his blood would bring her lengthened life. They would live and die
together, a thought that very much pleased him. Lucas remained inside her,
dreaming of their future, as they held each other and waited for sleep to take
them.

 
     
     
     
    Chapter
Three
     
    Ella awoke with a warm
body next to her and a tightening in her lower stomach. That need she’d first
felt when she’d met Lucas continued to thrum inside her even after spending the
last few months here with him. She was shocked to realize she needed more of him
each day despite falling asleep out of sheer exhaustion each night begging for
mercy. Now she couldn’t remember ever sleeping as soundly as she did in his
arms. Lucas made her feel safe, and loved and so, so hot. Goddess, she needed
to get up and splash water on her face.
    Slipping her legs from
the sheet, Ella slowly moved to the edge of the bed but got no further than an
inch or two before Lucas’s arm banded around her waist and pulled her back.
    “Just where do you
think you’re sneaking off to?”
    “I’d like to take a
shower,” Ella explained.
    “Sounds like fun,”
Lucas purred into her ear, his voice still sleep-roughened. “I think I need a
shower too.” Still, he made no move to get up as he gathered Ella closer. She
felt his erection at her back and wiggled her bottom into him. He inhaled
sharply, let out a long moan and bit down on her shoulder.
    “How can we possibly
want more?” Ella asked even as her body began to tingle. Her skin came alive,
her flesh on fire everywhere he touched.
    “ Mi amo , I don’t know if I’ll ever have
enough.” Lucas continued nibbling at the tendons in her neck, alternating with
sucking and licking the tender spots, until Ella couldn’t stay still.
    “I’m not sure I will
either,” Ella conceded before tilting her head to give him greater access.
    “Your neck is
tempting.”
    “I’m not stopping you.”
    “I know but I’m trying
real damn hard to not overwhelm you.” Lucas sighed. “Are