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simply overrides it. But why do I need you, do you think?”
    Finally she pulled from him. She didn’t move away, but snuggled into his waiting embrace, head cradled in the hollow of his neck. The action pained her, but only a little. She could feel the flesh weaving together on her back.
    â€œWhen I was a child, my mother mated with a man and left the Amazon camp to live with him. They had no money and so they…sold me, time and time again,” she said, heat spreading over her cheeks. “I know the desire to never again be touched by another. But with you…”
    â€œOh, sweet. I am so sorry.”
    That gentle tone brought tears to her eyes.
    He wrapped his arm around her, careful of her injuries. “You once told me your family had destroyed you, that you had killed them for it, but I had no idea they’d done such things to you,” he said.
    She flattened her palm against his chest, exactly as she’d wanted to do all these months while watching him. His heart beat, fast and hard. “Maybe we remind each other of what we were like, before. Unafraid, untainted. Maybe we see the future in each other and the past ceases to matter.”
    He didn’t reply, which disappointed her. Instead, he settled her onto the blankets and   sat up, which angered her. Did he not want a future with her? Was that what his silence signified? Did he—
    He traced a fingertip along her spine, and she shivered. “All healed,” he said huskily. “And now, all mine.”
    Thank the gods. She wasn’t sure what she would have done if he’d rebuffed her as she’d once done him.
    â€œMake love to me, Zane.” She’d never been with a man of her choosing. Never given herself completely. She was suddenly desperate to know what that was like. With this man. Only this man, who was surely a gift from the heavens, even amid her curse. “Please.”

Chapter Seven
    Zane flipped Nola to her back so that she was peering up at him. A gasp escaped her, but she didn’t try to scramble away, even though he loomed above her, dressed in his blood-splattered battle clothes while she was naked.
    Her breasts were small but firm, perfectly tipped with hard pink nipples. Her stomach was flat, her skin sun-kissed and smooth. He could see every ridge of her ribs and knew she hadn’t eaten since his departure six days ago. Damn her sisters! Had she not already been through enough torment, without her tribe adding to it?
    He was going to burn away the images of what they’d done to her. Burn away the memories of the men who had used her. He would replace both with thoughts of himself. He didn’t care what he had to do to accomplish it.
    â€œHave you ever experienced pleasure in the act?” he asked.
    Up and down her chest rose with the force of her breathing. “No. You?”
    â€œLong, long ago.” He only prayed he remembered how to please his woman. With the demon queen, he hadn’t cared to try. He’d simply endured. Never had a female’s enjoyment been more important to him. “If I scare you, do something you don’t like, tell me.”
    She nodded, nervously licked her lips. “You tell me, as well.”
    It was his turn to nod. Rather than suck on her nipples as he desired, he lifted himself   off her, reached behind him and tugged off his shirt. He tossed it aside. His boots and pants quickly followed, leaving him as bare as she was.
    Nola’s gaze traveled the length of him, and fire leapt inside her turquoise eyes. “Zane…”
    â€œAfraid?”
    â€œNo. You won’t hurt me. I just wanted you to know I like what I see.”
    Her trust emboldened him, as did her praise. Gently he eased atop her. Skin against skin, hardness against softness. They moaned in unison. Contact with anyone else, even his king, was hell. Contact with Nola was heaven. Her legs opened, allowing him a deep cradle.
    â€œI want