Ar

room like he couldn't believe I'd actua

that you've secured your plac

him. "Secur

e pack won't dare push you aside anymore. You're final

opped. "E

ty women do. They get what they want, then they threaten

t probably sounded a little crazy.

"Aria, you signed up for this. You knew this mar

what the bond forced. But don't you dare stand here and talk

arp and intense. "I've sacrificed

y, and two years of pretending to be happy

. "You think I ne

ke. "Not the way a husband looks at his wi

d through him. "Don't

ried me was that I got pregnant and forced your hand. They all whispered that Ivy was alway

surface now, his scent roarin

what's the truth? All I've seen for two yea

desperate, like he was dying to sa

ad. "That's w

to her. Go back to whatever life you've been living that makes

ened. "I am not discussin

. "Fine with me. There's

des. "You're not ending our

tch

nst the doorframe and mo

alert. I hated him for knowing

let go

in. "You really think you can leave me? Y

t he was way too strong.

e, uncontrolled instinct, fueled by somet

o the wall, and his mouth crashe

asped again

th he had. Even though every part of me was yelling to push him off

this," he murmured again

d I could feel the he

, and my fingers were tangled in his hair. The room spun

a split second, it was like we were real mates,

mind, confused. "A

, shoving him away. "He's

t to sever the

have

tent that my determin

he growled, pinning

t back. "You'll

xt thing I knew, he shoved me right onto the bed. My he

t to touch me anymore. You lost t

lowered his face to mine, and I c

? You've already done this

retending

way from my lips.

ha

ou don't w

, pathetic part of me did want it. I wa

off, but he was a roc

nd whispered in

ead and gently bit my neck. Not hard enough

mess, whining like crazy. She m

I repeated, my

n, his hands tracing t

, and this time, I

't about love but about something darker, more primal. It was about own

was both familiar and foreign, a ghost of what we once were. My body respond

, so wrong. But

ing that could satisfy his hunger. His hands were under

" I br

ling sound that vibrate

arder, and I k

om mattered. It was just him, me, and this intense heat between us. I started feeling that familiar,

his wet lips kissed my stomach, I grabbed his hair. I was c

s my own body that betrayed me, resp

sping for breath.

top. "We al

ng like he was about to completely destroy me. Pain was hammering through me,

ly pinned me to the bed. I yelled and tried to

that's

kissing my collarbone, his hands exploring my body. I co

go of

ting my smooth skin against his calm

re you

around co

uh

ed to slide two fingers into her wet heat, but he held back just enough. He moved his

athing and the small movement o

kly losing as his fingers got wet with my desire. "Say yes," h

and I could feel his cock wa

't pause, keeping the orgasms coming so intensely that I had to push my forehead against the headb

d me, and

o'd ignored me for a year. This was a side of him I'd nev

harder this time. "

stop,"

action. But my body was betraying me again. I co

. I could feel the sting on my skin, bu

brushing against my ear

moment, then whisp

ipping a finger insi

," I

moaned. He moved them in and out, hitting

" I br

nt me to fuck y

me," I said, my vo

for a second to shuck off his pants, and then

ried out. He was big, stretching me in a way th

h thrust was harder than the last, and I could f

" I cr

, Aria," he

followed me over the edge, spilling himself inside me. The

ed up once it was over. I can feel his breath fanning my n

his arms, putting so

gain. And the next time we touched would be in

*