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will find you while we’re here. Unless you’re counting Zane and me. We plan to use every wicked trick in the book on you until you tell us everything that happened tonight.” Lucian cocked a brow and continued, unaware of her warring emotions his words stirred up. He leaned in and lowered his voice to whisper close to her ear, his hand pressed to the back of her head to draw her closer. She followed his lead. If only for one more moment with him.
    “God, we thought we lost you. The drive back from Hope Ridge was the fucking loneliest eighty miles I’ve ever driven.” Thick with fear, his voice cracked and his arm tightened a little more.
    She tilted her head back and kept her eyes open as he lowered his lips to hers leisurely. If she thought denying him would be hard, it would be totally impossible with him looking down at her with so much love. As if she would break, he brushed a soft kiss over hers, his fingers working into her thick hair.
    Tears threatened to show at the tenderness her enforcer showered her with, but she forced solid steel into her weak resolve. No one said it would be easy to disconnect her heart and let her men go. Oh, goddesses look away, woman . Why could she never listen to her own advice! Instead she parted her lips in anticipation as Lucian peered down at her with ruby red eyes framed in thick black lashes. Damn, were those her knees trembling? She placed her hands on his chest to steady herself and felt the strong beat of his heart.
    Do it, woman, she mentally slapped herself. Or else they could get hurt in a way there wouldn’t be any coming back from.
    Breathy, she forced herself to speak. “Luc, this can’t...” A sudden bow of his head and a sweep of his tongue along her lower lip and nothing else mattered. An energy she’d never felt before zinged to life inside her. Before she could stop herself, Marabelle wound her arms around his neck, carried forward by an invisible force exposed in the golden shadows of the room that wrapped them within a protective cocoon.
    Drifting closer still, their bodies melded together as if they were made for the other. Pressed together from hips to shoulders, her nipples stiffened behind the confines of her bra and for a moment, she wished she’d never found her clothing or left the warm confines of the bed.
    Her tongue darted out and slid over his in a sensual tease.
    Marabelle nearly melted on contact. Fierce, possessive need took hold within her as Lucian fisted her hair and pulled her mouth fully over his. Did he feel the pull too? The uncontrollable need to possess?
    The warm, claiming caress of his tongue along hers sent a burst of heat to skim along her nerves and left a lingering taste of bittersweet citrus in her mouth. Somewhere in the back of her mind she wondered about that.
    Her sex clenched and throbbed with need and everything fell to the wayside. His body, her need and the tight coil in her core demanded she satisfy the urge he created within her.
    His hand fell from the lengths of her hair and caressed down the slope of her back until he cupped her bottom in a firm grasp. Liquid dampened her panties and a growl of appreciation rumbled up his chest as the scent hit the air.
    “Don’t even try to deny it, baby girl. There’s no way you’re slipping from our grasp now that we have you right where you belong.”
    She sucked back a gasp. How’d he know?
    It didn’t matter. Nothing did. Hades on fire. Not when the steel length of his erection pressed against her lower midriff and nearly had her melting into a puddle of need at his feet. Both were dressed, but it didn’t matter. She could feel every engorged ridge of his confined cock beneath the rough denim of his jeans.
    “You’re beautiful when you’re flushed and horny.” His voice dipped to a low hum and he teased her with a smile. He glanced the back of his knuckles across her overheated cheek and a familiar heat bloomed in her core to spread through her body like wildfire