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it.”
But she only pressed back harder against the wall behind her. “No. Let’s try to find our way out,” she pleaded. “Now. We have hours before the lamplight burns away.”
In a half dozen easy steps, Sevin was standing before her. “It’s too late.” He reached for her, but she ducked away. He stalked her, and easily cut her off when she tried to dart past again. And all the while Lucien only watched, as one predator watches another toy with its prey. At least that was how it seemed to her at the moment, with Venice fresh on her mind.
Sevin caught her in a corner. Bracing his hands on perpendicular walls to either side of her, his arms served as prison gates that entrapped her as he leaned closer and murmured in her ear. “Like me, maybe you didn’t want this to happen between us in this way. Or under these circumstances. But I felt the desire in your kiss this afternoon in your carriage. The Satyr have a talent for reading what women want.”
She averted her face. “Then you must know I don’t want this.”
He tilted her chin higher, brushed his lips over hers, coaxing. “I’m afraid that’s not an option. What happens between us tonight won’t be a hardship, I promise you. There will be only pleasure. Fifty fulfillments, remember?”
Alexa gazed into those unfathomable silver eyes. The instinct to flee battled with the sudden strong spurt of forbidden attraction and feminine curiosity that his promise had inspired. Did she dare? No. She couldn’t truly consider going along with his plans. Even if, ever since she’d first seen him and his brothers, she’d wondered how it might be to find herself the sole object of their passion. Even if, after her brief time in the carriage with him today, she’d dwelled upon his countenance, his heart, his nature, for the rest of the night. Had wondered how it might feel to be covered and dominated by a man such as he. To be the focus of his legendary lust.
Heretofore, such considerations had always been relegated to her unspoken daydreams. They weren’t something she’d expected could ever really happen. Not to her, anyway. She didn’t know Eva’s brothers-in-law—not even Dane—except in passing. And in her fantasies she’d never pictured that there would be two of them with her in a setting such as this.
Still, she knew that Eva had certainly mated with her husband, even during nights when the moon was full. And not only had she lived through it, she appeared happier for the doing of it. Her face lit with pleasure whenever she spoke of Dane.
Sevin was silent as she debated the matter he’d put before her, turning it over and over in her mind until she thought she might faint. She was not meant to lead a passionless life. Nor to align herself with a docile man. Something in her yearned for a fierce sort of loving. But where did the cruelty of Venice end and the heady sort of passion she craved begin? And which might she find with this man? Or was it possible she would find something in between?
“I have some experience at this,” Alexa admitted to him at last, obliquely answering his brother’s earlier question. She could see she’d surprised him. “But not enough for what you’re asking,” she added.
He brushed a lock of her blond hair behind her ear and studied her face. “I can make it so that you won’t remember anything of what happens here when you wake tomorrow. Is that what you want?”
When she didn’t reply, he slowly straightened and caught her face in his hands. His eyes held hers as the pads of his thumbs gently brushed over her cold cheeks. Instantly, she felt a strange sort of calm come over her. Her shoulders relaxed, and her body sagged bonelessly into his. She heard the drugged quality of her voice when she spoke again. “What are you doing to me?”
His hand slipped around her nape under her hair, stroking the tendons there. “Making you forget.”
Forget? Against his chest, Alexa’s brow knit. Tonight she
But she only pressed back harder against the wall behind her. “No. Let’s try to find our way out,” she pleaded. “Now. We have hours before the lamplight burns away.”
In a half dozen easy steps, Sevin was standing before her. “It’s too late.” He reached for her, but she ducked away. He stalked her, and easily cut her off when she tried to dart past again. And all the while Lucien only watched, as one predator watches another toy with its prey. At least that was how it seemed to her at the moment, with Venice fresh on her mind.
Sevin caught her in a corner. Bracing his hands on perpendicular walls to either side of her, his arms served as prison gates that entrapped her as he leaned closer and murmured in her ear. “Like me, maybe you didn’t want this to happen between us in this way. Or under these circumstances. But I felt the desire in your kiss this afternoon in your carriage. The Satyr have a talent for reading what women want.”
She averted her face. “Then you must know I don’t want this.”
He tilted her chin higher, brushed his lips over hers, coaxing. “I’m afraid that’s not an option. What happens between us tonight won’t be a hardship, I promise you. There will be only pleasure. Fifty fulfillments, remember?”
Alexa gazed into those unfathomable silver eyes. The instinct to flee battled with the sudden strong spurt of forbidden attraction and feminine curiosity that his promise had inspired. Did she dare? No. She couldn’t truly consider going along with his plans. Even if, ever since she’d first seen him and his brothers, she’d wondered how it might be to find herself the sole object of their passion. Even if, after her brief time in the carriage with him today, she’d dwelled upon his countenance, his heart, his nature, for the rest of the night. Had wondered how it might feel to be covered and dominated by a man such as he. To be the focus of his legendary lust.
Heretofore, such considerations had always been relegated to her unspoken daydreams. They weren’t something she’d expected could ever really happen. Not to her, anyway. She didn’t know Eva’s brothers-in-law—not even Dane—except in passing. And in her fantasies she’d never pictured that there would be two of them with her in a setting such as this.
Still, she knew that Eva had certainly mated with her husband, even during nights when the moon was full. And not only had she lived through it, she appeared happier for the doing of it. Her face lit with pleasure whenever she spoke of Dane.
Sevin was silent as she debated the matter he’d put before her, turning it over and over in her mind until she thought she might faint. She was not meant to lead a passionless life. Nor to align herself with a docile man. Something in her yearned for a fierce sort of loving. But where did the cruelty of Venice end and the heady sort of passion she craved begin? And which might she find with this man? Or was it possible she would find something in between?
“I have some experience at this,” Alexa admitted to him at last, obliquely answering his brother’s earlier question. She could see she’d surprised him. “But not enough for what you’re asking,” she added.
He brushed a lock of her blond hair behind her ear and studied her face. “I can make it so that you won’t remember anything of what happens here when you wake tomorrow. Is that what you want?”
When she didn’t reply, he slowly straightened and caught her face in his hands. His eyes held hers as the pads of his thumbs gently brushed over her cold cheeks. Instantly, she felt a strange sort of calm come over her. Her shoulders relaxed, and her body sagged bonelessly into his. She heard the drugged quality of her voice when she spoke again. “What are you doing to me?”
His hand slipped around her nape under her hair, stroking the tendons there. “Making you forget.”
Forget? Against his chest, Alexa’s brow knit. Tonight she
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