Page 76 of Act of Passion

The moment the words left her mouth, his desire was doused. She wanted him to take her to her ex-lover? She was going to leavehim.

A slight nod was all he couldmanage.

“Thankyou.”

He lookedaway.

She traced her hand over his leg. “Malik.”

He looked at her and knew he was about to do the one thing he hated to do—he was going tocry.

“I need to make sure he’s okay and I need to tell him something,” she said, still tracing her hand up and down his leg. “He should hear it from me that we’re going to be a family. He shouldn’t hear that from anyoneelse.”

It took Malik a moment to wrap his mind around what she was saying. “You’re not leaving me forhim?”

“No,” she said, sliding her hand under the pillow and touching his cock. “When you asked me to marry you and move in with you years ago, I wanted that. I wanted to be with you. I didn’t know why. I get it now. We’re supposed to be together,right?”

“Yes. A mate is the other half that makes a supernatural whole. You make me feel whole,” he confessed. “Without you, I’m emptyinside.”

She moved up and over him, her lips finding his. Her kiss was hot and branding. He slid his hands through her hair and held her face to him, returning the kiss. He made a move to slide the pillow out from between them and Brooke laughed as she stopped thekiss.

“Malik, we need to go downstairs. Our daughter is currently at an incredibly impressionable age and she’s withStriker.”

When she put it that way, hecringed.

She laughed more. “And besides, we need to discuss some form of birth control or we’ll have another child to add to the mix before you knowit.”

He thought about how he’d released in her, filling her beyond the brink with his seed. The very idea of planting his seed in her again excited him. He wanted a life with her. A big family.Everything.

She kissed his cheek quickly and then eased off him, leaving him too hard to move with any kind of ease. “If I wanted to return the claim, how would I do it? Would I have to bite you during sextoo?”

“Honestly, I don’t know. For me, it was instinctual. I did what felt natural. My body took the lead and I simplyfollowed.”

“I thought I’d hurt you,” she said softly. “When we were having sex, I felt this overwhelming urge to let go of what I can do. To let it be totally free. I was scared of hurting you so I held tight to it. Was that my body trying to return theclaim?”

He sat up slowly, his body stiff, his erection still in full force. “More than likely, yes. But we won’t know exactly what you are until James’s test results comeback.”

“Edee can tell you what I am. She memorized our charts while we were being held. All I wanted to know was if what they did hurt my baby. I didn’t care aboutme.”

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there,” he said, meaning every word ofit.

She nodded. “Iknow.”

Malik toyed with her breast. “I understand that you don’t feel for me what I feel for you, but Brooke, I would like a chance at being a mate to you and a father toBethany.”

She slid up and over him again, licking his thigh on the way up his body. She lifted his cock and licked it as well, making him harden once again in the blink of an eye. “Brooke?”

She caressed his erection lightly. “I can’t let you in again and then not be with you for five years. Do you understandthat?”

He pushed her hair back from her face. “My sweet, I can’t be away from you for a minute. I more than getit.”

She slid her mouth over his cock head and Malik’s body instantly strained. His lion wanted to peek out. He didn’t let it. Brooke moved her mouth down his shaft, taking him to the back of herthroat.

He nearly lost it then and there. “Mysweet.”

Her head bobbed up and down on his cock and she drove him mad with pleasure. The same energy he’d felt five years ago began to emanate from her. He eased in and out of her and all he could think about was being buried to the hilt in her pussy oncemore.

Surrendering to the pull, Malik grabbed for Brooke and lifted her before lining up with her wet core and driving himself into her while he yanked on hershoulders.

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