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Grinding into me.

Slowly. Sensually.

Until my tense muscles relax and the painful stretch turns to scorching-hot pleasure.

With each new inch, I melt against him, begging for more.

Soothingly sexy words kiss my lips as I dig my nails into his shoulders.

Dying to get him deeper.

Clawing to get him closer.

Because I still need more... I want it all ... Everything.

What I wouldn’t give if it meant I could keep him.

“Stay with me, Lennon,” he growls, sensing my warring thoughts. His hand tightens on my throat and lights up my soul as he finally seats himself fully inside me, and we both suck in a breath with the absolute perfection of the moment. Of us.

He releases my throat and moves his hold to my face. To my jaw. Holding me hostage while our tongues dance a savage duet. His hips snap against mine, and I moan, loud and long, dragging my nails down his muscled back until I’m gripping the strong, powerful globes of his ass. Urging him on. Needing him impossibly deeper.

“Maddox...”

“Fuck, Lennon.” His lips pepper my jaw. My neck. My collarbones. Until he dips down and licks a lazy circle around my nipple, and my back bows off the bed.

Electricity courses through me, and I pull him closer—deeper—as he sets a punishing rhythm. With every strong thrust of his hips, his incredible body owns mine. Fucking me harder and harder until I’m not sure where he stops and I start. Until I’m not sure I can take any more. Until I’m chasing a high I’ve never felt.

Only then do his hands slide under me and grip my ass. Lifting me. Holding me. Changing the angle and driving into me again and again until my vision dims, and all I see is him.

“Tell me you’re mine, Lennon.” Maddox’s brilliant blue eyes burn like an electric flame as they lock on mine.

I crash my mouth to his, giving him all of me and the only answer I have to give.

“Yours,” I whisper, both of us knowing it’s the truth wrapped in a vicious, cruel lie.

Intense and overwhelming and threatening to destroy us both.

I’m back on that sword’s edge, balancing.

“Yours,” I whisper again as he fucks into me over and over.

It’s heaven and hell.

Purity doused in lies.

But even if only for tonight, I’m his...

“Mia principessa...” he whispers, and a beautiful flame erupts, burning blue in his eyes.

I gasp his name on a silent scream as my body tenses, and my orgasm washes over me, warm and heavy, drowning me as I cling to him.

Giving me life and taking it away in one moment frozen in time.

My dark prince tenses as he follows me over the cliff with my name falling from his lips, a sacred benediction. One I know I’ll hear every time I close my eyes in my daydreams and nightmares.

We fall to the bed, a tangle of limbs, heavy breaths, and heavier thoughts. No space between us until Maddox climbs out of bed and gets rid of the condom. He comes back with a warm washcloth, bringing a silent tear to my eye. No one would ever believe how kind and gentle this man can be, but with me... he’s never shown me any other side.

And once he climbs back into bed, I pull him down to me, needing to feel his weight again. I run my nails through his thick, dark hair and hum until he relaxes and eventually begins to doze off. “Don’t leave, Lennon.”

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