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My core fluttered with heat in response. With need.
No. I couldn’t lose control. Couldn’t lose the thrill of victory that had started to build inside me.
With renewed determination, I took him even deeper and deeper, gagging myself on his length until his restraint brokefree. Untilhewas thrusting himself into me with each pump, that groan finally rumbling out of his chest. And…
Now. Steeler’s focus was gone. I could remove myself now.
But I didn’t want to stop. Couldn’t find it in me to quit sucking and tasting and letting the enormity that washimslam into my mouth again and again, until that burn in my core swelled and hummed.
My eyes snapped upward to lock with his.
As soon as our gazes slammed into each other, he erupted.
His release poured into my mouth, so much of it that even as I gulped some of it down, more just spilled out of the sides of my lips.
At the same time, the entire world trembled with every word Steeler couldn’t manage to say through the groans of his climax.
Rayna. Rayna. Rayna. You’re here. You’re divine. You’re everything.
Oh, God. No. I couldn’t allow my pleasure to grow any longer. If I did, I was sure Steeler would return the favor, and thenI’dbe the one trapped here for eternity, and I’d forget about his memories entirely.
With my heart thundering as surely as if I’d truly just sucked Steeler dry in real life, I ripped myself away, jumped up, and lunged around him, my hand already outstretched.
The door of his gate sprung open for me as soon as my palm pressed against it—unlocked now that his focus had burst through his grasp.
And resisting the urge to look over my shoulder to catch sight of Steeler’s reaction, I launched myself through the gateway.
Right into the maze of his mind.
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Steeler’s maze wasn’t a tangle of alleyways like mine.
It was more like a multilayered spiral.
Those marble walls curved and curved as I ran, other spiraled paths sprouting off the main one and herding me continuously inward. There was no snow to muffle my footsteps here, so each one of them clacked against the moonstone as I took one of those side paths and—
Steeler appeared in front of me between blinks.
He’d buttoned his pants back up, and there wasn’t a single tussled part of his hair or flush in his cheeks to indicate that I’d just sucked the life out of him. Even so, the smoky quartz of his eyes glittered with… something.
I didn’t halt long enough to figure it out.
Pivoting on a heel, I took another pathway, cursing those walls that only ever curved with smooth precision. Noise bubbled from a patch of mist up ahead, sounding a lot like my laughter used to…
But then Steeler appeared in front of meagain, blocking my path forward.
A scream of frustration ripped out of me. I turned and sprinted back to the main pathway, aiming for another pocket of noisy mist that echoed from the entrance to a smaller path up ahead.
Only for Steeler to appear in front of me again.
And again.
And again.
But I wouldn’t quit perusing his mind until I’d found one. Justone single memorythat didn’t seem to exist within me anymore. Justone damned explanationfor the yearning I couldn’t shake off when I looked into his eyes and saw entire galaxies swirling within.
