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From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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Myy choice.

I took a deep breath, and the burning lessened. Hawke remained still

above me, waiting. Tentativelyy, I lifted myy hips against his. It stung, but

not as severelyy as before. I tried it again. Hawke shuddered, but he didn’t

move. Not until myy grip on his shoulders loosened, and myy breath caught

for an entirelyy different reason. There was a burning friction, but it wasn’t

the same. Muscles low in myy stomach tightened as a ripple of pleasure

skittered through me.

Onlyy then did Hawke move, and he did so carefullyy, so gentlyy that I

felt tears prick myy eyyes. I closed them as I curled myy arms around his

neck, letting myyself get lost in the madness once more, in the building

crescendo of sensations. Some kind of primal instinct took hold, guiding

myy hips to follow his. We were moving together, the onlyy sound in the

room that of myy softer sighs and his deeper moans. That exquisite, almost

painful coiling sensation returned. Myy legs lifted of their own accord,

curling around his hips. The pressure was building inside me once more,

but it was more potent this time.

Hawke worked his arm under myy head and curled his hand around myy

shoulder as the grip of his other hand tightened on myy hip. He began to

move faster, deeper, his thrusts stronger as he held me in place under him.

I held onto him, myy mouth blindlyy finding his as his hand slipped between

us. His thumb found that sensitive area, and when his hips churned against

mine in tight circles, the tension exploded once more. I cried out as the

sensation whipped through me, more intense and biting than before. The

release he’d given me earlier somehow felt like nothing compared to this.

I was shattering into pieces in the best possible wayy, and it was onlyy when

the last wave seemed to have crested that I became aware of those intense

golden eyyes fixed to myy face as he slipped his hand out from under me. I

knew at once he’d been watching the entire time, and a breathyy moan left

me.

I placed a trembling hand on his cheek. “Hawke,” I whispered,

wishing I could put to words what I’d just felt—what I was still feeling.

His features turned stark, and his jaw tensed, and then he…he seemed

to lose whatever control he had left. His bodyy pounded against mine,

moving us across the bed. Under myy hands, his muscles flexed and rolled,

and then his head kicked back, and he cried out, shuddering.

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