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I’ll give her that. My lips skate down her throat and I love that little shiver. “Much better.” I slide a hand into her hair and tip her head back so I can kiss her deeper. My body pins her still and I take my time thrusting into her warm entrance that squeezes me tighter and tighter. When I feel the familiar flutter of her pussy, I tear my mouth away, holding her jaw firm, forcing her to look at me. “Come for me, just like that . . .”

Her mouth drops open and her hips roll as she shatters, whimpering my name.

A smile blooms on my face and I trail my thumb over her plush bottom lip. She yields to the swells of ecstasy and I fucking love it. I nod, encouraging her through it. “You’re doing so good. That’s it, baby, just like that. Keep going . . . Christ, you’re so fucking pretty when you come.”

I bite down on a groan, driving into her hard just the way she likes. My hips slow as she comes down from the high.

“Put your back against the headboard,” she pants. “I want to be on top.”

I don’t hesitate, sitting with my back to the upholstered pink frame and holding my hand out to guide her into place. She takes it and drops to her knees, making me groan when she lowers herself onto me. “Fucking hell.”

She captures my mouth with hers, nipping at my bottom lip, using just enough aggression to tempt me into showing how vicious I can be. Palming the back of her neck, I hold her in place. My tongue licks and teases as my hand edges to the front of her throat, fanning out gentle and possessive until she’s a puddle. Anna fights to maintain a semblance of rhythm while she rides my cock. Watching her control slip is utterly adorable.

“Aww, are you losing focus?”

She fumbles slightly, getting frustrated, but obtains a tempo she’s comfortable with.

“See? I knew you could do it. Good girl,” I taunt.

“Be nice to me,” she says with a hint of threat in her voice.

“I’ll be so fucking nice to you, Duchess. Just wait.”

Her eyes are half lidded as she grasps onto the headboard behind me, using it as leverage to move up and down my cock painted with her wetness. Unreal. My hands roam over her thighs and ass, letting her eat up every inch of me.

“I want you to remember this—” she begins. “How loved you are, how wanted, Casper.”

I snake my hand between us, circling my thumb over her clit, then swipe her arousal over her nipple and suck it off. “I’m going to love you the way I should have from the start.”

“Don’t be perfect, Casper . . . just be mine.” She lifts my chin to look at her. “I want you to love me in every beautifully vicious way you know how.”

I blow out a breath and wrap my arms around her, hauling her into me and licking across her lower lip, giving her a taste of herself. “My love can be savage and dangerous, but goddamn, you hold all of it. Even the darkest parts of me will always turn soft for you.”

Anna will never know devotion greater than mine.

Even when she pushes me closer and closer to losing control, I handle her carefully, with intention. I lick into her mouth while my hands map every curve. She moans, and I swallow it.

“I’m not going to be able to take much more from this sweet cunt of yours.”

She wraps her arms around my neck, driving me insane with those little whimpered breaths. “I’m not going anywhere. Let go, Casper,” she purrs. “Come for me.”

Those words hardly seem fair with the way my body reacts, the release tearing through me hard enough to blank my mind for a second. She’s fucking me. Her body clamps around mine as she comes and it drives my climax even higher. I come with her name on my lips. Her little body crashes over me hard, the kind of release that no longer resembles pleasure but complete and total surrender. It’s emotional and rough, the way she completely has me undone.

I hold her through every tremor, every gasp, stretching out every second of shared bliss. She’s a beautiful mess.

When our breathing finally slows, she presses her lips to my neck while my hand sinks into her hair. I close my eyes, our chests falling in sync. All my life love has felt like something you lose. Always temporary and conditional, but cradling each other like this, I know it’s here to stay.

She tilts her head, resting it on my shoulder. “Let’s move in together.”

I chuckle. “Okay.”

“Really?” she asks, the grin audible in her voice.

“Whatever you want, Duchess.”

She sighs happily. “Okay, then. It’s settled.”

“That was simple.”