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vest down.

    “ It is not that
simple,” he whispered and kissed her collarbone. “I cannot bite you
there.”

    “ Somewhere
else?” She was aware of how desperate that made her sound but she
didn’t care. She wanted to feel him bite her. She wanted to feel
his need for her and know that this wasn’t a dream. Dreams. He had
asked her to tell him about them. “I’ve dreamt of you biting
me.”

    Van groaned and his arm
around her waist tightened, pressing her so hard against him that
she could barely breathe.

    “ You always
bite me... it always feels... I can’t explain it.”

    “ Try,” he
whispered and licked the cut on her throat again. “Try for
me.”

    “ Divine,”
Amerii said and he moaned and bucked his hips against her. Her eyes
widened at the feel of his hard length against her stomach. The
thought that she was affecting him so much with nothing more than
simple words gave her the confidence to say a little more.
“Divine... exquisite... like nothing I’ve ever experienced
before.”

    “ Where,” he
muttered, his voice trembling. He kissed up to her jaw and she
tilted her head to one side. “Tell me where I bite you.”

    She had never had to say
things like this before. It was embarrassing and only made worse by
the fact that she was talking about her fantasies with the object
of them.

    She cleared her throat and
stroked his chest, slowly moving towards the buttons of his jacket.
She needed to feel him skin on skin with her. She wanted to see the
svelte body that she knew his uniform concealed.

    He kissed her
shoulder.

    “ Here?” he
whispered and she nodded. He took hold of her wrist, stopping her
attempts to get him naked, and kissed the inside of it.
“Here?”

    She nodded
again.

    His hands grazed her
stomach. “Here?”

    She bit her lip and
nodded.

    He stepped up to her and
pressed a solitary kiss to her throat. “Here?”

    She moaned her
reply.

    “ More than
once?”

    “ Almost every
time,” she whispered and trembled when he closed his lips around
her throat and sucked. She ached for him to bite her, her body
tightening and yearning for his touch.

    “ Do you know
what a bite here means?” His voice was a sultry whisper in her ear,
sending warm shivers dancing down her spine.

    Amerii shook her head, her
hands going back to work on the buttons of his jacket. When she had
it open, she dipped her hands inside, pushing the two sides of his
jacket apart. He was naked beneath it. She groaned at the feel of
hard muscles and tight sinew. Filled with a need to see what she
was touching, she pushed him gently backwards, and furrowed her
brow when she saw his body.

    In all her times on Lyra
Six, she had never seen such a perfect example of masculinity.
Every muscle was taut and pronounced, but not overly developed. His
body was lithe and powerful, calling to her on a base level where
she had no control. She wanted to taste every inch of his flesh, to
spend long hours exploring his body. She wanted to feel that body
against hers, filling her, knowing that it would be every bit as
wonderful as she had imagined.

    Van pulled her back to
him.

    “ If I bite you
here.” He spoke the words between kisses against her throat. Each
kiss made her temperature rise a little more until she was burning
with need. “It means that you are mine.”

    “ Yours?” Amerii
said and, in her desire-hazed mind, she liked the sound of it. She
kept her mouth closed tight though, not wanting to voice her
thoughts. He had said that he wouldn’t bite her there but she knew
that it didn’t mean that he didn’t want to. It meant that he didn’t
feel worthy of staking a claim on her. His mention of her royal
status hadn’t gone unnoticed. She didn’t care that she was royalty.
As far as she was concerned, she chose who she wanted to be
with.

    Given time, she was sure
that she could change his mind and convince him to bite her on what
was clearly a sacred place. Sophia had said that Regis