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the moment, he buried his face in her hair and inhaled the fresh, sweet scent of her as he pressed his skin to hers.
    His body stirred immediately.
    How?
    After the night they’d shared, he should be sated for days to come, and yet here he was craving her in a way that was almost inhuman. He didn’t understand it.
    He pulled away to kiss her shoulder, then froze as he saw her skin in the faint morning light. Frowning, he ran his hand over her bare shoulder and the vicious scars that marred her back. She’d been beaten. Severely by the looks of it.
    Was she a runaway slave?
    She sighed contentedly and snuggled against him. Adron forgot the scars as her buttocks collided with his erection. He tightened his arms around her while he nudged her legs apart with his thigh. God help him, but he wanted more of her.
    Livia came awake to the sensation of Adron behind her, filling her again. “Oh my goodness,” she breathed as he thrust himself deep and hard into her body. Biting her lip, she groaned in pleasure. “Don’t you ever get tired?”
    â€œNot of you, I don’t.”
    She smiled at that. No one had ever made her feel so treasured. And she had to admit, a woman could get used to waking up like this.
    Closing her eyes to savor his long, luscious strokes, she surrendered herself to him.
    She came an instant before he did.
    Livia rolled over to see a gentle smile on his face as he stared at her in wonder.
    â€œThank you, Livia. For everything.”
    She returned his smile. “Thank you.” She placed her lips against his.
    Adron’s senses swirled as he cupped her head in his hand. He was definitely going to keep her in his bed for the rest of the day.
    â€œAdron, you’re not going to believe what—” His father’s voice broke off the instant his bedroom door swung open. Gaping at them lying entwined on the bed, his father froze.
    Then, all hell broke loose.
    Livia dove beneath the covers at the same time a fetid curse rang out.
    Adron looked from her cowering in his bed to the six men surrounding his father. Two of them wore royal Vistan robes, marking them as an emperor and his heir. The other four wore the dark-gray uniform of imperial bodyguards.
    â€œI told you it was true!” the elder Vistan snarled at Adron’s father. His dark-brown eyes were filled with hatred as he tilted his head to look up at Adron’s father. At six foot six, and a former League assassin himself, his father wasn’t the kind of man you addressed in anything except the most reverent of tones.
    Not unless you wanted to die, anyway.
    And he saw the warning glint in his father’s eyes that denoted a wrath the Vistan emperor would do well to fear.
    â€œThe informant was correct when he said your son left with her.”
    Adron arched a brow at the contemptuous sneer on the man’s face. And it was then he realized the Vistan emperor had hair the same color and hue as the woman cowering in his bed. And as he scanned the younger Vistan heir, he saw further confirmation of who Livia really was.
    Shit.
    He’d slept with a Vistan princess.
    â€œYou whore!” Her brother threw the covers back and grabbed Livia by the wrist.
    Adron removed her brother’s hand from her and shoved him back. “She didn’t do anything wrong.” Oblivious to his nudity, he left the bed and put himself between Livia and her family. “You touch her and I’ll tear your heart out.”
    Rage descended on her brother’s face, but Adron saw the fear in the man’s eyes as he took in Adron’s height, build, and vicious scars.
    Her father, however, wasn’t so easily intimidated. “Take her,” he said to his guards.
    Livia hung her head as she wrapped the sheet around herself. The guards lifted her from the bed and took her to stand before her father.
    Adron ached at the frightened look on her face. And the sight of his bloodstained sheets kicked him