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her hands all over his powerful biceps, along the scars on his massive chest, his washboard stomach and muscled thighs. And his cock…she wanted to touch him from balls to tip…and taste him.
    She’d gone from inexperienced virgin to wanton woman in ten seconds flat.
    “You are where you belong, kitten,” Karn murmured as he continued to stroke her bottom lip. “Soon enough you will be with your family. First you must be well versed in the ways of pleasuring your King.”
    “You’re not my King.” Annie frowned, which wasn’t easy to do when she was so turned on and he was touching her lip like that. “You’re not talking sense.”
    Karn put one arm behind her, like a guy making his moves by putting his arm on a seat back before closing in on his date. He moved closer so that his body was firmly against hers and Annie couldn’t think any more.
    Her brain had left the building.
    “I am your King, and you are my destined mate.” Slowly Karn eased his finger from her lips and down along the slender column of her neck to her collarbone that was just above water level because of the way she was slumped down. “And as such you will be trained to obey my commands and in all skills that give me pleasure.”
    Annie barely heard him as he spoke, and nothing he said really clicked in her brain or made sense. What happened to Annie Travis, the college professor who was a force to be reckoned with, who intimidated most men simply by her intelligence?
    Her smarts had taken a hike. At this moment, she felt about as bright as a turnip.
    Karn’s fingers skated lower, into the water, until he reached the swell of her breast. Annie couldn’t stop trembling. She didn’t know what to do, what to say, how to act. This was outside her realm, something she wasn’t equipped to deal with.
    “Where are my cousins?” she whispered, desperately trying to say anything that would detract from the sensation of him gently skimming his fingertips along the top of her breasts, from one to the other.
    “Alice and Alexi are safe and well.” Karn took one of her hands and firmly tugged at it, forcing it away from her breasts. “When your training is complete, I will take you to them.”
    It was like he had magic in his touch, the way he pulled first one hand away from her breast, then the other, and somehow she had no inclination to cover them again. Instead she reveled in the way he gazed at her and the flare of desire in his midnight eyes.
    “What?” The word slipped through her lips in a low and husky tone that reflected her own need. Her brain had gone from brilliant to bimbette and she couldn’t think beyond her desire for Karn.
    “Mmmmm.” The sound rolled from him like a deep and vibrant purr. He brought his hand to one of her breasts and held it, as though testing its weight. “Such beauty…waiting for my touch, and my touch alone.”
    As if I’ve been waiting all my life for you . The thought felt right to Annie, as if she had been waiting for him, forever.
    When he withdrew his hand she almost whimpered, but then he caught one of her hands and brought it toward him. Before she fully realized what he was doing, he settled her hand right on his erection.
    Annie’s eyes widened and her skin flushed with heat. Automatically she tried to snatch her hand back but he held firm.
    “Do not fight me. That is your first lesson. I will ask no more—or less—of you than you want to give.”
    She was so confused by what was happening that she couldn’t think of a suitable response.
    “Feel what you do to me, kitten.” He forced her fingers to close around his length, his gaze never leaving hers. “Feel how badly my cock wants to be inside you.”
    At his last comment, Annie’s cheeks blazed. She tore her gaze from his and looked into the water where she could clearly see his hand holding hers firmly around his erection. His cock was so big that the head actually protruded from the pool by a good five inches and at the tiny