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the moment was anything but. “Tell me about your life, your family.” The sudden pain in her eyes was evident to him. He reached out to her.
    “They’re all gone now.” Aureliann explained in a calm voice what had happened. Maybe it should not still hurt as much as it did but it was not a feeling she could stop no matter how much she told herself to toughen up. “My cousin was the last one left and he couldn’t deal with the pain of my parents’ passing. He killed himself.” Even though it had happened two years ago, the pain was still raw.
    “Life is not fair sometimes.”
    “No.” But whining about it got you nowhere. She wanted to get back to the topic at hand. “Why are you here? Why me?” Aureliann was no more special than anyone else.
    “I told you why.” The answer was obvious to Valdemar.
    His total faith was amazing. “Yeah but it has to be more than just some strange woman calling your name.”
    Valdemar shrugged his shoulders. “Why? Can’t it be something as simple as love?”
    Could she love this man? Oh yes. “What if I’m not the one? What if you have it wrong? What if I wake up and—”
    “And I’m gone?” he added.
    “Yes.” The proverb about it being better to “have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” was a load of crap in Aureliann’s mind. It did not fit the real world.
    “That will never happen. I am not a man who makes decisions lightly, Aureliann. I am ruled by instinct and fact. The fact is we are meant to be together.” Valdemar took her hands and placed them on his chest. Her nightdress slithered to the floor. “I feel it in my heart.”
    His heart was beating at the same pace as hers. When Aureliann looked into his eyes she wanted to believe him and she rarely felt that way about anyone.
    “If you really feel that this is wrong for you then tell me to walk away and I will, Aureliann. I would never ask anything of you that you did not wish to give freely.”
    And that was the thing. She could not tell him that. Those words would be impossible to speak. “I can’t say that.”
    “Then let me love you as you should be loved. That’s all I ask.”
    There was only one possible answer to his request. “Yes.” She gathered up her courage and stood on her toes and pressed her lips to his. Kissing Valdemar was such a sensual treat, as he made her mouth feel like it was the most delicious thing he had ever tasted as he devoured, sucked and licked. “You have too many clothes on,” she mumbled breathlessly as they parted. If she was going to do this, Aureliann wanted it done properly.
    Valdemar did not need to be told twice. He undressed so quickly that he stumbled against her in his haste.
    Once naked, his cock jabbed at her stomach, bringing back memories of the first moment she held him within her. “Turn around. I want to see your royal ass, your highness.”
    Valdemar grinned and turned at her request. He jumped when Aureliann stroked the tattoo.
    “Very nice.” The dark blue ink etched the intricate ankh perfectly into his flesh. It was even better than she had imagined it would be. His butt muscles flexed under the caress of her hand.
    “It’s all for you, lovely.”
    “You say the nicest things.”
    He turned and moved toward her. “You make me want to be nice.” Before she could speak his arm curved around her waist and his mouth was on her nipple, sucking hard.
    Aureliann’s hands moved to his hair and tugged at the leather tie. She wanted to see the beautiful hair flowing free over his shoulders. On any other man it would not have looked sexy but on him it was so hot that she felt a rush of moisture between her legs. “Oh Val, you are gorgeous.” And he is mine.
    Valdemar’s head jerked up and his eyes met hers. “You called me Val.”
    “You don’t like it?” Aureliann was not big on nicknames herself but the name just seemed to come naturally to her. His response was to kiss her so hard that she staggered against him.
    “I