Juliette Cross

I let myself feel everything. Just this once, I wanted it all. I let him push our passion to the cliff, let my body synchronize to his in perfect harmony. Just this once, I let more than my body fall over the edge. With him.

When he was rough, my body soared. When he was gentle, he slayed me.

You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.

Funny thing about fear. When you cling to it, the fear grows exponentially, a monster morphing into a suffocating mass. But when you face it head-on, conquering the beast before it swallows you whole, you find there was nothing there to fear at all. The chains break, and the whole world feels lighter than ever before.

For many minutes, we did nothing but touch each other and absorb the sensation into our skin, as if love itself were a tangible blanket wrapping us in an unbreakable bond.

For a moment, she could do nothing but stare at the vaulted ceiling, sucking in deep breaths.She didn__ know. Stars above, she didn__ know it could feel like this. The attentions she__ given herself had never felt that good. In her dreams, it had never felt that good. But then, it wasn__ him in the flesh. Not like now.Nikolai removed his fingers, then placed a gentler openmouthed kiss on her sex, licking slowly with the flat of his tongue. Sienna whimpered and scooted up the bed, far too sensitive there now.He gazed up and grinned, licking his bottom lip before he sucked the two fingers he__ had inside of her with a long slide from his mouth. __ could taste you forever.___y heart would give out in a day,_ she panted, incredulous he would do and say something so naughty. __erhaps in an hour.__e chuckled and launched himself up and over her. __ like seeing that flush in your cheeks._ He nipped her lips. __nd hearing that smile in your voice.__he wondered how he could see anything, but then again, he was vampire. __ell, I like breathing._ She panted heavily still. __o give me a moment to catch my breath.__e settled beside her, pulled the covers over them, and wrapped a strong arm around her waist, pulling her over till her head rested on his chest. __ake all the time you need.__is voice was light and airy, unlike his usual brooding self.She tilted her head toward him. __ou__e happy with yourself, aren__ you?___uite._____e never experienced something like that before.__he had no experience with men, but she thought she knew enough from watching farm animals. Apparently not.__ am certainly glad to hear that,_ he said only slightly more serious. __f another man tried to do that to you, I__ have to rip out his tongue.___ou__e very territorial.___ery. Glad you__e noted.__trange how that act of intimacy had washed away the angst and tension from before. Then she realized that was exactly what he was trying to do. He__ wanted her pleasure alone, he__ said. He__ certainly gotten it.__s it always like that?_ she asked, almost too shy, but enjoying the intimacy that had grown between them in the dark.__o._ He flatted his palm, fingers spread, over her abdomen under the covers. __t will be better next time.___etter?__e laughed and lowered his head, sweeping his lips across hers. Not a kiss, but a reminder that they__ knocked down a wall between them and there was no rebuilding it.Then he whispered, __ait till you see what it feels like when I__ buried deep inside you.

I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together.

Never stray from your own kind, Jessen,_ my mother would say, __r you could end up like Princess Morga, a slave and outcast to be abhorred.__he problem was, I__ never been a very obedient daughter. Never the one to do exactly as I was told. And fairy tales have no meaning when the stars align and Fortune spins her wheel, weaving her own story for your heart.

Don__ settle, Genevieve. Don__ let strangers grope you on dance floors. Don__ allow college boys to fondle you in doorways. Don__ waver in uncertainty about your own desires....Know what you want. Endeavor to seize it, and keep it when you do.