  Harper arched beneath Nadyr. 
  &quot;Oh, there,&quot; she pleaded, trying to pull his hips closer to her with her heels, feeling the muscles of his buttocks bunch as he delivered. He tasted his way along her jaw until their lips met, breathless kisses stolen between his thrusts. 
  &quot;Harper,&quot; he groaned her name in warning that he was close, waiting for her. 
  &quot;So close, just… Ah,&quot; she cried out as she came, and his moan was filthy as she milked his second orgasm from him. As the last throbs faded and he relaxed against her, she sighed out in satisfaction. &quot;Oh, so good,&quot; she stroked her hands up his back in appreciation.
  Since reaching an accord, she thought as she ran her hands over his body and through his hair, the sex between them had been phenomenal, something that she looked forward to, and that caused a warm throb at random times of the day when 

  Mira's scent was fading from the covers, Daevishk thought, and only clung in ghosts to the clothes in the storage unit. Soon, it would be lost to all but his memory of her. 
  But his memory was impeccable. The expression in her eyes in that last glance back at him before she had stepped into nothingness, haunted him. He had done that to her, he told himself, in his greed, in his desire, he had done that, he had made it so that a plunge twenty-three storeys to the ground was preferable to returning to his arms. 
  The turning point had been bringing Vonyx into the den. Before that, it had been perfect. Mira had adored him, she had called him handsome in his uniform, he remembered, his heart twisting, and he had cautioned her about the danger of Rikash.
  The danger before Mira had not been Rikash, Daevishk admitted to himself, it had been him. 
  She had been like broken doll on the pa

  Daevishk was glad of the excuse to leave the apartment. It had been unbearable, he thought as the elevator descended, to hold Mira down for Nadyr, and he had never anticipated that he would ever allow it to occur again. But he had never expected to see Vonyx again, and now that he had the other male back, he was not prepared to surrender him, and so, as Vonyx took Mira into the den and she began to scream, Daevishk had simply walked out. 
  He let himself into his father s domicile. The door to the main den was closed, indicating that Krithdeker was still within. He made himself a pot of tea and sat on the couch to go through the reports Thradil sent him every morning. 
  &quot;Good morning, Daevishk,&quot; Krithdeker left the den door open behind him when he left and Daevishk could see his submissives moving around the room, straightening the mating platform covers and opening the cur

Harper arched beneath Nadyr. 
  &quot;Oh, there,&quot; she pleaded, trying to pull his hips closer to her with her heels, feeling the muscles of his buttocks bunch as he delivered. He tasted his way along her jaw until their lips met, breathless kisses stolen between his thrusts. 
  &quot;Harper,&quot; he groaned her name in warning that he was close, waiting for her. 
  &quot;So close, just… Ah,&quot; she cried out as she came, and his moan was filthy as she milked his second orgasm from him. As the last throbs faded and he relaxed against her, she sighed out in satisfaction. &quot;Oh, so good,&quot; she stroked her hands up his back in appreciation.
  Since reaching an accord, she thought as she ran her hands over his body and through his hair, the sex between them had been phenomenal, something that she looked forward to, and that caused a warm throb at random times of the day when he wasn t with her but had crossed her mind. 
  Being Nadyr s fake-mate wasn t a bad position to 

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