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Pressure unravelled in her every muscle. Loosened her, until her legs fell, her fingers unclenched. And she was breathless. Panting. She felt—

‘Wonderful!’ She opened her eyes, and they found him high above her. Watching her, with his eyes on fire. ‘You are a gift!’ she said, a light, breathless chuckle leaving her lips.

‘Again?’ he rasped, and she heard the question. Recognised it.

‘Again,’ she said, and gave him the permission to take what he needed. What they both desired.

More.

She lifted her legs to his waist and wrapped them as best she could around him.

‘I want you,’ she husked her truth. ‘I need you inside me. Now.’

His eyes darkened.

He positioned the silken length of him at her core.

‘I want you again, and again, until you have nothing left to give,’ she told him. ‘And I will take it all from you.’

‘I will hurt you.’

‘I can take it,’ she said. ‘I want it. All of you. And I will give you the same. All of me,’ she promised, and waited. Watched him fight the fight he’d been battling since the gardens. Since the first time he’d let her kiss him and he’d kissed her in return.

But it was a fight he couldn’t win.

There was only surrender.

Their surrender.

To each other.

‘Aurora,’ he growled, and he pushed inside her to the hilt. She was so full. Complete.

And she surrendered to it. Surrendered everything she was, and all she would become, to him.

And she felt him do the same. Surrender all he was. All he would become.

To her.

Her tightness wrapped around Sebastian in a silken fist.

He understood it now.

This pain.

This pleasure.

It was his punishment.

And he would bear it. Endure it. For her.

He gripped her hips and thrust.

‘Sebastian!’She gasped his name, and he gritted his teeth. Watched her eyes widen. Watched the pleasure bleed into them. The pleasure he was giving her.

Endless pleasure.

It was a just punishment for his crime. For taking her into his arms, for using her, taking what he needed, and discarding her roughly with his seed inside her.