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This couldn’t be happening. She couldn’t be leaving him. She couldn’t.

“Mairi!”

“Mairi!”

But she was fading from his sight now, leaving him for good.

Chapter 2

“DAMEN, WAKE UP.Wake up.”

The sweetness of the voice saved him, waking him from his nightmare.

Damen shot up to a sitting position, breathing hard and feeling like he had just survived a war. Cold sweat enveloped his body, and his thoughts were disoriented, unable to comprehend how he could be in the haven of his bedroom—-

A small hand cupped his face, turning him until he found himself facing...

Mairi.

Worry clouded her lovely face as she gazed at him searchingly. She was seated on her haunches, one hand clutching the covers to her naked body.

“Are you okay?” she whispered, her words breaking the stillness in their vast bedroom. “You were having a nightma—-oomph.”

Her words were lost in his kiss.

He had to kiss her.

He had to have her.

Now.

It was the only way to make the fear subside, to make him really believe this was reality – and that Mairi was back in his life for good.

Digging his fingers through the thick, smooth tresses of her hair, Damen clasped her head so he could kiss her deeply, his tongue pushing in so forcefully it made his wife gasp and clutch his shoulders. The covers slipped from her grasp, and as her body melted against him, it was his turn to breathe harshly against her lips. The feel of their naked bodies sliding against each other made the blood rush to his head.

He had to have her.

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