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She drew in a breath.

“And you arenotbarren, Alexis,” he told her. “With or without children. I will sow seeds of joy in your heart and gather the harvest with you forever. We will care for each other and for the people we choose to share our lives with.”

Tears sparkled like diamonds on her cheeks.

“Don’t cry, my angel,” he whispered, leaning in to scoop one up on his fingertip.

“I’m so happy,” she breathed, leaning into his touch.

Joy surged in his heart and all his resolve disappeared. He vaguely felt the room shifting around them, but he had eyes only for Alexis.

She tilted her chin up in invitation.

He bent over her, meaning to be gentle, to seal their promises with a solemn kiss.

Instead, he fed on her like a savage beast, his tongue claiming hers as he thumbed at her jaw, desperate for any part of him to be inside her.

Alexis moaned into his mouth, and he swallowed the sound, wishing he could swallow up all the sadness and self-doubt she had suffered before this moment, so that all that would be left was the wild joy of their love.

Then they were clawing at each other’s clothes in a race to bare their bodies as they had their hearts.

By the time his darling was naked before him, the room had been transformed into a cozy bedroom all around them.

Gauzy curtains fluttered in and out, allowing teasing views of the ocean, the cerulean water nearly as blue as Alexis’s eyes. A massive canopy bed stood in the center, covered in blue and white silks.

“Bed,” he said to her. “Now.”

She crawled in, driving him wild with the movements of her hips and thighs, and lay back on the pillows.

He tried to take in the sight of her, lithe and lovely, waiting for him. But his entire body felt like a lit fuse.

He pounced in after her like a hungry cat, pinning its prey to the ground.

“Tiago,” she murmured.

He swore he could hear the harmonics in her voice, the sound caressing him as sweetly as her hands.

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Alexis waited, sure it was only a moment, but it felt like an eternity, transfixed in Tiago’s gaze.

And then he was crawling to her, pinning her down by the hips and nudging her thighs apart almost brutally.

Pleasure ripped through her with every touch. It was as if every cell in her body were trying to light up at once.

Tiago fell on her sex, groaning as he fed on her so that the vibrations of his deep voice teased her further.

Alexis lost track of her sounds as the sensations tore at her. His mouth on her was sweet bliss, but she needed more.

As if he could hear her thoughts, he gave her one last flick of his tongue and then moved up, nipping at her hips and belly on his way to her breasts.

“Please, please, please,” she panted, not caring that she sounded desperate. Shewasdesperate. It had been good between them before, but this was something different, something… more.

He paused to lavish her breasts with kisses and nuzzle her neck before he was finally on her, caging her head between his big arms.

“If you let me inside you, I am yours forever,” he growled as if in warning. “And you are mine.”