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her, purely chemical she told herself as she spread her thighs and wantonly guided his hand back to her sex. Her symbion was practicing for conception, filling her body with sex hormones that would ensure the couple seized every opportunity for intercourse over the next several months.
    Once the mating cycle began in earnest, they would both be insatiable. This frenzy of sexual heat was only a taste of what they would go through until they conceived a child together—or until the cycle ended and proved them unfertile.
    By then, their bond would be unbreakable. Jaran would be her mate forever, the father of her children, assuming they were lucky enough to have more than one. The thought of spending the rest of her life with her nemesis might have cooled her ardor. It might have made her jump off the bed and fly screaming into the darkening sky, but Jaran's next move left her utterly unable to think of anything but achieving her own release.
    He lowered his upper body between her legs and spread her weeping sex wide with his thumbs. Without warning, he thrust his tongue deep inside her.
    Lara arched, moaning, and her hands flew to his head, tangling in his soft hair. A rumble of appreciation escaped his throat as he sucked her clit. The feel of his tongue against her intimate flesh sent her spiraling into a world of raw sensation.
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    She arched her back, raising her hips off the pallet in an effort to put more of herself into his mouth.
    "Jaran, please..."
    "Yes, anything you want, my mate. Anything."
    She bit her lower lip to stifle any more pleas. It was bad enough her body craved more of this sensual torment, but to tell him so, to plead for him to fuck her with his tongue, his finger, or his cock ... she couldn't allow him that satisfaction even when her own was only moments away.
    "Come for me," he demanded. "Like last night. I want to feel you go tight around me and I want to taste your climax."
    She wanted to resist. She wished her symbion would fall asleep or peel itself off her body and disappear so she could regain control of her emotions. "Just do it ... Jaran, take me."
    He pulled his lips away from her swollen sex and rose up on his knees. "As you wish."
    His shaft hung heavy between his legs, engorged and dark red, thickened by his own need for orgasm. With both hands, he guided himself to her. Lara closed her eyes. She would not pretend it was someone else, not after all the times she'd shamelessly fantasized about this very moment. But still she couldn't bear to watch as her illicit teenaged dreams became reality.
    Jaran entered her, his erection spreading her inner sheath and stretching it to the point that she had to draw in a breath and hold it. Seeming to hover over her in the dimness of the half-lit room, he made a sound she'd never heard before.
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    flesh before he lowered his hard body over hers and gathered her in his arms.
    Still reeling from the fullness and the pressure of his shaft within her, she pulled in a short breath and wrapped her arms under his, burrowing into the soft warmth between his back and his wings.
    His mouth worked next to her ear, but he said nothing coherent. Lara squeezed her eyes shut and for a moment allowed herself to float in a dark bliss. She'd longed for Jaran to accept her, to look at her without malice in his eyes, and right now, with him buried inside her and giving her the most exquisite pleasure of her life, she could pretend he'd always loved her.
    She sighed as the tension in her muscles eased. Her relaxation allowed him to thrust deeper and harder and suddenly his wings spread. His symbion was taking over now, claiming its prize, a willing female.
    With a low, feral moan, he began to move within her.
    Jaran willingly gave up control to his symbion. He'd achieved a moment of pure ecstasy when he'd claimed Lara's body with his.