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Unfamiliar urges and needs pummeled his senses. He knew, deep down, that he shouldn’t be here doing this with her. But the call to mate with Katya was more than hecould resist. His body craved the connection with her.

She was willing.

He was more than ready.

Fuck it. Time to stop thinking.

He settled between her legs and she drew her knees up, planting  her feet onto the mattress and raising her buttocks, her creamy slit caressing his cock.

Her passion unraveled  him. His control slipped. Sliding past her swollen pussy lips, he plunged his cock deep.

She cried out and Conner stilled, realizing he’d just pushed past a barrier that he hadn’t expected to be there. Shit! Katya was a virgin!

Was
 
a virgin. But not any longer. He’d breached the barrier and buried himself inside her tight sheath. It pulsed around him, trembling, seething like a volcano about to erupt.

“You didn’t  tell me,” he said, kissing the tears that slid along her temple. He was afraid to move.

“Not necessary to tell,” she said, speaking  through gasps. “I wanted this. Virginity  is inconsequential. Quit talking and fuck me.”

Once again, she amazed him. And just  about killed  him as her pussy spasmed  around his  dick. He moved back and speared her again, this time more slowly, giving  her body a chance to adjust.

Slick fluids rushed from her and she wrapped her legs around him, drawing  upward, closer, taking his cock as if it had been created just for  her cunt. She was a  perfect fit for him. Tight, squeezing, drenched with cream. He moved again, mindful of  her pleasure as he stroked in and out, scraping that tight little ball inside her pussy.

“Oh, oh, God, Conner, more.” She grasped his shoulders, digging her nails into his flesh. He drove harder  now, assured that  he wouldn’t hurt her. Her panting cries and  whimpers signaled her pleasure and he  wanted her release more than his own.

Grinding his shaft deep inside  her, he let it  pulse, let that magical spot feel his flesh  against it, the hard ridges catapulting her  into a keening wail. Her eyes flew open and  she met his gaze. Primal lust filled the dark  orbs. The human in her receded, the wolf appearing, fierce and hungry. She sucked in her lower lip, her small, even teeth biting

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down until she drew blood. Her expression tight and determined, she lifted her  buttocks, demanding her release.

Her fierce reaction to his strokes had him  struggling to keep the  wolf at bay. Her eyes glittered and he knew she struggled, too. He wanted to stay human, to ride out  this maelstrom of emotion and sensation without losing control.  As it was, Katya had already shredded most of the  human restraint he had.  Her whimpering demands, her urgent pleas for release were his undoing.  His balls drew up tight, pulsing with the need to jettison his cum inside her, to mark her in the primal way.

It was time to make her his.

Katya had no idea it would be like this.  Fierce, uncontrollable, this desperate urge to relieve the tension coiling tight and hot inside her. Her pussy quaked around  Conner’s thick shaft, his ridged cock scraping along her sensitive g-spot. Her body spilled copious fluids as she creamed  and spasmed over and over again.

And yet these sensations were just a prelude to what was coming. She knew it, he knew it, and it was driving her mad. Release hovered close and no matter how much she tensed and willed it to happen, it teased  her, toyed  with her, forcing a passion thatshe wasn’t prepared for.

Through the haze of awareness she recognized Conner as the only man to drive these feelings through her body. She knew she’d question that later, as she’d  questionthe choices she made. But right now, the brandy had  done its job, giving her tunnelvision. The only thing that mattered was Conner. His  skin brushing against hers, his cock powering in and out of her pussy, his  mouth covering hers and tasting the blood she’d spilled when she  bit her lip.

He tore his lips from her mouth and grazed  her neck, reaching underneath to gather her buttocks in his hands, tilting her pelvis  upward so he could drive in deeper. She screamed, finally riding the roller coaster of  her release. When he bit down on the flesh of her shoulder, her climax hit like a rushing wave, drowning her in sensation she feltdeep in her womb.

Conner growled against her, his  canines emerging and slicing into her skin. A cry tore from her lips as the sensation served to catapult her into a second orgasm, this timetaking him along. He reared back and drove  hard, spilling hot jets of fluid inside her.

Even after they’d come he continued to  move inside her. Slowly, taking  her mouth in a kiss that drove all reason from her  mind. His hands moved over her skin, light caresses that lulled her, relaxed her.

Conner rolled off and drew her against his chest, wrapping the blanket over themboth.

The last thing she remembered  was his lips  against her  hair as he pressed a tender kiss to her temple. Then she finally gave  up, the night, the brandy and the haze ofpleasure winning out over her desire to remain awake. She sank into blissful oblivion.

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Conner felt Katya finally relaxing against him. When he heard her deep, even breathing, he knew she’d fallen asleep. Too bad he couldn’t follow her so easily.  Thoughts ran rampant through his mind.  Thoughts that demanded examination.

Like what he was going to do  now that  he’d mated with her.  Because despite wanting to think this had just  been sex, he knew it had gone  much deeper than that. Theprotective, possessive, wolf part of him demanded that no other man touch her. Ever.

And he sure as hell wasn’t ready for that.  Not yet, not with her  and most definitely not here. This wasn’t in the grand plan for him. He was supposed to mate eventually.  He’d be assigned to an area by his parents and have  to search out a pack and matethere.

They sure as hell hadn’t told him it would be Romania. So his gut reaction about  Katya had  to be wrong. It was probably  due to what happened  to her tonight with  Peter. Since he’d witnessed it and stopped it, he  just felt protective  toward her. That and the fact she’d just gifted him with her virginity had to be the reason he was so emotional. Because God knew he wasn’t  typically emotional about fucking.

He wasn’t her mate, he was sure of it.

Satisfied that he’d worked out the scenario with logic, he allowed his body to relax. Wrapping his arms tighter around Katya, he inhaled the sweet scent of her skin and closed his eyes, drifting into the darkness.

* * * * *

Katya drifted slowly into consciousness, blinking her eyes and frowning at her dry mouth. She needed water. And a shower, because she was sticky all over.

What the hell had she done last night? She focused on  the predawn light sifting in through the French doors, then stilled as realized that she lay next to a strong, warmbody.

Heat suffused her skin as she realized who that body belonged to. She shut her eyes, willing what had  happened to be nothing but a dream.

But she knew it was real, realized what she had done.

Oh, God, now what?

Conner jerked to a sitting position as a frantic knock and a loud female voicesounded at the front door. He jumped out  of bed and quickly shot a look in her direction as  if in warning to stay  put.  Katya heard Elena’s voice after Conner openedthe door. She followed Conner into the  bedroom, a worried look on her face.

“I couldn’t find anyone else. Where’s Peter? I can’t find Katya. Conner, have you—”

Katya sat up in bed just as Elena turned  toward her. Her face went pale as she  looked over  at Conner’s naked body and then back to Katya.

“What have  you done, cousin?” Elena asked in Romanian.

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“Speak English, Elena. It is rude to leave him out of the conversation.”

“Are you certain he’s going to want to hear what is said?”

Katya glanced at Conner, unable to resist  the feminine sigh as  she stared at his naked body. Unashamed, he put his hands on his hips and regarded them  both with a frown.

“Peter attacked me last night,” Katya explained. “Badly.”

Elena’s eyes widened and she flew to the bed, grasping Katya’s hands. “Are you  injured?”

“He beat me, tried to rape me, but Conner stepped in before he managed it.”

Elena squeezed Katya’s hand, then glanced over at Conner, her gaze centered on his crotch. Katya followed Elena’s eyes, seeing  the dried bloodstained evidence of her former virginity all over Conner’s cock.

“You had sex with him,” Elena whispered.

“Yes.”

“Does he know what this means?”

“Could somebody please tell me what the  hell you two are talking about?” he

asked.

“Elena, leave us alone, please.”

“But I don’t think—”

“I’ll be fine. I need to talk to Conner alone.”

Elena cast a dubious look at Conner, then  shrugged. “Scream if you need me. I’llhear you.”

After Elena turned and walked out, Conner turned to Katya, one brow arched in a way that had her thinking about wicked hot sex, not telling him the truth.

“Well?”

She swallowed, desperate for a glass of water. Her head felt like a knife had been inserted into her temple and was stuck there. Her mouth was a desert and her pussy was sore. A rather pleasant soreness, though. Despite the ramifications, she didn’t regret what happened last night.

But Conner  would hate  her when he found out.

“I need you to know that I would  never have done this under normal  circumstances.” She hoped he believed her. Entrapment wasn’t in her nature. It had to  be the trauma, the brandy that had fogged  her senses, obliterating her normal common sense. She hadn’t waited all these years for  the right man just to fall into bed with the wrong one. There was a reason she’d given her virginity so easily to Conner.  Unfortunately, even she didn’t know what that reason  was. How was she supposed to  explain it to  him?

“Done what?”

“I’ve remained a virgin all these years for a specific reason.”

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“And that reason is?”

Taking a deep breath,  she said, “I’m the princess of Braslieu, the sole surviving heirto the land  and holdings of the Braslieu family and the only remaining royal in thedynasty.”

His eyes widened. “You’re the princess.”

“Yes.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I don’t tell anyone. No one outside those who live in Braslieu knows the  identity of the royal family. It’s a secret.”

He frowned, furrows appearing on his  forehead. “Okay, I don’t get it. What does that have to do with your virginity?”

This was where it was going to get ugly.  She already knew it, but there was no way  to prepare him for it. “I remained a virgin  because according to  custom, the man who  takes my virginity is my mate and will rule Braslieu beside me.”

For a moment, he didn’t move, his facial  expression revealing nothing.  Then, a slight tic jumped at his temple, his eyes narrowed and he said, “Wanna run that by me  again?”

She looked down at her lap, clasping her  hands together, feeling horrible because of  what she’d done. When she looked at him  again, she  felt his anger, his confusion, his  doubt.

“Last night you mated with the Princess of  Braslieu, Conner. We are bound for all

eternity now.”

The blood drained from Conner’s body, leaving a cold, empty chill in its stead.

Mated. Bound. Eternity. He didn’t want  to hear those words, didn’t care for theimplication that something occurred that  was outside his control, outside his knowledge.

“How could you do that?” he asked, unable to believe  that the warm, passionatewoman last night could be so deceptive.

“I didn’t. Not purposely, anyway. It had  to be the brandy, the shock, everything combined together to make me forget  that I wasn’t supposed to have sex.”

He choked out a laugh, reaching  for his jeans and sliding them on. He yanked thezipper up and glared at her. “Give me a break, Katya. You didn’t remember you were a virgin? You conveniently  forgot that having  sex meant binding you to the man forever?  Do I look that stupid?”

“You don’t look stupid at all. I’m sorry,  Conner. I didn’t mean  for this to happen. You have to believe me.”

Right now  he didn’t know what  to believe. Could he  have been that far off base about Katya? Granted, she had been traumatized last night. No  one would set up a

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scene like the one he’d come upon. No way.  It was obvious she wasn’t willing to give  up her virginity to Peter.

But how could she so easily give it up to him? Peter was her lifelong friend, a  Romanian. Whereas Conner was a stranger. And she’d fought Peter until she’d ended  up bloodied and bruised because she didn’t want to give  him her virginity.

Unless… No. No fucking way. No woman was that devious.