Crowned for the King's Secret by Kali Anthony

Author:Kali Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-09-06T14:30:52+00:00

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His skin was feverish under her palms. She looked into his eyes and saw the pain there because she’d seen it reflected in her own in the mirror too many times, and some days still did. He might have survived the ordeal, but did he truly thrive? Allowed to do things? As a child maybe, but as an adult, had anyone ever asked him what he wanted? She’d bet the answer was no.

Her heart broke for the little boy he’d been, the one who’d needed someone to love him the way a caring parent would. Not just teach him about duty and taking back the throne, as commendable as those things were, but allowing him to be a child who could grieve. No wonder he looked exhausted now. She knew how hard it was not to have somewhere soft to land in the place you called your home. She’d lived like that for most of her adult life, particularly in her marriage. A wash of tenderness flooded over her, the emotion filling all the cracks. This complex man was getting to her and she couldn’t help herself, so she didn’t try to.

‘I’m here,’ she murmured as she dropped her lips to his because he needed so much. ‘I’ll give you what you need.’

Their lips brushed and he didn’t move apart from the cool rush of his sharp inhale. She hadn’t known what to expect, but she had so much emotion to spare she could fill him with it. Try to bring back the tender man she’d witnessed that night back at the club. The man she knew he could be because he transformed around their son.

‘I’m sorry,’ he murmured against her lips.

Then he groaned, a guttural, pained sound, and thrust his hands into her hair, surging forward, standing and hauling her to him. He overtook her completely. Consuming her. She gave right back to him. Their mouths fused together, teeth clashing as if they were warring with one another. The glory of it. Heat roared over her. A tearing kind of passion that threatened to rip her apart. There was no gentleness here in this moment, and she knew without question that he needed it. That she did too.

She poured her pain and anger into the kiss as he tightened his arms round her, all of him hard and uncompromising, aroused, as she ground into his erection. He dropped one arm to her waist. Another held the back of her head as if he was afraid she’d try to escape, but there was no running from this. The storm of it. She craved to be whipped away into the turmoil of sensation flooding her. She thrust her own hands into his hair and raked her fingernails through it, a moment so heady it was as if she’d lost all common sense.

He pulled his lips from hers, both of them panting. Vic gave a tremulous laugh. ‘This is probably a mistake.’

The look he gave her could have cut her off at the knees.

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