The Fever and the Fury by Stephanie Draven

Author:Stephanie Draven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Cradled between her damp thighs, Luke threw his head back and roared as he erupted in orgasm. His whole body was in it, his legs tensing with each spasm. Even after the last burst of hot semen, his body kept pulsing with sweet release. A relief more intense, he’d never known.

Of course, he’d never made love to a woman like this before, a woman in complete surrender beneath him, offering up her body for his pleasure. He had no illusions. He’d taken this from her. He’d wanted her and he took her, convincing himself that it was exactly what she needed.

Now she was hiding her face beneath a curtain of dark hair. She was perfectly still, and when he brushed the wisps away from her face he saw that her eyes were squeezed shut as if frozen by some sudden storm. If he hadn’t felt her body clenching around his cock, he’d have thought she was a statue.

He let her finish clenching, then withdrew and rolled to the side. That’s when her eyes fluttered open with a dazed expression that filled him with regret. “Phaedra, are you all right?”

“No,” she said, blinking back tears.

She’d told him that she’d never been treated gently before in her whole life. And what had he done? He’d hurt her. Still echoing in his mind was her gasp of pain when he took her virginity. It’s just that the sounds she made after had convinced him that it didn’t matter. Clearly, it did. “Phaedra, I’m sorry.”

Phaedra’s tears now mingled with a bleak smile. “You’re sorry for this? There’s so much I want you to be sorry for, Luke, but not this.”

He didn’t understand furies. Perhaps he wasn’t meant to. “Then why are you upset?”

“Because what I just did with you is forbidden.”

“So what? Is Athena going to poof into the room and—“

“That’s not how it works, Luke. She isn’t all-knowing, all-seeing. None of the gods are. But she’ll find out.”

It’d been a long time since he felt like picking up a gun and doing battle, and he wasn’t sure bullets would be of any use against a goddess, but he had the strange feeling that he’d be ready to bloody anyone who tried to harm Phaedra. What the fuck was that about? “So, you’re upset because you’re scared.”

“No, Luke. You don’t understand. I’m a fury and we’re meant to be alone. But just now, I shared my body with you. I was joined to you. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t alone inside myself. And I’m upset because…you’re not still inside me.”

His tongue was too thick in his mouth to form a coherent response, but he held her face in his hands, studying it like a map, trying to understand the path before him. He’d started this for all the wrong reasons. Lust, petty vengeance, ego. Somehow, while it was happening, everything had changed.

She looked up at him with those dark eyes and clutched at him as if she were drowning. “I want you inside me again, Luke.

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