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0132: Slick And Shaking, Again

Author: FlyingDove
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-09 00:56:39

AARON’S POV

I couldn’t stop touching her. My hands kept moving, almost on their own, as though if I let go for even a second she might vanish. We had just come apart together, first on the couch, then down on the floor, bodies slick and shaking, the bond flaring so bright it left spots behind my eyes. But it still wasn’t enough.

I needed more of her skin against mine, needed the steady thump of her heart under my palm, proof that this was real. That she was mine.

Angela was sprawled across my chest, warm and limp, her breath tickling the hollow of my throat in soft, uneven puffs. Every time she shifted, even just a little, those lazy circles her fingers drew over my ribs sent heat licking down my spine. My wolf was curled up in the back of my head, smug and drowsy, but the man in me... God, I was nowhere near done with her.

I brushed my lips over the damp hair at the top of her head. “Come here, love.”

She made this sleepy little sound, half protest, when I sat up, but it turned into
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