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Chapter 144 Married Bliss

Author: Judith GW
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Arlo

Moonlight pools into the room, painting Hilda’s skin in silver and shadow, and for a moment, I can do nothing but look at her.

She’s sprawled across the bed, dark hair fanned out over the crisp white sheets, her lips parted just slightly, her chest rising and falling in a rhythm that makes something tighten low in my gut.

Her eyes, warm and full of promise, track my every movement. We’ve been making love for hours, but I can’t seem to get enough of her.

My mate. My wife. Mine.

The thought sends a surge of heat through me, a primal satisfaction that I know is echoed in the way she shivers beneath my gaze. I take my drinking her in. Her bare shoulders, the dip of her waist, the slow, lazy way she stretches, displaying herself to my gaze.

“Arlo,” she murmurs, voice thick with longing, my name a whisper that wraps around me like silk. I slide over her, caging her in with my hands on either side of her. “Yes, love?”

She breathes out a soft laugh, but there’s no teasing in her eyes, on
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