The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

---- My lips mirrored the smile that formed on his. He lowered his head and kissed me-tender, slow, sensual-until it sparked into fire and heat. The threads of fate wove tighter between us. | could feel his emotions, his love, his devotion, through the temporary bond he'd placed on my neck. It was unreal... and | couldn't wait to mark him in my vampire way and drink from his neck. We stayed wrapped in each other for a long time, in a silence that said more than a thousand words.

My thoughts twisted, trying to figure out how I'd confess that | wasn't from his world, and | was still looking for a way to return home. But knowing him, he wouldn't take that well. Ino longer planned to escape him If Left, | wanted him to come with me. How could | ask him to abandon his entire territory, his people? It wouldn't be fair. ---- "What's bothering you? You've got something spinning in that mind of yours," | tensed hearing him speak.

But | quickly played it off "lL was thinking about Alan," | muttered, twisting my mouth at the sound of that cute little name for what was surely a fierce and wild Alpha. "How can you get him back?" "I don't know, I'll find a way. But don't worry about it." He kissed my hair. Iwas laying on top of his warm, naked, still-damp body. "Right now all | care about is you-us. | won't give you up, and | don't care about the consequences.

| want you, | crave you..." He held me like | might vanish at any second. "From the first moment | smelled your scent, | couldn't stop dreaming of you, searching for you." His sweet words filled my ears. "Like an idiot, | watched you during your silly little thefts, heard your name, kept your smiles... even the ones you gave that dumbass vampire." ---- | shivered realizing Id been stalked by this wolf all that time. There | was thinking | was such a pro thief, and he was just letting me play.

"That vampire and | were never a thing. He just helped me when | first got to this territory," | said plainly. Now | understood why Marius was always the target of those" random" attacks from the guards. "Victoria," he suddenly said my name in an overly serious tone. "Tell me the truth. Whatever it is, | can take it," he said, lifting my face to meet his burning gaze. "Are you really the slave of some Zarek, and you just happened to end up in this realm by accident?"