Ensnared by the Dream Lord (Dark Lords) Read Free Page A

dropped to the merest whisper as doubt and fear warred in her breast, but she knew suddenly that it was exactly what she wanted.  “A kiss from your immortal lips?”
     
    As the words left her mouth, Morpheus’ gaze seized on her full lips.  The darkness was no cloak to his vision.  He’d toyed with her before, building her terror to destroy her hopes of conjuring him again, but this was different.  Again the desire came, wholly unnatural and unwelcome.
     
    That unfamiliar tightness grew in his loins.  His cock surged with blood, strained at the leather breeches which held it captive.  Now that the emboldened request hung in the air between them, Morpheus felt as powerless to resist her shy advance as he had been to resist her summons.
     
    He leaned close, listening to the quickening sounds of her breath, the rapid beat of her heart as he bore down on her.  Her eyelids closed, her dark lashes hiding the excitement in her eyes, but he knew it was there.  He had seen her desire as she gazed up at him.  She was tense, her muscles strained.  As he hovered just above her, she parted her mouth in invitation, and it was more than he could resist.
     
    Morpheus brushed his lips over hers.  The soft skin was alien to him, but pleasing.  He inhaled her sweet exhalation of breath, a gasp of surprise.  It was his undoing.
     
    Yielding to his own burning need, his mouth locked onto hers.  Without remorse, he unleashed the full brunt of his desire. Dimly, even as he did so, he was aware that her innocence would not have prepared her for such dangerous passion.  He knew that it would frighten her, but he relished the thought of turning her innocent request against her. 
     
    He ravished her mouth, plunging his tongue inside the moist, sweet crevice like a conqueror.  She moaned and arched her neck to meet his harsh possession and his purpose dimmed, banished from his mind by his own need and her eager response to his touch.  His grip on her arms relaxed until she was free and touching him.  She grasped his arms, tugging him closer, offering her breasts to him … anything he wished to possess.
     
    She caught the back of his head, her rigid grip almost painfully desperate.
     
    The roar of blood at his temples, in his ears enthralled him, threatened to wrench his control completely from his grasp. His heart beat wildly.  The need to be inside her—Now—pounded through his loins in a savage rhythm.
     
    Abruptly, he tore his mouth from hers, wrenching his head free of her hand.
     
    She cried out, reaching for him.  “Take me, my lord,” she begged.
     
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    Morpheus pulled himself from her dream.  His harsh breath made his lungs and throat ache—forgotten sensation from his long ago mortality.  How long had it been since he’d been tempted by pleasures of the flesh?
     
    Longer than his memory allowed.
     
    He dragged in a deep, sustaining breath, fighting to reassert his control.
     
    Adriana moaned in her sleep, drawing his gaze to her.  If she was pure, he thought irritably as he watched her writhing in desire, it was in body alone.  Her mind was that of a seductress.
     
    Things had not gone entirely as planned—in fact, not at all.  It had begun well enough.  He knew that she had been terrified in the beginning, but what little he’d done to frighten her was not likely to deter her from summoning him again. 
     
    Anger surfaced. 
     
    No trickery, she had claimed, and yet she had welcomed his fierce desire, matched it, nearly turned it against him.  And yet she had to be pure of heart or she could not have summoned him at all.  It was a puzzle that he found disturbing.
     
    He thought briefly of deflowering her while she slept, but the idea of taking her without her knowledge so repulsed him that he instantly regretted even thinking on it.
     
    That also puzzled and disturbed him. 
     
    He was forbidden to cross the boundary from the sleep world into the physical world and the