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along her spine and straight to her pussy. Finn must have felt it
too—his cock grew hard against her thigh.
    He pulled her in line with the zipper on his jeans. She
gasped as she felt the large bulge from behind the worn denim. Her body
remembered the feel of his shaft deep inside her. Grinding and pumping in and
out of her body.
    “This necklace, your necklace . According to the
curse, when we join as mates, this gem is one of three that has the power to
restore Heather back to health. When this necklace is brought together with the
other two stones, we have the chance to break the family curse and Heather
won’t have to die. This jewel wrapped around your lovely neck proves you’re
mine and we belong together.”
    She pushed Finn hard away from her. She couldn’t think with
his body pressed against hers. Shoving her hair aside, she turned her back on
him once again. What the hell was she doing, listening to anything he had to
say? This was the man who’d torn out her heart and left her bleeding so long
ago.
    Her first experience with making love had turned sour,
dashing the hopes of a young girl in love. Now Finn was here professing they
belonged together. Did she look that desperate, that lonely? Alli was more
livid than she’d been in a long time.
    She wasn’t sure whom she was more pissed at, Finn or
herself. The truth was, she still wanted him. She longed to feel him touch her,
not as the boy he once was but as the man he’d become. With that sexy,
arrogant, hot body he now possessed.
    Alli knew he would do things to her, make her feel things
she didn’t want to feel again, and it scared the hell out of her. God, she was
pathetic. She didn’t need anyone to tell her she was crazy for still wanting
this man.
    Turning back around to face him, she reached up and undid
the clasp. “Take this, Finn. You can have the necklace, just take it and go.”
    Giving him the precious gift from her grandmother was worth
not getting her heart broken again. She was terrified of getting hurt.
    “I can’t,” he said, shaking his head, wrapping her hand back
around the jewel. “It doesn’t work that way. I know you don’t understand but
there are conditions to breaking this curse, and rule number one is that I
can’t take it until after we have mated. Not in the way of non-magical people
but in the way of my people, in a traditional witch ceremony. We have to unite
in the eyes of the Goddess. Only then can you present me with the necklace.”
    She shook her head in denial. Her mind screamed to kick his
butt to the curb but her heart was crying yes.
    It was funny how Fate loved to pull a fast one on a girl.
She wasn’t normally an indecisive woman. She considered herself to be
practical. Practical and safe flew out the window when Finn walked through her
door. Mated …what did that really even mean? Would they be married or
were they destined to be lovers until she gave up the necklace? Then what?
Would he walk away again, leaving her devastated a second time?
    She curled her fingers to keep from touching him. The sorrow
in his eyes cut like a knife. Alli wasn’t able to tell him to go to hell, the
words wouldn’t form. She wanted to delude herself into thinking she was going to
do this because she felt sorry for him. Unfortunately, she was always honest
with herself. Call her weak and stupid but she was in big trouble.
     
    Finn watched the indecision flicker across her face. Taking
advantage, he leaned into her and touched her lips with the barest caress. He
came back once, twice, lingering longer with each pass. Her mouth opened up
with the lightest pressure of his tongue.
    He wrapped his arm around her, pulling her into his embrace.
Tightening his hold, he increased the depth of his kiss. Light sweeps of his
tongue became more urgent as she fell into a rhythm with his lips.
    Angling his head to the side, he opened her mouth wider for
his invasion. She tasted like fine red wine and his mouth hummed with the need
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