He bent toward her, wrapped one arm around her waist, the other around
her back, buried his face in the crook of her neck, and inhaled. Exactly
what he wanted, exactly what he needed. Holding her close, giving in to
what he wanted, he forgot why he shouldn’t hold her, comfort her.
All he wanted then—a kiss, a real one. How would her lips feel against
his?
Marvelous.
And in concluding this, he realized he wanted her not only to be his, but
he wanted her in the way a man longed for a woman.
To want what he did and feel what he felt was absurd, ridiculous, and
confounding.
Carnal desires were for others, for all others except his breed, and yet
he felt it so deeply it seared him.
The desire that gripped him didn’t release him, even after she unhooked
her arms from around his neck and the warmth of her body melted
away.
There he stood, immobile, battling the desire she’d ignited. He didn’t want to leave yet knew he had to before he did something he’d regret.
He willed his body to move. Finally, he placed one foot behind the other, stepped back, turned, and strode away, praying the yearning he had no right to feel for a woman who’d never be his would fade.
J.L. Sheppard was born and raised in South Florida where she still lives with her sons.
As a child, her greatest aspiration was to become a writer. She read often, kept a journal, and wrote countless poems. She attended Florida International University and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelors in Communications. During her senior year, she interned at NBC Miami, WTVJ. Following the internship, she was hired and worked in the News Department for three years.
It wasn’t until 2011 that she set her heart and mind into writing her first completed novel, Demon King’s Desire, which was first published in January 2013.
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I love this series and I am looking forward to reading it again! Thanks for sharing it with me and have an awesome week!
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