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Scarlett’s POV
Fuck. What was wrong with me? Scarlett, stop this. Stop this right now, I screamed at myself in the silence of my own mind. I was playing a dangerous game, dancing on the edge of a blade that could slice my entire life open. But Goddess help me, I couldn’t stop. The moment I felt him—the moment that heavy, thick heat of his hardened cock pressed against my core—every bit of logic evaporated.
I didn’t stop. I couldn’t. I continued to roll my waist in slow, agonizing circles over him, grinding my weight down until I felt the friction sparking like live wires between my thighs. Leonard let out a guttural groan, his large hands shifting from my waist to my ass, gripping me with a possessive strength that made my breath hitch. I looked down at him, and for a second, the mask of the cold Alpha slipped. I saw the brutal war raging in his eyes. There was a raw, starving desire to take me right there, to bury his grief in the body of a stranger, but it was fighting a losing battle against the suffocating wall of love and guilt he carried for a woman he thought was dead.
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