She felt him tense under her fingers, and she ran her tongue across his lips, but he wouldn’t let her in. “Please, Sorin,” she whispered onto his lips. He groaned as he pulled back to look into her eyes. “Scarlett, this… I will not have the self-control not to touch you if I sleep beside you.” “You don’t want to?” she rasped out. “Gods, Love, that is all I want to do, but not… I would be a bastard to take advantage of this, when you are so vulnerable.” She could hear the longing in his voice as he held her stare. Scarlett pushed herself up into a sitting position. “I want you to touch me,
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