Relief and longing rushed through him, and he fit his mouth to hers. Her lips immediately responded—soft, warm, and sweetly wet. A kiss, just a simple kiss, unlike anything he’d had since before: the slide of their mouths together, the playful slotting and tugging of lips and teeth. Brigan groaned, unable to resist deepening the contact, feeling the small, teasing slip of her tongue over his, the tight fist of her hand in his hair as she sent the other down between their bodies and over the steeling length of him. She gasped, sucking his breath from his mouth, and at the sight of her golden
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