Lilian’s POV “I’m going to make you scream so loud the High Elders hear it.” Alexander’s threat hung in the heavy, charged air of the suite, a filthy promise that rendered the seventy-beat rhythm of my artificial pulse completely obsolete. I dug my nails into the hard, thick muscles of his shoulders, bracing my back against the antique mirror above the marble vanity. I was entirely open to him, my ankles locked securely behind his back, my body slick and aching for the brutal collision I knew was coming. But the collision didn’t come. Instead of driving forward, Alexander hitched his hips back just a fraction. He kept the broad, scorching hot head of his c*ck pressed firmly against my slick entrance, but he utterly refused to push inside. He simply held himself there, letting his blis

