One breathtaking moment we were making out heavily on the balcony, and the next we were completely bare and tangled in the satin sheets of my king-sized bed. Javaid's lean, muscular body fit against mine like a puzzle piece and I wasn't about to tear us apart. Instead, I locked my lips with him in the fire of my passion as he gave himself to me for the first time in over a hundred years.

He clung to me like a second skin as he moved against me, making us as one. His tongue teased the rims of my lips before slipping inside and swirling heatedly around mine. His muffled moans mixed with mine as we both gave in to the raging desire flowing with a fiery heat through our veins.

My fingernails pressed into his skin with the fervor of ecstasy gripping my whole being. A flood of warmth spread inside my core at his shuddering cry and I felt a wave of intense please wash over me and I gasped his name. Once more I had allowed my walls to crumble for him although I knew better. As he kissed along my heaving chest, I hoped I could pull myself together enough to initiate my plan. "Javaid. . . ."

"Yes my queen?" He murmured in question as his lips traveled across my breasts and earned him a soft groan.

I rested my head back against the plushness of the covers, closing my eyes for a moment while my breathing remained quick and uneven and my heart raced. I was overly aware of each touch of his mouth or the way his large hands slowly slid along my skin, but I couldn't let that distract me. "We can't do this."

He carefully planted kisses up my chest, along the curve of my neck, and across my cheek to my lightly parted lips. He left a soft smooch before staring down into my eyes he had once called twin silver moons. His face glowed with the gentleness of the smile playing across his lips and in my eyes there was no creature more magnificent than him. "Why not? There is nothing that can stop us and our love."

Tears stung my eyes but I willed them away. He just voiced the same thing I told him the day our paths first crossed, but it was a lie. I had known better, yet chose to be with him. Now look where it got us. "But there is."

I hated it when he frowned, but yet he was in this moment. His lips stretched into a thin line and his ocean eyes swam with bewilderment. "I don't understand."

The one tear which escaped burned down my cheek like a drop of acid. This should've been easier to handle, but it wasn't. If anything, it was worse. I lifted my chin in an attempt to steel my softening heart. "I broke the rules for you, and now we must suffer. . . forever."