Page 13 (1/2)

He pulled her toward him and kissed her and the taste of herself on his hs jolted her into another orgasue thrust past her teeth, de, his hands were hard on the back of her neck, forcing her to hi her to him and she wanted more, needed more, but finally it was too much, too intense and she broke the kiss and buried her face in his throat He cradled her head gently and then stiffened and she could feel his muscles lock as he at last found release

They stayed pressed together for some minutes, too sated to venture conversation, but Kara started a silent countdown and couldn’t help but smile when the inevitable wisecrack cauard, it’s coa complaint with the union"

"I knew you’d find a way to spoil this," she said, but she didn’tspecial, not at all, ly explored soain "Aet off?"

"Yes and don’t you dareabout it, I never thought it’d be so fabulous"

She giggled into his neck "You’ve been fantasizing? About me?"

"No, about Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies…of course about you Christ, don’t you know? You’re all I can think about Drea in the shower thisto his words "And as far as the sex being good, conceit, thy nahed "And it’s obnoxious to i your own performance"

"That’s not it at all," he said, serious for once She pulled back frorin, no teasing glint in his eyes "It was you You’re ah," he added with a wry smile, "you certainly did your best to hide the fact that you were affected by , tu another laugh

"--I mean, would it have killed you to scream that I was your love monkey? Maybe claw , just kept sh Her control see, he should be grateful for it

"Next time, maybe," he said, then leered when she raised her eyebrows at him "Aw, you know you can’t resist ht hours to recover…"

She poked hiain, oddly reluctant to separate fro had beenThey were still ludicrously different, he would still bug out on her the ht, I could alhed, stroking her back, "you really do have to marry me"

She froze He felt it at once, but didn’t co his hands up and down her back, trying to cal to knohat he was thinking

Stupid, she told herself You knohat he’s thinking Unlike you, he doesn’t hide how he feels He really thinks he loves you, the poor bastard

O God, she thought in despair, we are in so rin on his face, a grin that absolutely would not fade He didn’t want Kara thinking he had some sort of "me Tarzan, you Jane, me Jane’s hot love monkey" mentality about what they had shared, so he tried to quit shts: Fah to keep a newborn alive, I should really get her to eat more…), war (Kara would kick sohanistan, take care of a few proble a 48 hour shift with no intern to help (I wonder if Kara would co out for a while?), but she pervaded every rotten thought,every one of the beside hiet off the floor, get dressed, lock hi and leave for the rest of the night To go where, he had no idea…he didn’t even know if she lived in the city She was obviously rattled by his latest declaration of love and in true Kara fashion wanted to run away fro under control Jared wanted hed and acquiesced and they had crawled into bed together Kara had dropped off at once--after insisting she be the one to sleep nearest the door, still selflessly looking out for hi a little ht, taken out three strongby a pross house and then hotly defended her way of life, all in the space of six hours All he’d done, as usual where she was concerned, atch and , of course