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Her little cries were an aphrodisiac like no other, so he knelt again before she had a chance to protest and pulled her legs apart even farther

She was so exquisite that he was shaking like a lad experiencing his first woman

"I’m not sure," she cried "Oh Leo, you can’t--"

"Of course I can"

"It’s not proper," Eleanor cried desperately "I can’t think that it is I’ve never heard of such a thing" She looked around wildly, apparently reain that they were outside "And we’re--"

Her voice broke off because he had dipped his fingers into the chilly water and stroked them over the hottest part of her body Her ainst her leg and let his fingers dance

"I’

She ed to say "Leo," but it was a weak protest and he knew it He put his mouth on her, delicately, in the sweetest kiss of all It took only a moment Her hands twisted in his hair, her hips arched, and she broke in a cry, a quaking,he’d ever heard

He straightened slowly, knowing he was just barely in control "You look like a virgin sacrifice, waiting on the rock for a dragon to sweep by," he said, hearing the growling tone in his own voice

She opened her eyes "I’ hirateful for that," he whispered back "I just need to findhim to her "Oh God, Leo, please, please…I want you"

"Not as rowled He couldn’t even let his body touch hers If he allowed hie into her sweetness, take her right there under God’s sky and with no shaainst a rock in the sunshine She was naked She was about to make love with a man to whom she had no formal attachment She was…

All the considerations that should haveinto the woods seemed inconsequential, when she could instead watch Leopold’s beautiful haunch as he leaned over and pulled a French letter fro them toward the riverbank

"Do you carry those with you at all tihtened and turned around His body almost took her breath away: it was so powerful, muscled and beautiful…so very different froh she felt just that as she stood there in the sunshine, waiting But she didn’t move, afraid that she would break the spell if she ain so toup?" she asked shyly a fewto do just that His big hands cupped her bottom and he pulled her up a bit and then…

And then she opened her thighs and he was sliding in, and it was different--so different--than she remembered His hands were curled around her botto was focused somewhere else He was slow and she needed it She could feel every inch

It was enthralling--a bit painful--exquisite Her nails dug into his shoulders

"Too ht, Eleanor"

"Just go slow," she said in a gasp He took another inch and the pleasure of it streaked like fire down her legs She bit his lip

He growled at her and took another inch

Sheelse, but what she said was, "Don’t stop, don’t stop, please don’t stop"

"I’ to," he said, and nipped her ear Stole another inch Waited, let her feel him, adjust to the invasion, his thickness, his possession