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They ordered a fancy meal, but Royce noted that neither of them seemed to have utsy Catherine was nervous, too Royce found that endearing, and he was charet things rolling, Royce decided when he set the food tray outside their door, was the front seat of a car The thought produced a wide grin, one he suspected would have ," Catherine said when he returned "What's so a around this I want to er" He held his ar tidily into his eether perfectly Royce believed they had been created for each other For a cure for all the lonely, barren years he'd spent alone Years she'd spent alone
He kissed her once gently and felt her breath, hot and fiery, against his throat One kiss and Royce was suddenly as weak as a newborn kitten It didn't help ainst hi as he reached for the zipper at the back of her dress Catherine straightened and raised her ararht off, and she rewarded hi her lips over the cordedover the hollow of his throat
Royce closed his eyes to the deluge of feelings His heart started to pound, but that wasn't his only reaction His whole body had started throbbing He couldn't reh Once his shirt was free of his waistband, Catherine took over for hi the buttons one by one She sighed softly and fanned her hands across his chest, her nails innocently tugging against the hairs of his chest like a kitten yearning for attention
"Oh, Royce Kiss ht his breath and then did as she asked, spreading hot kisses across her delicate shoulders, then up the side of her exquisite neck until their mouths met in a burst of spontaneous combustion that was so fierce it threatened to consuroaned, the sound rough and masculine to his own ears Catherine moaned, too, and it was the most sensual, erotic whimper Royce had ever heard He had to touch her, had to feel for himself her excitement, had to taste it and know she wanted hied her back, and he was gratified to realize she'd re what little strength he possessed, and looped her arms around his neck Royce's hands cupped her breasts They were soft and full, so mar-velously lush and round The nipples instantly pearled, and the feel of theainst his palainst him sent a wave of ed the distance to the bed Lifting her into his ar his conquest into the middle of camp
He pressed Catherine onto thesure he didn't suffocate her with his weight
He kissed her again and again, so ainst hi with hiht
Royce couldn't wait another ht the sides of her lace panties and dragged thelide open the zipper of his slacks and ease them over his own hips
Once they were both free of restrictive clothing, he knelt over her Her eyes were golden, hot with need Royce nearly groaned just looking at her, just feeling the heat radiating from her sertips grazing his cheekbone "Love me," she whispered "Just love me"
Her words, her touch were all the induce his thighs to part hers She opened to him without reserve, without restraint
By all that was holy, Royce didn't knohere he found the strength to go slowly, to linger, prolonging thethe throbbing, aching staff of histo die from pleasure, it would have been at thatfor him, so sweet and hot and moist, Royce knew in a heartbeat that he dare not move
His eyes returned to hers, which were half-closed as she, too, drank in the exquisite tu her ahi hard, Catherine raised her knees and bucked beneath hiroaned aloud as a flash of white-hot pleasure shot through him Unable to endure much more, he pushed forward and was nearly consumed with the second wave of moist, hot bliss When his eyes connected with Catherine, he noted that she was biting hard into her lower lip
"I' you?" He didn't know if her reaction was one of pleasure or pain
"Nooh, no," she whispered "I never knew anything could feel this good"
"This is only the beginning," he promised He closed his eyes in order to savor every sensation, drink in every fiery aspect of their loveo slow He had to, he felt, in order to fully appreciate the ic between them But once he started to rotate his hips, he was lost Lost in pleasure Lost in the stor each bold thrust with one of her own
It was a storm One of need One of fury and frenzy It came on quickly, with such intensity that Royce was pitched fro down, no going back No stopping Not for heaven, not for hell For pain or for pleasure
His cli completion, far too quickly to suit Royce He didn't want it to end, not now Not so soon
Catherine's labored breathingthat shattered the silence as they both burned in the wake of the sweetest tempest Royce had ever known
Royce woke around three to the sounds of Catherine singing She was taking a shower In the , he rolled onto his back and raised his arms, cupped his head beneath his hands They'd made love twice and then fallen into an exhausted sleep The last thing Royce re the fact she had yet to put on the special lace nightie she'd bought for their wedding night
She ca a towel over her wet hair When she raised her head, she noted that Royce was lying in bed, watching her So for many more years yet to come
"I didn't wake you, did I?"