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"Judd, please"

He flicked his finger across the tightly furled bud She cried out and asked for ive it to her Instead he retreated to draw a slow circle low on her navel

"I’ to kill you"

He chuckled and it was a sound he’d never before heard come from his own throat "Patience is a virtue"

She see his prior journey, his goal her neglected breast She went quiet

Anticipation lingered in the air and he was so sensitive to its touch he could aled And when he touched her breast, the rhythm of her heart turned into a staccato drumbeat This time, he didn’t flick her nipple but closed his hand over the firm, hot rise of her flesh "Your breasts make me want to bite"

She arched into his hold, her hand squeezing his arm "Do it" A dare An invitation

"Not yet" That would accelerate so he was determined to draw out forever "I want to savor "

He bit her neck in response,her tre her any warning, he slipped his hand down and under the waistband of her panties again Spearing through her curls, he pressed his thuers to tease the daave a startled cry and then her body went taut Liquid heat covered his fingers, scenting the air with a sharp wildness He continued to stroke her as she shuddered several times before her body went soft and sated Even then he didn’t stop, indulging his need to pet her with long, easy movements as she lay quiescent

When she finally atteh and let her, but kept his fingers where they were She nuzzled at his throat, ran her fingers over his chest It was no longer an odd feeling for hied the tone of the caresses, gave theht He liked the result

"Where did you learn all this?" she in"

He al" Sex had effectively been wiped out by Silence Oh, his race had continued practicing it for the sake of procreation - until technology had made that unnecessary - but it had become a mechanical, passionless act In the present time, normal Psy considered sex an impractical and worthless "animal" exercise His brethren didn’t value the beauty of bonding with another being on such an inti a line across his chest "Technically speaking?"

"I’ht say I was obsessed with this particular topic" He slid his fingers up and out to rest his hand on her abdoain

She ran her teeth over his skin "Exactly what kind of research did you do?"

"An Arrow never divulges his sources" Using the hand under her head to tangle in her hair, he kept her in place as he claimed a deep kiss She responded with pleasure but below that was a strange tension that he knew she probably wasn’t aware of

Scars from the abduction

They’d take time to heal He didn’t allow himself to think ahead to the moment when he’d enter her body That would be the most difficult part, connected so profoundly were the sensations with the nightainst herher lack of fear when she’d straddled him in the armchair

"Will that interfere with your master plan?" She san to slide south

He pushed it back up "There is a degree of flexibility built into the plan But you don’t get to touch h "I’ripped the sides of his waist "I’ll let you knohen I need so"

So she are of her anxiety, unsurprising really, given her will "Don’t scratch too hard"

Another laugh "I’ me crazy, you know that"

"Good My research tells eling wo to worry about" She licked at the skin of his neck