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"Jean-Pierre, the first time we made love you had to enthrall ht of you on me And these last two times, well, first I rode you, then this last time you took me froular way"--she looked up at hiestured first to his chest, then to hers--"I’d freak out again"

Of course bringing up sex was a mistake, because a heavy roll of his delicious coffee scent poured over her "Would you stop that?"

"Désolé, chérie Though I understand the reason behind the reference, the iht?"

"Yes, of course"

She moved to sit down in the chair she’d used the afternoon before when she had worked with Alison She bent over and shaded her eyes with her hands This was too much All toobeen taken from the streets of Boston in 1886, used as a blood slave, rescued by one of the hunkiest ht noith her va for her to cal All too old locket that she wore around her neck, trying to find an anchor Her husband had warned her repeatedly not to go shopping by herself, that a woer And so it had, but not in a way that Terence could have ever predicted Was there a lesson here for her, then? And just how right was Jean-Pierre?

The trouble was, she wasn’t sure she could do it period Not just because she resisted the idea; she also thought it possible she would really struggle to learn the skill in the first place

She looked up at hiht furrow on his brow, soleood teacher; he had skills, because here she was ready to do what she had pretty ht, Obi-Wan, let’s do this thing"

Then he s beautiful teeth

"You know, you could have been a "

He chuckled "I think I would rather rew serious "You are so beautiful, Fiona So at youseeave her the most wonderful compliments because he tied them to his heart Did he know he did that?

He closed his eyes and his nostrils flared "I wish you could s like a bakery first thing in the oodness fills the dawn air That is what I soodness" He opened his eyes "And that is who you are, Fiona When I see you with your daughter, Carolyn, and her children, I think, Oui, all that goodness"

He crossed to her and she let hiue pierce her mouth She slid her arms around his neck and he wrapped his arainst him; his heavy muscled pecs to her breasts, his rippled abdo her very low, his strong thighs pushing into her thighs,demands they couldn’t possibly follow up on, not here in this room at Militia Warrior HQ

Does this make you feel trapped? he sent

No

She didn’t say the rest: that what he was doing et?

He held her for a long ti into a ainst her, his body, hers, living, alive, here and present

Finally, he pulled back and looked into her eyes "Can you trust me and try? Can you trust that inas an ascended va of when I say that each power reatest breadth of expression, that this is necessary? That e do this, as individuals, we er?"

"You want ree, yes, but mostly I want you to think of yourself and trust me that this will be the very best for you as well, that place where you will find the greatest joy as well as the greatest strength"

She looked into his eyes and for a ht that he could sell her swain with preternatural speed, so I know you do not hold as a power"