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As if sensing her ave her a playful squeeze, shifted to speak closer to her ear, tease her with his breath "I ad to make me sound sensitive, rather than a irls"

"I like Raainst his muscular heat, brushed her lips there "And you’ve already blown your cover I know you’re ayour woators"

"You passed the audition with flying colors Most I interview fail ive a few of theht her fist, the huh note that told her she wasn’t the only one vibrating with need "My woman I like the sound of that"

So did she, fool that she was "You are sensitive, in some ways," she said The way abeat of his heart so easily this way, her cheek pressed to his chest "A little heavy-handed and possessive, but there’s nothing mean about you You’re deter You’d tear your heart out if soain, let her fingers start to drift doard

"Using flattery to have your ith , there was a strained quality to his voice

"I know you’re hard, Master Why won’t you fuck your slave?" She made it a whisper and felt the jued to inch down to his cock, slide it over the head, straining against fabric He caught her hand

"Because she’s tired, and my first job is to take care of her So she’ll be up for serving h I’ to please me"

She was She was also surprised by how urgent her need was to perform that role for him, no matter her exhaustion Before her accident happened, she’d realized that the night between theone far beyond roles and perforotten fiercer the longer she ay fro was as relentless now, practically blood and bone deep She’d been so quick to believe it was gone, beyond her reach, but a need like this didn’t evaporate on coht of him or heard one of his letters, it had stirred, but at his reappearance, it had flared high and hot, restored to full, vibrant life Vibrant anything was soht beyond her reach as well

He held her like a velvet cuff, relentless and gentle both, and she relaxed into that hold

When she slid into the aters of a dreamless sleep, she was still confused, but for the first tied ache in her throat, the lonely sense of isolation squeezing her heart He was here, and she could sleep in his ar While the loss of tirined her, she was amazed she’d slept so deeply She woke as she’d fallen asleep, secure in his arms, and wondered if he’dbeneath hers, his thigh still tangled with both of hers, which initiated all sorts of prurient thoughts He wasn’t going to be deterred, however He pressed a kiss to her te more, and lifted her out of the bed

"We’ll do a workout, and then have soot a sports bra and shorts here for you"

The man had a damn Gold’s Gym in his house Within no tieant before he was an officer He put her on his tread her hands to the supports, and then worked her up to souaranteed to send her into cardiac arrest Right before that red zone, he put her into cooldown While she listened to the faint clink and thud of weights as he did his lifting near her, she could sined hi the bar over his head

"Howfor the towel he’d left on the tread about it, she realized the speed and incline probably weren’t that hard--she was just so da I do about four hundred in a deadweight lift You did good

Pull the tab out and the treadmill will stop Then coested he’d dropped the weights into their cradle She stepped off the treadht set or hiers drifted, finding fro only a pair of jeans She wondered if he was barefoot, liking that picture His short hair maybe a little ru her hand to his face, she traced his jaw, felt the old, like your chest?"

"Yeah, sweetheart Or as Lucas calls it, baby hair"