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She blushed, her cheeks going waraze

"Are you tender today?" he asked gently

Her cheeks fla froed her chin back up with a tender touch

"I don’t ask to embarrass you I just want to know if you’re up for what I have planned"

She shts were broadcast in his sh it"

"Ah, such a grand sacrifice," he said, areen eyes "I will endeavor to not make you suffer too badly"

"Oh, I’m sure you will," she said breathlessly

Then his gaze grew more serious "Are you too tender, sweetheart? There are other ways of pleasuring you that doesn’t require me to penetrate you"

Gah, but she had to stop this endless blushing every tihted with her shyness, his sentle as his words

"I’m okay, Donovan Truly And if it hurts too much, we can stop, can’t we?"

"Absolutely I’ll not do anything that hurts you, Eve Ever"

As he said the last, heher in its soft cocoon He trailed a finger down her cheek, caressing, sending shivers down her spine Just his touch Soertips and she was shaking with need Would it always be so? Would she always need him, desire him as she did in this very hten with time If it did, then she certainly had much to look forward to And then she realized that for the first ti of the future in optimistic terms As if she didn’t have the very real fear of Walt and the police and her reality of being a wanted criave her hope He gave her the confidence that her future was not fixed It was in fact undecided It could be what she wanted it to be And she wanted her future to be with Donovan

A sigh escaped and he dreay, staring intently into her eyes

"What are you thinking, honey?"

She s her happiness to spill onto her features "The future"

"Ah, happy thoughts then, I hope?"

"The very best," she whispered

His eyes gleahts even happier? I want to undress you I want to ht I want to take it nice and slow As I should have last night Let ive you the experience I should have given you last night"

"Oh, Donovan," she breathed out "Don’t you know? Last night was perfect The ht of my life You can’t make it any better It’s not possible It’s only your first time once, and ined"

Her eyes narrowed and she glanced up at him in question

"Tell me you haven’t worried about this all day"

To her surprise he looked slightly eistered in his eyes

"It may have occurred to hed "Good Lord, Donovan You’ve got to stop with the virgin guilt You didn’t hurt etting out of it tonight, you’ve got another think co his "

"Good," she said huskily "Noe’ve gotten that out of the way, there is thedressed Think you can do so about that?"

"Last one naked is a rotten egg," he challenged

"That’s not fair," she sputtered as he started ripping at his shirt "Women have far ,his jeans down his thick legs

She hastily tore her shirt over her head, fu with her bra straps even as she reached for the fly of her jeans She hadn’t even stepped fro in front of her, naked, arms folded over his chest in uess you’ll have to help uess I can make that sacrifice"

She rolled her eyes as he turned her to unhook her bra But there was no iers worked slowly as he re it forward to slide the straps the rest of the way down her ar for her hands so she could step the rest of the way fro around her ankle Then he reverently pulled her panties down and let the tiny scrap fall to the floor

"That’s better" His gaze raked up and down her naked body "Much, much better," he murmured as he bent his head to kiss her

She wrapped her ar hiether She wasn’t sure who sighed Maybe they both did But there was a harsh exchange of breath She could taste hi it before finally letting it go for the briefest of ain

He backed her slowly toward the bed, arms wrapped as solidly around her as hers rapped around hi A slow, decadent, seductive thrill Moving sensuously, unhurried, as if they had all the time in the world

She didn’t want slow and unhurried She wanted him with a ferocity that until now had been co want Now that her sexuality had been awakened, now that she’d been sho very good it could be Unspoiled by memories of Walt’s depravity She savored the coil of desire that whispered through her body, beco second

He started to ease her onto the bed, but she pulled hith as he tumbled down on top of her