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He raised his palht his face nearer slowly so he could examine her as he approached He only closed his eyes at the lasther His , more relaxed and lazy He opened it over hers but ue Instead he kissed her lushly, his lipsstubble, scraping her face in contrast to the softness of his lips He seee and incredibly hard, within her

He levered hi the kiss, his pal her face, and he surrounded her, male and hard, protective and possessive She’d never felt so cherished Never felt so wanted He’d widened her legs and settled his hips more fully on hers She could feel the tickle of his chest hairs on her nipples It was all so intimate She wasn’t sure she could bear this, this too-close loves she’d rather keep hidden But she was caught in theand by the man above her

His hand traveled fro over her shoulder and side He paused at her hip, seely distracted by their kiss; he’d licked his way into herhi it He pulled that knee up and over his hip and left it draped there as he pressed his pelvis down into hers

She gasped into his mouth She was open and vulnerable in this position, and when he pressed, she could feel all of hiainst her h love bare her soul, whether that was his intention or not She didn’t even think he are of what he did to her But when she would’ve pushed hiain by the sure thrust of his hips He broke their kiss, raising his head to watch her as he ground slowly down on her exposed flesh She gasped at the sensation and then frowned at him How rude to stare at her in this moment! Didn’t he know that this si pleasure of the flesh, nothingain, his body hard and insistent within hers, it didn’t feel like only a physical act It was ht of hi She tried to turn her head, raising her arht her quickly, effortlessly, and trapped her wrists on the pillow on either side of her head

She sobbed, helpless and angry, and s show "Stop"

He shook his head slowly, pressing into her again, his hard body causing hers to flower open, vulnerable to all the sensations he washer feel His eyelids dropped for a second as if he, too, were overwhelmed by what he did Then he raised them and looked into her eyes "No"

He bent his head to lick the sweat at her hairline She felt the gentle abrasion of his tongue and at the same time, the pressure of his cock inside her as he hitched his hips higher, grinding with devastating accuracy onto the one spot that could not withstand his ravishth, but she felt the friction as his cock pulled against her oversensitive flesh Then he was bearing down again, grinding, grinding, grinding against her exposed clitoris, and she couldn’t stand it anymore

She came apart, all the secrets, doubts, worries, and hopes that she had kept tightly bound to herself flying outward, free and unharnessed, exposed to the chillair and to him

To hirit his teeth and tremble, undone as much as she, as he released his seed within her

HER TEACUP SHOOK as E She frowned at this outward ers stop tre Around her, no one else in the breakfast roo across fro her a too-perceptive look It really wasn’t so to be valued in a friendship, sensitivity to others It only led to aard questions and overly sylances

Emeline pointedly looked away from her dearest friend in the world and tried to focus hershe’d experienced just thatbefore that She frowned at her teacup, now perfectly still Perhaps an overabundance of sex was curdling her brain That would certainly explain her inability to think of anything else It couldn’t be healthy to be thinking, brooding, obsessing over a s and wide chest and hard, hard, hard penis Euiltily at Melisande

Who said, "I’ve translated the title of the first fairy tale in that book you gave me It’s called Iron Heart"

"Really?" For a moment, Emeline was diverted from her troubles She remembered the fairy tale Iron Heart It had been about aand true A e

Across fro about you last night"

Emeline nearly spilled her tea Hastily, she set down her teacup Obviously she just wasn’t cut out for this type of subterfuge Her nerves were overwrought "What did you tell him?"

Melisande raised herHe wouldn’t have noticed me, anyway"

Emeline was distracted from her oorries by her friend’s cynical self-assessment "Don’t be silly Of course he’d notice you"

"He doesn’t know my name"

"What?"

Melisande nodded, no trace of self-pity in her steady brown eyes "He hasn’t a clue who I am"

E a bevy of young ladies He was gesturing widely, evidently in the ht hand nearly clipped the cap of the lady sitting nearest to hiain wanted to snap at Melisande not to be silly, but the truth was, Jasper probably did indeed have no clue what Melisande’s name was He’d always paid more attention to the most beautiful ladies in their circle That was only to be expected, she supposed Men were rather shallow that way, caring s or mind Most men, anyway Samuel sat in the opposite corner, flanked by his sister and Mrs Ives--a rather plain lady of advanced years He had his head tilted to the lady as she said soht hers just as she looked at hi heat invade her cheeks Dah that he’d used her body until it ached thisin a terrible, pleasurable way; now he ht

"do hope you used a preventative," Melisande was saying across from her

"What?" Elanced at her as if she could tell that Emeline’s mind was elsewhere "I said I hoped that you used a preventative last night"

E about?"