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"No Just let irl in the world in my bed"

She blushed, but this time she didn’t try to hide any part of herself from him Not her beautiful bodyor the beauty that was inside all the luscious, crea curves

He stripped off his clothes and put on a condo over her And then her arhtly to his hips and he knew the rest of the naughty things he wanted to do to her would have to wait

Because right now all he wanted to do was make love to the woman he’d waited a lifetime to find

"Love ether

And, oh, how he loved her

Not just with his entire body, not only with every beat of his heartbut from the very depths of his soul

The h Marcus’s bedroo the picnic lunch he’d pulled together froe

Nicola had never felt so exhausted--or so happy--and with her stomach full of food and her body full of pleasure, she yawned and lay down in one of her favorite positions, her head on his lap and one of her hands in his She never wanted to stop lying there looking up at his beautiful face

But her long tour hours--and the three rounds of incredibly acrobatic sex they’d just had--had her yawning

He s My sleepy little kitten"

"Funny," she said on another huge yawn, "I was just about to say you have surprising stamina for an old man" She hu at the line about "keeping away h and hu up into his eyes, she kneas ti to hi to save you from my circus life" When his hand didn’t still on her hair and his leg muscles didn’t tense up under her, she kneas safe to say, "That was a big part of it, but I was also scared of trusting Scared of falling So hugely scared that I’d be hurt again Only this time I kneould be so much worse, because I loved you That’s why I ran that day after lunch at your ht it would hurt less that way But running onlyhurt h, I can’t help thinking that if you hadn’t run, I wouldn’t have gotten the chance to chase after you"