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But Jake wouldn’t let her fill her lungs as his ue swirled with hers, his hands ainst her softness, and she reveled in the slight scratch of his large hands, the calloused fingertips that so deftly played over her, inside of her

He shifted so that his entire weight was over her and she instinctively opened her legs wider to give him room to settle between them He pulled the black T-shirt up over her head and threw it to the floor The head of his shaft slipped and slid over her sex and she arched into hi hiidly above her as he lifted his nant?"

She didn’t knohy he was asking her that question "Yes I’m sure"

"I’m safe, Sophie I just had a blood test and I swear I’h the lust-filled haze that clouded her brain, she realized what he was saying He didn’t want to use a condo between theht et out the words, "I am, too"

"Thank God," he said, and the words really did sound like a prayer of thanks falling fro for hiether Instead, he gently slid his hands out from beneath her hips Not to fondle her brsts Not to tease her skin the way he had just a little while ago But to reach for her face, to hold her jaw so gently with those big hands that were capable of such strength

He didn’t kiss her, just stared at her with those dark eyes, and she was held completely in his thrall "You’re e, protective inner voices to stop her froe of anticipation?

"I’ain as he slowly entered her, his eyes still locked with hers Sophie had never known such intensity, in or out of bed, as Jake’s presence wrapped itself around her just as his ar her steady when she otherould have broken apart

She had to tell him, needed him to know "I’ve never felt like this before" Pleasure so sweet couldn’t possibly exist And yet, she no it did "I never knew"

It hat she’d said to hiain as he her in the sky and washed over them

"All those books, and you never knew"

Her eyes widened as she realized he was teasing her, the corners of his beautifulup for a split second before he bent down to press one soft kiss against her forehead, and then each cheekbone, beforelower to the curve of her neck, her collarbone, the upper swell of her brsts

If their love in Napa had been a fierce staccato of desire and unquenchable need, the way Jake now lingered over every inch of her skin was like a beautiful sonata, playing slowly as the soundtrack to their coupling

She knew sex was siht she could hold part of herself back fro pleasure in his touch Only, now she had to face just how i hi, to have him touch her like this, to know his intention was to convince her to let him be a part of her and her baby’s lifeit was too much for Sophie to resist