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How could he ever think that?

She opened her , "My parents wanted to toughen me up, but deep down they saddled h They made me think I had to be perfect, to take care of everyone else, tobad ever happened, just to prove I was a nize how far overboard I went I can’t protect Noah fro him feel incapable I can’t force Irene to be the mother I think she should be I can’t even be sure I’ll find your brother I can only do ht her hand to his cheek "I have scars, so deep that even Susan, Bob, and the Mavericks couldn’t heal the htly "We’ve both got baggage, and I knoon’t always be easy, but I’ll never give up on us again Never"

"No ive you up And I will continue to do everything inyour brother hoainst hiht around each other "I just need to keep this place until we find Gideon" She gazed into his face, so beautiful that she lost her breath the same way she had the very first tiain"

"No, you won’t" His deep voice resonated through her with a delicious thrill "You’ll be with et all possessive like this?"

"I wanted to possess you the first tih cheek caressed hers "Even when I told myself I could never have you, I wanted you so bad I couldn’t see straight" He nipped her earlobe, ets what he wants"

Ari threw her ar him deeply "Make love to me, Matt I need you so badly, need you to--"

He cut off her words by shoving his war her top over her head, he dipped down to kiss the swell of her breasts, his fingers slipping inside her bra

"I know exactly what you need, baby"

He always had

They both tore at her jeans, then his pants, throwing everything across the room until they were skin to skin on the couch

"I love you," he whispered, rocking slowly against her, sensitizing every inch of her skin "I love everything about you" He kissed her breasts until she moaned and writhed beneath his to you"

He worked his way down her body, proving over and over how enous zone Finally, on his knees beside the couch, he licked the very center of her, sending her spiraling into sheer sensation She shoved her fingers through his hair, so silky, so thick, as she reveled in the sweet, hot sensuality of hishis head, his thumb on the apex of her pleasure, he whispered, "I love you"

His voice wrapped around the words she’d longed to hear as hehi back Just pure pleasure

And asped out his name as he filled her up, her body, her heart, her very soul The feel of hi through her, setting every cell of her being on fire

"I want this every day Forever" His hand on her hip, he pulled her even ht, dark with desire, bri with emotion as he made his vows to her "I love you I will always love you You are "