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Because he couldn’t hurt Anna

Sweet, innocent Anna

Stilling, he held her hips tightly in his hands She tried to buck into him, but when he wouldn’t let herwith desperate desire on her sweat-dampened face

"Cole?"

"So s the salt fro up with her oeet essence "I don’t want to hurt you"

He’d been saying the sa to her since practically the first moment they’d met, and damn it, he didn’t think he could live with himself if he ever hurt her, if he accidentally ripped her apart because he’d needed her too bad to think straight

"Then why are you hurting ret "Jesus, Anna, I didn’tto force hi what he was doing to her, he couldn’t e more than an inch

"I love it when you’re rough, Cole I love it when you can’t control yourself"

He blinked hard, his brain working to convince hi you"

"The only time you hurt me is when you stop"

And in that mo what he wanted to hear, but was speaking the truth--he let the switch go

All the way up

The next heartbeat had hi into her so hard that the entire couch slid across the floor The knowledge that he hadn’t i her ed her puy with a ck that was as hard as steel and so thick that he could feel her sensitive tissue working to stretch around hi into her, he felt itthe telltale way her ed breaths ca in her chest, the way her nails dug in deep along with her heels, the way her thigh htened on his hips Any other time he would have focused on her pleasure, would have made sure she hit her climax before he did, but now that the beast was out, there was no locking hihly cupped a breast in each hand, her hard niles searing the centers of his palms, and he rode her like he’d never ridden anyone Her head was thrown back, her eyes closed tight as she held onto his forear the wave that he’d becoasp left her throat as she began to cliht into his soul, he saw his own pleasure mirrored in those ocean depths

A pleasure so deep that he wasn’t sure how either of the to survive without it

His roar shook the s as he exploded, her ht that he should pull out, that they weren’t reallyhis come deep into her wo but riding out the biggest, strongest orgasm he’d had in thirty-four years

Cole shifted the beneath her on the couch and Anna was plastered over his big, hard body, still holding on for dear life, still trying to figure out how to breathe, how to think She was still trying to figure out hoas even possible for anything--or anyone--to ood To feel so much