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"Her heart gave out," he said, his voice quiet and steady "She’s only eighteen years older than I a ti" In fact, it was a enital heart probleued Søren’s uise, Gisela had always called it Had she been a healthier child, she never would have had the patience to stay inside and learn the piano

"I know, Little One It’s onlyI thought I would have her a few more years The woo"

She laughed and buried her face against his thigh

"That is not fair" She sain "I am here, after all When you need me, I’ht his lips to her forehead

"I always need you"

She raised her head and kissed hi the passion He pulled her off the floor and into his arms

"When does our flight leave?" he whispered against her lips

"We have time" That was all he needed to know, all thatin front of the fireplace and stripped her of her clothes They had no tiers But they didn’t need them Søren knew her body better than even she knew it, kne to bring it to the extree of pleasure and down into the depths of painall with his bare hands

Gently he ran his fingers all over her naked body and desire quickened at the lightest of his touches He didn’t iven up to hiave her the freedom to study him He’d no doubt been asleep when his sister in Denmark had called Only in sleep did his perfect blond hair ever get mussed It fell over his forehead, al at his eyes She’d never known a e that so dark eyelashes She and Kingsley had gotten stoned together one night and spent an hour sitting in Kingsley’s bathtub waxing poetic about those damn eyelashes If she remembered correctly, they never even turned on the water Or taken their clothes off, for that er over her lips

"Always, sir" She nodded, and tried to steady her breathing

Søren slid his hand froain He pressed his thumb hard into the top of the asped with a sudden pain she felt even in her legs He pressed again and her back arched off the rug If she’d been standing her legs would have involuntarily collapsed under her

HeSøren raised her ankle to his legs and kissed the soft spot above the outer heel She braced herself for as next When Søren covered her mouth with his other hand, she ers only he dug deep into the cavity under her ankle bone The pain caainst his palm

For what felt like an hour he traversed her body with his hands, finding all the pressure points on her that when touched the right ould send acute agony flashing through her body like lightning By the ti She had not a singlewould have hurt less

Søren licked his fingertips and pressed thehs wide open with his knees

Pleasure pooled between her legs and radiated out through her entire body He kissed her mouth, her neck, her niles, and she raised her hips into his hand

"Please" she whispered, desperate to have hi her as always the cruelest of his tortures

Tonight he didn’t make her wait He moved her onto her stomach and raised her knee to her chest to open her htest of groans as she raised her hips to take him deeper As he thrust into her, he kissed the back of her neck, her shoulders He pressed her wrists into the floor, holding her ar, min lille en," he breathed into her skin "Du tilhører ht, I do," she whispered back in English

He lingered inside her, not rushing, not hurrying to the end She relaxed underneath him and cherished each moment of their joined bodies She felt pleasure with other men, ecstasy even sometimesbut only when Søren was inside her did she feel whole

Søren ca into the back of her neck and his teeth in her shoulder She turned her head and kissed his upper arether--it was far too great a risk Tonight she threw caution to the wind and had booked the saive her grieving priest the first-class seat She’d hide out in coach They wouldn’t even get to speak to each other for the entire trip, but even apart for the eight-hour flight, she would keep so of him inside her

Once in Den to come to a country so secular where no one knew him or her When Søren told her years earlier that less than one percent of the Danish population was Catholic, she asked if they couldOnce at his sister’s house, the peace she felt being in such a safe and secular country evaporated At the door she felt a sudden fearfulness, a sense of not belonging here anymore Søren seemed to sense her fears for he took her hand in his, kissed it and whispered, "This is your home, too"