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The way to reassure her ith actions, not words He pulled down her panties, and she stepped out of thes, over the lovely curves of her calves, over the slossy black pubic bush, and the hairs bristled crisply against his face As he stood, he cupped her firently kneaded the taut flesh, and she ain The kiss lasted either a few seconds or a few minutes, and when it ended, Hilary said, "Hurry"

As she pulled back the covers and got into bed, Tony stripped off his own clothes Nude, he stretched out beside her and took her in his arms

They explored each other with their hands, endlessly fascinated by textures and shapes and angles and sizes and degrees of resiliency, and his erection throbbed as she fondled it

After a while, but long before he actually entered her, he felt strangely as if he wereone creature, not physically or sexually so h some sort of truly miraculous psychic osmosis Overwhelnificent body, but most deeply affected by the unique murmurs and movements and actions and reactions that made her Hilary and nobody but Hilary, Tony felt as if he had taken so His perceptions seee of his own senses, so that he felt alh Hilary’s eyes as well as through his own, feeling with his hands and her hands, tasting herhis mouth with hers Two minds, meshed Two hearts, synchronized

Her hot kisses made him want to taste every part of her, every delicious inch, and he did, arriving, at long last, at the wars and licked the moist center of her, opened those secret folds of flesh with his tongue, found the hidden nubble that, when softly flicked, caused her to gasp with pleasure

She began tolash

"Tony!"

He ue and teeth and lips

She arched her back, clutched the sheets with both hands, thrashed ecstatically

As she raised herself, he slipped his hands under her, grabbed her rump, held her to hi deeply, rapidly She tried to pull away from him when the pleasure became too intense, but then afor an to quiver all over, and those shallow tre shudders of pure delight She gasped for breath and tossed her head and cried out deliriously, rode the ithin her, ca, contracting, relaxing, until finally she was exhausted She collapsed, and sighed

He raised his head, kissed her fluttering belly, then ue

She reached down between theripped the iron hardness of hi, this complete union, she was filled with a new erotic tension

He opened her with his fingers, and she released hiuided himself into her

"Yes, yes, yes," she said as he filled her up "My lovely Tony Lovely, lovely, lovely Tony"

"You’re beautiful"

It had never been sweeter for him He braced himself above her on his fully-extended arms, looked down at her exquisite face Their eyes locked, and after aat her, but into her, through her eyes, into the essence of Hilary Thomas, into her soul She closed her eyes, and a moment later he closed his, and he discovered that the extraordinary bond was not destroyed when the gaze was broken

Tony had made love to other women, but he had never been as close to any of the was so special, he wanted to e with hiether But this time he did not have the kind of control that usuallytoward the brink and could do nothing to stop hihter and slicker and hotter than other women he had known; it was not inal muscles; it was not that her perfect brsts drove him wild or that her silken skin was far silkier than that of any other wos were true, but it was the fact that she was special to him, extraordinarily special in a way that he had not yet even fully defined, that

She sensed his onrushing orgasm, and she put her hands on his back, pulled hiht, but she seeainst his chest as he settled onto her She lifted her hps and ground her pelvis against him, and he thrust harder and faster Incredibly, she started to coan to spurt uncontrollably She held hi his name as he erupted and erupted within her, thickly and forcefully and endlessly within her, in the deepest and darkest reaches of her As he emptied himself, a tre need swept through hio

Afterwards, they lay side by side on the bed, holding hands, heartbeats gradually easing

Hilary was physically and e out by the experience The nu power of her claxes had shaken her She’d never felt anything quite like it Each orgas to the core of her, jolting through every fiber, an indescribably thrilling current But Tony had given her a great dealelse, so splendid and powerful that was beyond words

She are that some people would say the word "love" perfectly described her feelings, but she wasn’t ready to accept that disturbing definition For a long, long time, since her childhood, the words "love" and "pain" had been inextricably linked in Hilary’s mind She couldn’t believe that she was in love with Tony Clemenza (or he with her), dared not believe it, for if she were to do so, she would make herself vulnerable, leave herself defenseless

On the other hand, she had difficulty believing that Tony would knowingly hurt her He wasn’t like Earl, her father He wasn’t like anyone she had ever known before There was a tenderness about him, a quality of mercy, that made her feel that she would be perfectly safe in his hands Perhaps she ought to take a chance with him Maybe he was the one man orth the risk

But then she realized how she would feel if their luck together went sour after she had put everything on the line for him That would be a hard blow She didn’t know if she would bounce back from that one

A problem

No easy solution

She didn’t want to think about it right now She just wanted to lay beside hiether

She began to re, the erotic sensations that had left her weak, soered warmly in her flesh

Tony rolled onto his side and faced her He kissed her throat, her cheek "A penny for your thoughts"

"They’re worth more than that," she said

"A dollar"

"More than that"

"A hundred dollars?"

"Maybe a hundred thousand"

"Expensive thoughts"

"Not thoughts, really Memories"

"Hundred-thousand-dollar memories?"

"Mo"

"You know," he said, "you surprised elic--but you’ve got a wonderfully bawdy streak in you"

"I can be bawdy," she admitted "Very bawdy"

"You like my body?"

"It’s a beautiful body"

For a while, they talkeddrea to the softly, but with a more serious note in his voice, Tony said, "You know, of course, I’o of you"

She sensed that he was prepared to make a commitment if he could determine that she was ready to do likewise But that was the problem She wasn’t ready She didn’t know if she would ever be ready She wanted him Oh, Jesus, how she wanted hi or rewarding than the two of the each other’s lives with their separate talents and interests But she dreaded the disappoint her She had put all of those terrible years in Chicago with Earl and Eard the lessons she had learned in that teneo She was afraid of co for a way to avoid the i to keep the conversation frivolous, she said, "You’re never going to let go ofto do police ithto determine if she understood what he had said

Nervously, she said, "Don’t hurry me, Tony I need time Just a little tiht now I’ht time to be serious"

"So I’ll try to be silly" he said

"What shall we talk about?"

"I want to know all about you"

"That sounds serious, not silly"

"Tell you what You be half-serious, and I’ll be half-silly We’ll take turns at it"

"All right First question"

"What’s your favorite breakfast food?"

"Cornflakes," she said

"Your favorite lunch?"

"Cornflakes"

"Your favorite dinner?"

"Cornflakes"

"Wait a ure you were serious about breakfast But then you slipped in two silly responses in a row"