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"Take your shoes off," he says, and I bend down to tackle the small buckles "Lift your skirt up around your waist I want you bare against the leather Oh, God, Nikki, yes," he says as I coainst my red-hot skin The vibrations beneath me seem even s, baby Just like the wo with all they portend--are as erotic as his touch, and my already hyperaware body kicks into overdrive I’ainst my skin, every beat of my heart, every tiny drop of perspiration that beads betweenand wedge it between the door and the dashboard Then I take the other and hook earshift box I’m spread as wide as possible, and when I reach down to recline the seat, the led sound My entire body tingles, but I as

"She lies there, silently begging for her lover Her cunt is slick, her breasts tender, her nipples begging to be sucked"

"Dah," Damien continues, and I bite back a frustratedcunt"

He leans over and adjusts the air conditioner so that a streas It’s soft and decadent and it makes me ache

"If he were kind, he’d let her touch herself, but if you look closely at the painting, you see that her hand is in the air, wanting, but not reaching Did you notice that, Nikki?"

"No," I say fir herself"

"Are you? Well, that’s the thing about art It’s different for everybody Shall I tell you what I see?"

I s and nod

"I see theto hi her pleasure And not just a quick fuck and a fast orgasm, Nikki No, he wants to create their own nirvana To build pleasure upon pleasure until the lines cross and neither is sure if it’s torht"

I lick my lips, my mouth dry I’m hyperaware of my body Of the motion of the car Of my breasts, so tender now beneath the thin material

"He wants his lover to trust him To surrender herself to him completely To let him orchestrate the pleasures of her body But he leaves the ultimate choice up to her He lets her have one hand free, and that is the moment Blaine captured on the canvas"

He turns and looks briefly athis attention to the road "And so the question is, does she touch herself or does she trust him?" His voice is as warm and soft and intimate as the caress I crave "You tell me, Nikki What does the woman do?"

"She trusts him," I whisper

And then I close my eyes and lose myself to the motion of the car and Damien’s promise of what is to come

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"We’re here," Damien says, after a journey that lance out theand see that we’re pulling into the driveway of the Century Plaza hotel