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His hands stroke me, his lips dance over me "That’s all I need, too," he says "You, Nikki You inme"

My hands are on his back, on the curve of his ass My legs are parted, s closer so that his body brushes ainst skin

I do not want the sweetness of this moment to end, but I am wet and ready and I have to have him I have to feel him inside me I have to know that he is ether--and that ill be

"Da "Now Please, please, I need you now"

He shifts on the bed, easingme up for hi slowly, thrusting slowly, so ly slowly, until I a "Damien, now I need you now"

"I need you too, Nikki," he says and thrusts hard insidehelectricity spinning round and round between us

He works a ical rhyth hi until I feel as though I a above it Until I aer a woman but an explosion of stars

Until all I am is Damien’s, and that is all I ever want to be

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Dao meet with Charles at the Tower apartment so that he can pack for Germany I peek in on Jamie, but she’s dead to the world I’m bummed, because I’m worried about Damien and I want someone to talk to, but I also know she needs to sleep it off

My worries can wait

I putter around the kitchen for a fewblack coffee I can’t shake this sense of foreboding that has settled over me, and I finally decide that I have to see Da ready to leave for Munich, I need to see hiht of day that everything he toldThat I believe in hie quickly into a peasant skirt, a pink tank top layered over a white one, and flip-flops, then liloss and mascara I don’t knohat ti late

Since I don’t know if the paparazzi are clinging like leeches to the front sidewalk, I use the back route to the parking area Yes, they ate, but with any luck I’ll be down the street before they realize it’s rapher carin As far as I’ue with the devil, and I can think of little that issummer in the San Fernando Valley when the beach and cool ocean breezes are only a fewwith the paparazzi Instead, I’ to Daht so that the Honda doesn’t stall out on et to don stall-free, and then it is only a few blocks before I pull into the underground parking structure that serves Stark Tower and the adjacent building

I grab the closest parking place, yank er seat, and sprint to the elevator