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"Yourto show up this time, is she?"

"Nope"

"Good Then I can do this without being killed"

She kissesour bodies do the talking We are inside the doorway, inside the cabin But I’ her, pressing against her as she’s pressing againstoff our shoes and she’s directing s, and then we are aardly, enjoyably stuBreath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and s itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations

I pull back from a kiss and look at her She stops and looks at me

"Hey," I say

"Hey," she says

I trace the contours of her face, her collarbone She runs her fingers along my shoulders, my back Kisses my neck, my ear

For the first time, I look around It’s a one-room cabin--the bathroo down at us with glass eyes

"Where are we?" I ask

"It’s a hunting cabin ured it was safe to break in"

I search for broken s, signs of forced entry "You broke in?"

"Well, with the spare key"

Her hand moves to the patch of hair at the center of my chest, then to htly over the smoothness of the skin there

"That was quite a welcome," I tell her

"It’s not over yet," she says And, just like that, we’re pressed together again

I a her unbutton the top ofher re, but with each step, the pressure builds How far is this going? How far should this go?

I know our nakednessI know our nakedness is asThis is e look like e are coo e no longer want to hide I want her I want this But I’m afraid

We move as if we’re in a fever, then we slon andnow, just sheets This is not my body, but it’s the body she wants

I feel like a pretender

This is the source of the pressure This is the cause of ht now I am here with her completely But toht now But toone

I want to sleep with her I want to sleep with her so much

But I also want to wake up next to her the nextwith sensation When Rhiannon asks if I want to, I knohat the body would answer