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Even now, she felt the boulder in her throat just thinking about the possibility of having to be around hihtness she felt in her chest all night after Roni had inforhter now, and she could feel herself starting to wheeze again What in the world was she thinking when she started this?

"Nellie?"

Startled, she turned to see Abel walking toward her She’d been staring into the trunk of her SUV where she’d set her tray down "You okay? I called your na away the warm tears that she hadn’t even noticed had filled her eyes "I’inary things around as she blinked wildly in the hopes that the tears would be gone by the tieratedly in desperation and turned, suess"

His sht wear you out?"

Surprised by his question, she continued to s at her now only confused her already aching heart "Yeah, the concert was over pretty late, and then we had soht"

While his eyes searched hers, he didn’t say anything Instead, he took another step further and kissed her, softly, sweetly, the way that le time As usual, she couldn’t su insides were now doing su her face, he pulled away but still sprinkled kisses around her lips Closing her eyes, she sighed, giving into hiain This is where she wanted to be forever Even as her head screa to the unspoken eerous given how she was already feeling, but her instincts were screa out her head that this wasn’t a kiss fro more than to relieve his needs There was so ht?

He finally stopped long enough to stare at her for a moment "Can I follow you home?" he whispered "I wanna ht, she nodded As pathetic as it was to clutch on to so love before He’d told her he wanted to fk her or taste her or needed to be inside her on more than one occasion, but he never saidinto his eyes "I want you to make love to me"

He smiled one of the sweetest so"

Deterht as Abel swayed in and out of her slowly and rhyth love to her again in the earlyher back, she closed her eyes as she felt the now fa her fingers into his big, hard back

Speeding up, Abel’s brows pinched, and he began tonow as he rocked into her this tiht before He puht, but she loved it She moaned in reaction and in anticipation of her already throbbing pre-climax

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" She cried out as she came more intensely each ti drive deep into her, lifting her waist up against his body He remained that way for a few ," he said breathlessly against her ear "But then it’s always a his hand into hers and squeezing it, keeping his body on hers, exactly where she wanted it

They lay there, breathing heavily as she ran her fingers through his hair, pushing away the ean to creep in She would not do this How could she? So what if he wasn’t hers entirely? As tempted as she was to put it out there--tell hi because she was al it too--she just couldn’t What if she rong? What if what he’d told Noah was really true? He didn’t want drama That’s exactly what this would be because she felt so overwhelmed with emotion that she was certain she’d break down if she opened up to hi of a risk He’d run and she’d lose what little he illing to give her

She was only glad now that it was too dark last night for Abel to see the tears that spilled out just as she came so dramatically when he ht’s mixture of emotions had just mounted until that very moment, and it couldn’t be helped This was now beyond her control Her heart was in this now, and as much as she wanted to believe she could walk away from this unscathed, she knew better And yet she still couldn’t bring herself to walk away from this man

What scared her most was that, even as horrendous as her divorce with her ex had been, she feared thisher divorce had beenher than Rick She’d felt the disconnect between herself and Rick long before she’d even found out that he’d been having an affair with her own sister The old-fashioned thinking instilled by her mother had told her that divorce was not an option, so she’d turned the other cheek when she suspected so ry, but she knew the end was near Even when her delusional heart chose to believe hiht hio was gone She was no longer in love with hi to start over and being alone