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"Ow, ribs, ribs," she said, breaking their kiss Bruises Right

She used the interruption to grab his shirt and pull it over his head He gasped "Shoulder, shoulder," he grunted She freed the shirt rinned at each other

"Whew," she said "You are stinky"

"Hey, I--"

"Teasing!" she said

"Oh shut up and get back here," he said

She grabbed his belt, tugging it loose, but he grabbed her and kissed her again He slid his hands over the silk, gently, back to waist to hips to ass, and then up to cup her ass beneath the nightgown He made a sound low in his throat and suddenly picked her up and carried her to their bed

Karris held his, pulling hiainst hi in his ers into his back and subtly guiding him to what pleased her most And she held hi hi him, and the intensity of the connection alrabbed his chin, pulled him back, kissed him, and then nipped his lip in punishht as he cliers through his hair, playing with his ear

He’d never felt so known and accepted in all his life

When the capacity for reason came back to him, he propped hilow in the golden laht and she aze There were a million ways he wanted to praise her beauty, but none of his words seemed adequate to the task How could words tell her how she fascinated him, infla vow "With my body, I thee worship," he said He leaned over and kissed her neck, her breasts, her lips

They ave his all to please her, interpreting every sigh and stretch and curled toe to guide him And he took his reward Repeatedly She only shook her head and laughed when she saw his farin They lost the each other, crying, talking, ether when they were sure they couldeach other, skin to skin, her back to his stoht rose

"I love you so much I hate you, Dazen Guile," she said

"I love you, too, Karris Guile"

She sighed, pensive "Can we run away?" she asked

"Where do you want to go?" he asked

She harru away, and we haven’t even gotten dressed yet"

"We have to get dressed? Then forget it," Gavin said

Her elbow into his ribs would have been a gentle nudge if he hadn’t been flung into a wall last night

"Ouch!" he said

"Serves you right," she said

"So what’s the first rule of running away?" Gavin asked The daas red, nificent, and he had a beautiful woman in his arms This seemed to be the best place in the whole world

"You can’t bring logic or practicality into running away Everyone knows that"

"Ah So we can go naked?"