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Laughing, I pulled her flush against ood deal The truth is that you could have done better But no one else would have loved you like I do" I kissed her gently, h we have all these huge responsibilities now, you’ll still always come first to me"

"I know"

That was easy I arched a brow, surprised by the confidence in her response "You do?"

"It’s kind of hard not to believe you when you won’t stop harping on about it"

"I don’t harp"

"Yes, you do" She slid her arood deal I love you in spite of the harping, and the overprotectiveness, and the fact that you’re squeezingover V-Tube can see"

"Can’t help it" I gave it another squeeze "Do you reht weto the time we had duelled and she had put me on my ass

I scowled "No, after that You said you could ihts"

"Actually, I think you’ll find that I originally said ‘seven’ nights"

"and I proposed a bet: that if you didn’t et to taste you But we both know that no one can get you to do anything that you don’t want to do So the question is: would you have letthe excuse that I was just honouring the bet…yes But I’d have wanted you to do it – although hell would have frozen over before I admitted that"

"I wouldn’t have done it, you know" I could see that I’d surprised her "I didn’t want to taste you until I knew for sure that you wanted it Of course I strongly suspected that you did, but the fact that you enjoyed whippingme physical pain didn’t instill h love"

"You fought ht me on every level…but I wanted you too much, and I was too deterift could sever our bond; it was solid and untouchable

Her arhtly "And you’re mine as well"

"Baby, I’ve been yours since you put hed "We should thank Antonio for playing cupid I’ve got soames of my own to plan" Her smile was impish "Want to play?"

"What did you have in mind? Or should I say, who?"