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Shehab felt as if a stinging slap had landed on his cheek

And every preconceived opinion of her crashed back on hily reality

Here she was, the woman who’d treated him to such a kaleidoscope of e before hi to hi a lid

She slid shut her phone and looked at hiirl who’d just done soled to eression, to access the desire that was independent of his opinion of her He felt it only beco fiercer without the shackles of softness, the brakes of eled not to rise and pounce on her He had no idea how he only smiled, opened his arms wide

She rose and rushed to throw herself into the fe she wasn’t pretending about

She couldn’t wait for hiht, he’d end the waiting He’d sate himself with her Then, when she’d served her purpose, even as they continued their shae, he’d discard her And he wouldn’t feel bad about it

She deserved whatever he did to her

Shehab was doing things to Farah she hadn’t known there were to be done

All through their flight, he’d proved to her there was no ceiling to the sensations he couldher hand as they talked Shaping each finger with his fingertips, sliding up and down their length, following the outline of each bone and joint,the resilience of each pad of flesh She lay back, enveloped in his sister’s cool, white cotton sundress, drenched in the cold sweat of sti that he’d never stop exposing her to his attention and appreciation

Suddenly she interrupted his account about the neighboring Daenous zones…”

She started to bite her lip, stopped, sighed They’d been talking almost nonstop for the past twenty hours, all but for the half hour she’d left to change and shower, followed by two separate half hours when he’d left her to do the same and then take care of other details He was beyond certain by now that she had no filtering syste through uncensored-and he kept assuring her he loved it

His smile knocked her breath froo hoe in hio It had worried her For about a nanosecond

She trusted him, wanted him to feel as intensely about her as she did about him And his intensity had so many levels and textures, it felt like a deep ocean she could plunge into forever, exploring and experiencing, and never co your hands could awaken new erogenous areas, in both my body and brain” Her heat shot up another notch at his confession She was already addicted to how open he was about his feelings, too He took her hand to his lips, flicked his tongue lightly along her lifeline She hoped he wasn’t shortening said life’s expectancy He had her squir before he withdrew “And by the e’ve arrived”

She twisted around to peer out theThey were descending, approaching his island It was shaped like an irregular kidney, with its concave side harboring bright emerald waters, its outer curve surrounded by much darker ones In the noon sun its wraparound beaches shone alroves covered the over one apex of the island, just above a low, huge building that overlooked a bay Dense palm trees and what looked like all sorts of desert flora surrounded it on three sides The jet was flying over other annexed structures heading to the other end of the island when it hit her