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“Oh, Malek, I know that!” She hugged hi her heart “What we shared, not onlywe shared, every second of it, was the best thing that has ever happened to h on your conscience now” Suddenly so occurred to her “Say, would you have takenhuff “After you pointed out how you could have been lost, and we both wouldn’t have lived first for not being together? Oh, yes, I would have” His eyes blazed with such adoration and agony-mixed contrition that her heart dropped a few beats “But I would have initiated you so thoroughly you wouldn’t have felt thathis belief “The pain was glorious, Malek—glorious A searing evidence of our intinitude that I probably can’t describe it to you, as you never had anything comparable”
“I did,” he contradicted “Not a replica of the physical experience, but falling in love for the first ti, spiritually and physically”
“Oh …” And how stupid was it that she felt jealousy crush her heart?
“You” He caught the tre kiss “My first and last love”
Oh Oh He’d read her ed into hi kisses, the fuse of her hunger relit Overco to feel his potency
He stopped her with a look that liquefied her bones, rolled her over hiot out of bed with her wrapped around his waist
He took her to the bathrooht her how to satisfy her urges, how to co her she’d been born to drive hiht hiht her to another one
They were clinging under the floater,at the profoundness of their intimacy, when Malek finally ency, ya roh galbi Then I want to share another first with you”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
“YOU’RE TOTALLY off track,” Malek er?” Jay could barely turn to gape back at hi on her shoulder, his hard body pressed into her back, his thighs enveloping hers
He laughed, cuddled her more securely “If after you’ve been around it, you still can’t guess, I’aze over the depression of el waha—the oasis that sprawled below theave her an even higher vantage point frohest elevation before the desert surrendered its dunes to the rocky terrain that heralded Jabal al Shamekh’s ling, the explosion of lush green life in thein the hundreds of thousands, wild flowers and cacti, ietables, especially apricots, figs and corn, astounding in size and taste To co, beside the prerequisite horses, caoats, wildlife was plentiful Malek’s favorite moments hen she spotted a deer or a fox or an unknown bird and bounced up and down in delight