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“What I needed was you”
She gave hi smile, as if he’d handed her the world
“I need you, too, Gabriel I was sad while you were gone, even though Rebecca stayed withalone sucks”
He laughed, and her body reacted to his movements
“Reo off on my own”
“Ahis ith him” She pushed his hair back froue with a naked worew pensive
He stroked her cheek again, his blue eyes darkening “Have Iabout what Grace used to say”
“And what’s that?”
“That e is a ether until they’re one When we’re separated, I feel as if part of lad you feel it, too”
“I felt it before ere married, but it’s different now The ache is e could be so over and above love But it is I just can’t explain it”
“Neither can I Perhaps that’s why she called it a th of their bodies
“I suppose I should let you go”
“I like this It’s postcoital-cuddling-while-you’re-still-inside- enough, we’ll be able to start up again”
Julia flexed her muscles around him, and he twitched in response
“As I recall, Professor, your recovery ti to eneral, the Eether than they ever did apart That evening was no exception
(When they finally stoppedthat Julianne was still sluainst one of his pectorals He studied her profile without e to lift her chin so he could kiss her
Instead, he ers
A great burden had been lifted from him He hadn’t received exactly the answers he’d wished, but he’d received sorandfather Professor Spiegel was erudite and noble, well known for his intellectual insight and charity He was a man Gabriel desired to know better He was an ancestor whose blood he would be glad to pass on to his children
The thought comforted him
Kelly had introduced a seed of suspicion that their father was not the ht Gabriel’s ree that it was possible he’d confused one with the other Still, the facts he knew for certain about his father were dah
What kind of man abandons the htened as he thought of hirandmother?” Julianne blinked up at hi from her house to a car, with sorandmother She lives in the same house”
“You didn’t speak to them?”
“No” Hethe twin dimples that were above the curve of her backside It was one of his favorite parts of her body