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"Beautiful You’re so da the sun for the first ti I’d expected No condescending tone

None of the old Deacon I kept worrying would show up again

Relief flooded me at his words, and my lips twitched into a smile I kept my eyes shut when he slid the shirt over my arms and head, and let it fall to the floor as well

He settled his, a soft whiainst ?" he murmured as his mouth brushed across mine in the softest, sweetest kiss

I curled my hands around his face when he rested his forehead onDeacon couldn’t ad in thisloved by ahirowl built in his chest when I curled s around his waist and lifted ainst htest bit, and reached between our bodies to brush his fingers against where I was aching and craving him, but stopped when I attempted to bite back a ently "Tellaway fro to give me time to remember my promise to myself?" I whispered, and slowly opened my eyes and found his directly above me I continued to cradle his face for a brief moment, then let my hands slide to his neck and across his shoulders "If you have no intention of giving me your heart, then don’t do this to mine But my heart was yours even when you weren’t ready for it, so take it or letth insidein ht consume me as my body adjusted to his

But, oh God, when he moved

I never knew it could be like that I never knew it could feel like it was not enough and tooh-pitchedme from the intensity of it all, all at once

Sex with Ben had been fast and to the point, and I’d thought at the ti I could ever want But he had never touched ht burst if he didn’t continue touching ht fall apart if he didn’t stop

This was perfection

Deacon’s ht him deeper and deeper inside

That heat swirled and built until oing to shatter

My breathing grew ragged and uneven, and one by one I pressed ainst his shoulders and back, so to need to hold on

A short, broken huff was forced frohtened, eyes fluttered shut, and head fell back onto the bed "Deacon," I breathed, s locked up and

"That’s it," he breathed against ain "That’s it, Charlie, let go"