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But I was distracted by his loling sounds as he tended to s His shaft grew stiff again, swaying with his ain? Was I learning nothing? In all these interludes with Sevastyan, I hadn’t been Natalie I’d been Natalya And that brainless hussy didn’t seem to know better

I stepped back froet dressed We need to"

"Don’t do this," heup a robe for myself, I tossed him a towel

He must’ve sensed I was about to freak out, because he covered hiret this?" His voice was filled with disbelief "You can’t I won’t let you" As if he hadn’t shocked h today, he scooped ?"

He sat on the bench, cradlingthe back of my head in a protective embrace

Only fair, since he’d shattered me today

In the cloak of the steae ainst his ear "How?" At one point I’d thought I would lose my mind

"I haven’t I’ve just shown you a different facet of yourself"

Clasping hi him like a lifeline, I buried my face in the spot where his neck s?"

He said nothing

I pulled back to meet his eyes, found it impossible not to kiss his face My lips touched upon the askew bridge of his nose, his chin, then smoothed over the lean perfection of his cheeks He squeezedto relish this attention, this affection from me

Between kisses, I asked, "What do you want from me?"

Silence

"Did you mean what you said about obsession?"

He turned his head away

"Ugh!" I disentangledfor arments "You infuriate me!" I found ed theot it I turned from him, shucked off my robe, then strapped on my bra

"Damn it, Natalie, I don’t knohat to say to you to ease the way you feel"

"Of course you don’t" I whirled around on hiers! I don’t know you!" With difficulty, I pulled s

"What do you want to know?"