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Without a word, he reached for -quick hands and shredded the panties, and then reached up to ely tore it from my body Reflexively, I crossed

"You had other things you were going to put on forhe’d dropped in the entryway

"I did"

He was already shaking his head "You won’t need theht now"

Bennett kissed h, ihs "Undressbare before him like this He’d seen me nad thousands of times, and God knows he’d bossed me around like this even more often But this moment felt so loaded It wasn’t the easy instinctual sex we had every night This was Bennett, undressingto be similarly stripped so we could have Married Sex in a Fancy Bed in an E night, wedding night pounded through my head Maybe this is exactly what he felt in the li it nore the way my hand shook when I pulled at his tie and slid it frorabbed both of my wrists in one hand The other slid down er overinto where I ettest

"Why are you shaking, Mrs Ryan?"

With a flash of irritation, I bit his bottom lip when he leaned closer for a kiss But then I closed er back and forth over the rise offor an answer

"I’m a little nervous, Mr Mills," I ad as he released rip "You? You’re nervous?" He looked like he was on the verge of yelling or laughing, I wasn’t sure which "You’re nervous with , I said, "It’s just--"

"You’re nervous?" His tone had changed this tih the two, short words He was definitely on the verge of laughing

I re the fun of me?"

He shook his head slowly, but with a devilish s his shirt inthe pop of the buttons as they tore free and skittered to the floor "You’re ht?"

His expression straightened and his brow sreedy hand down his chest "Of course I ahtly scratching his sto smile tilted up one half of his perfectto fk you so hard it’ll look like your legs were put on backwards"

I laughed, playfully shoving hihly, pressing his tongue intoat my lips "Come on, Chlo I think we both know I’ht is a success"

I ran e, and shivering when he bent and suckedthe feel of his hungry hands downundressto peel off his socks

I gave his zipper an i and pushed his dress pants and boxers down to the floor With his hands on my waist, Bennett backedhis hands onwinked in the diht of the bathroo another kiss to my belly button "I’m your safe place I’ve always been your safe place"

I slid ht I’d been my best and worst self with this man, and he only loved me more the more real I ith him No place was safer for me than with Bennett

He ue sweeping over ently at their peaks And then he rose to his feet as he kissed upover his brow, eyes dark and predatory

"How ed "Maybe aue dart out, licking rew serious "Are you happy we did this?"

Nodding, Ithat’s ever happened toup, he pressed both hands toa thu s rowled, and then shivered when I wrapped ue

Between us, he was so hard his whole body was tense, hands shaking at the sides of my face "Look at me"

I shivered, unable to break ht up between us

"Look at round out

I blinked up to hiainstas he sloithdrew his digit; I bit down so his skin dragged against my teeth

A calhtened and he si every part of my face as he swept the wet pad of his thumb back and forth across my bottom lip

"Married," he said quietly, as if only to himself