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Everyone needs the basics, Brynne Food, water…a bed

She provoked eht she strolled into the Andersen Gallery talking bollocks about ed the toay frolorious nakedness in fluffy cream cotton A damn shame She walked into the bedroo I loved the sounds of her in there,for bed I pulled a towel down for rateful I would sleep with her in ht

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I opened my eyes in the dark to the scent of Brynne up ured out where ere She’s in your bed with you I was careful to be still so as not to disturb her sleeping She faced me, but her head was turned down and curled around her arm I just watched her breathe for a few minutes, entranced and content for the first tiirl but I let her sleep By God she needed it

Need So much need inside me now Needs only Brynne could satisfy, and that scaredthis way about any wo her in ed me forever I feared

I inhaled deeply and held it The faint smell of sex was in the sheets from earlier but mostly it was just her clean, flowery scent that intoxicated me It intoxicated ht we ood I hated to leave her alone in the bed but I got up carefully and threw on soreat roo the bedroom door open a crack in case Brynne ith a bad dream I really needed a smoke and I really needed to talk to her dad

"Tom Bennett" His clipped American accent on the other end of my mobile reh I must admit I loved that she considered London her ho

A beat of silence and then rushed questions "Is Brynne safe? What’s happened? Where is she?"

"Nothing’s happened, Toain

"You’re with her? Wait Is she at your place right now?" The silence grew very thick and o with his daughter "So you two have worked it out Look, I’m sorry about that call I made--"

"You’re sorry?" I interrupted him "And yes, Brynne is with me at the moment and I plan to keep her very close, To up a new one until after this conversation was done "Just so you know, I’ with her either You set this whole thing up I’irl Can’t help that now, can we?"

Toive hi but maybe he still had it in him "Look, Ethan…I only want her safe Brynne ards to who she wants to date I just want those bastards to keep away fro her of all the bad shit You have no idea how she’s suffered It nearly destroyed her"