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"I don’t know…Ithis too"

"You would keepit to you for ht I’ you well for this"

"You don’t have to do that" His lips grazed her left calf, and she snant froht stand, she could’ve done a lot worse than hih of your skin," he whispered One hand stroked up the back of her leg and squeezed her cheek through her panties His ression, and she shivered He licked a wet trail up her inner thigh, and she wriggled her legs apart

The breath froainst her skin "No"

"Please?"

"After we make sure you’re okay for a few days, I’ll let you have it I’ll lick it and suck on it until you co his hand to roaers caressing the soft, freshly healed lines

"Are you trying to kill me?"

"I’ll slide in slow,it out even slower than I put it in I won’t go faster no "

"I hate you so much," she ht a visceral reaction Her puy squeezed in helpless need He gathered her hair in his hand, arranging it on her back, then buried his face in it and breathed, his chest expanding next to her His fingers slid along her bare arm crooked over the pillow

"I want it asmuch"

She didn’t kno that was possible He wasn’t OD’ing on preggo hor out beside her She turned her head to face hiht from the TV flicker over his face, in the depths of his eyes In the dark she hlighted so in those eyes, an ache it pained her to observe He continued stroking her hair, her face The muscles of his throat constricted as he sed

There was little doubt in herto say, and whatever it was, it was troubling him She wanted to know She needed to know But before she asked, she sent up a fervent prayer it didn’t ruin this "Ian What is it?"