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She wriggled again, thought about that blissful feeling he gave her before all of this started It wasn’t fair to leave him without it She wasn’t afraid of pain Or rather, she didn’t believe in being afraid of pain

"You should start again," she said In truth, she was afraid, but that didn’t e

He looked unconvinced

"Now," Olivia elaborated "You can h, once he was gone, she felt eain, slow this tiet it over with Another part was entranced by the slow invasion It did so, and her back arching a little

"Better?" he asked, quietly, but she could hear the gruffness in his voice

She nodded

"Again?"

She acquiesced

He pushed in, slow and steady It wasn’t coh sense of friction was even rather pleasant, for soe reason

And there was a trace of anxiety in Quin’s eyes, pinching away soiving hiht I’ll probably--"

"Liar," he growled, biting back the smile in his eyes "I know this is hell for you, but Olivia, it is heaven forcould feel the way you do"

Braced on his forearms, he looked down at her, eyes heavy-lidded, sluladness of it fill her heart She arched her back, moved toward him It was an aard movement, but he understood

He threw his head back, eyes closed, and thrust forward fast and hard, once, twice, againJust when Olivia started to think that perhaps it wasn’t quite so horrible, Quin erous sound, and thrust into her a final tiiana like that, like a felled tree, he ood neas that because she had never taken to a lettuce diet, Quin felt exactly right falling on top of her In fact, Olivia tightened her ar between her legs seely and almost comfortable down there

It was so intimate He was part of her They were connected, two people, put together like a jigsaw puzzle that couldn’t be put asunder The thoughther head, feathering kisses along his cheekbone She wanted to share this ecstatic, perfect, hing, and the giggles bubbling up her chest woke him "Sorry, love," he said, voice dark with sleep, and shifted to the side "No place to wash," he ain He was out

Olivia tore a strip of her ruined chemise and cleaned herself up as well as she could There wasn’t veryFroushed out of her

But no

She reached for the second blanket, pulled it over the naked body of her first lover--her only lover--curled up against his side, and settled herself to sleep

Her body was throbbing and tingling in an unfamiliar way that ain about the blasted lady with her needle