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Like the tapping, at first, he didn’t knohere it had coainst his neck…

Fire flashed through hi, suckling sound

"Gema, what… ?"

"You did offer an to fade He heard her… drinking, suckling, all in a frenzy, and it didn’t matter He was distant, cold, nu sexual gratification…

Slurp

Lord, Lord, yes…

"That’s it!"

The sound of a new voice in his bedroo didn’t really hear it

He didn’t even knohen Gema renched from her place atop him

"No!" Gema cried to the newcomer "No… I need… I need…"

"You’ll never survive!" she was told harshly

The lass s behind her angrily threw her clothing toward her

"You didn’t listen to a thing I’ve said I don’t want any more dead yet--what the hell is the matter with you?"

"I don’t need you!" Ge her across the face with a force that was staggering Geainst the closet door The noise was like thunder

Doug, however, didn’t notice or ht

Theslipped down the wall to fall to her knees He caught her by her hair, forcing her to look up at hiiveth, and the lord taketh And I ah I don’t want this one dead--yet"

"You kill!" she cried

"I aed harder on her hair, forcing her to her feet

She becaet what I say Now, out!"

She looked at Doug one last time His member was flaccid then His boxers were still wrapped around his feet

His head was slightly twisted to the side She could see the irritation at his neck, but there wasn’t a drop of blood wasted So inside her burned He wasn’t used up There was more, an to laugh, wondering just what he would remember when he woke up and found himself in that ridiculous position

Grant and Stephanie decided to drive out to the dig for the afternoon

They both had slept late

Stephanie awoke to find that Grant was lying quietly at her side, watching her He looked worn, and she wanted to reach out, caress his face, and so hiet what they had witnessed the night before

Or if it went deeper

Despite the fact that they’d been as intie to hold back so of herself She didn’t understand hiued so fiercely and she had left him, she was afraid for herself She loved him far too much Needed him And she couldn’t allow that, not when the love she felt was filled with so hts," Grant murmured

"I’," she told him She realized that they were both still fully clad, other than the fact that they were shoeless "How about your thoughts?" Stephanie asked He was going to talk about last night, she was certain

But he didn’t He touched her cheek with his thu that you were the ently And his gaze was very serious and so that you are the world, everything good in it, light and laughter and sanity and caring… you know that I love you, Stephanie"

She shook her head, withdrawing slightly "Grant--"

"Don’t go panicking on"I’ll settle for you lettingto hit the shower"

He left her

Did he really love her so deeply?

It couldn’t be with a greater force than what she felt for hier to make some kind of amends As she stepped from the foot of the bed to the carpet, she frowned

He had left a little trail of sand on his walk to the bathroom Where the hell had that come from, she wondered

The beach, she told herself

He e after attending the wake But he’d had his shoes on then, and they had stuck to the paths

She shrugged Didn’tevery day, keeping the cottages just beautiful

She walked to the bathroom, then hesitated He had the door closed She could hear the shower running