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And when he touched her, it was ic

Did there have to be more than that?

Later, they floated in the silky dark water with the ht and full above thees and took her mouth with that same restrained ferocity that ht They were both naked and sleek in the night, the water only a degree or two cooler than the eht all around the her gasp

This time, he wasn’t slow He took her hard and deep, with a possessiveness and dark need, and she reveled in it His arth of him a deep and wondrous fire within her

He laughed when she raceful as a dancer in the water and beneath the erousht peak he teased with his lips and his teeth and his tongue to the place where they were joined, where he filled her again and again and tore her apart with every sweet, sure thrust

“I can’t” she gritted out

“My naently on her nipple, and she shuddered around hi her taut “Say it, Cleo Scream it if you must”

And she couldn’t keep herself fro but obey him His name was like a cry, like a prayer, to the moon and the water and the oasis around them To the desert

To this man as her husband Whom she suspected she loved already and recklessly, far ht she’d loved al before her like a fierce god in the street

But when she ca, still so hot and hard inside her, and the look on his beautiful face was stark with passion His gray eyes gleah her

“Again, I think,” he said “I don’t believe that was quite loud enough The trees still stand, do they not?”

“I don’t like to scream,” she whispered

“You will,” he promised her, lust and aaze