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She shook, her body treh her

Dante lifted his head and kissed her hip, the space just beneath her belly button Her stohs, his hardness probing the soft, wet entrance to her body

He cursed and paused, reaching beside the up the condo a small packet that he tore open quickly He rolled the condorateful he hadn’t asked her to do it

Then he was back over her, pressing into her She felt a brief, searing pain as he pushed inside of her, her body stretching to accommodate him

He paused for a , his expression pained

She shook her head And he didn’t speak Instead, he thrust into her to the hilt, his body coht where she needed it, pleasure erasing the pain, slowly, but oh so perfectly

He retreated, thrusting ho a steady rhythain It was deeper this ti up the need from somewhere new It was shared desperation, shared need

Shewith hiether, the roo fuzzy, insubstantial

Hiscontrol, and hers began to shred, too Her grip on the world loosening When they fell, they fell together, raw sounds of co the room as they reached the peak

She held on to hi lost in it all Anchoring him to her

When his , slow breath and pressed his forehead against her chest She wrapped her arainst hers, skin to skin, every inch of hiainst every inch of her

She didn’t want to speak She didn’t want to move She didn’t want to face reality

But she knew that they would have to

But not yet

CHAPTER TEN

DANTE cursed himself To hell To any level of hell He’d heard every reference about his na and damnation that the media could possibly create, and this time, he found it appropriate