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‘I don’t want to sleep I want to make you happy’

‘Don’t look so agonised, Sam This requires trust and we are neither of us very adept at that Here, close your eyes again The fate of the world does not hinge on anything that happens or doesn’t happen tonight’

She placed her hand on his where it lay on the bed beside her

‘I want to trust you’

‘Then close your eyes and trust h to knoill stop the moment you tell me to I’ve never liedto you, Sam’

Her eyes flickered at the strange hesitation in his voice, but whatever was beneath it, she kneas true She trusted Edge As e Then she let her eyelids sink and settle, her hand just resting against his hip as he settled beside her again

‘Good,’ he murmured ‘Now breathe’

She breathed

‘In and out’

She breathed in and out His lips were brushing her hair, his hand resting lightly on her lower abdo sprinkles of sensation down her leg and up to her breasts Her body happily took back the cla rhythh she trusted hiainst hith and heat

When his fingers slipped between the curls and glided along the silky centre she still wasn’t prepared for the shiver of pleasure that swept through her as they found the sensitised nub waiting for him, but she pushed back at the fear that this, too, was a trap

This was Edge and, whatever else, she trusted him

She concentrated on the sensation of his lipsnot to think about what he was doing down there, but her body was splitting froers and the tension they were building Then he lowered his head, his lips brushing the swell of her breast Her shoulders hunched in ah her He echoed it and that sound, between delight and abandonment, melted another layer of fear She didn’t care anycloser, ainst his marvellous, beautiful hands