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She trusts you, he told himself That’s the difference And the proof of her trust was just as sweet and precious to hi her call his name when she climaxed He swore in that instant she would never have cause to regret giving him her trustor her love He needed both ht possible

He allowed his hands to wander down to her breasts, cupping thehtened for hi his hands down to the swell of her hips

He loved her body She hid her co to be taken seriously in her job But they were there And they were enticing to hiain would he see her in clothes and not reone before He would always reasm had taken her by surprise It made him feel both powerful and curiously humbled

And until his dying day he would reed him not to stop He hadn’t wanted to—a pri, no matter what, to possess her body in that most basic way—but he would have triedif she hadn’t pleaded with him not to

She trusts you, he told hiain And she loves you

He stirred at the thought, swelling against her hip He knew she could feel it, too, because her hand slipped down and touched hi hian, but then he groaned when her fingers encircled him and squeezed “Keira”

“Let me,” she said “I want to”

He let her have her way for a ht her hand “Not yet,” he said “We still have to talk”

“About what?”

“About birth control Or rather, the birth control we didn’t use earlier”

“Oh”

“You wouldn’t by any chance be using anything, would you?”

“No” She shook her head, then thought for asoundlessly as if she wereThen she said, “But we should be okay I’m It’s not”