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“Corowled “Kneel over me”

She’d wanted to be daring; she’d wanted to take risks but this was terrifying “I’m not sure—”

“I aht was not enough”

Heat rushed through her, heat and need and fear that perhaps this was all a dreaone

And then his ue found her between the slick folds, and she cried out as he stroked her and sucked on her, drawing the sensitive nub between his lips and then his teeth, tugging and licking until she felt as if she’d explode out of her skin

He slipped a finger inside her, finding ht the intense waves of pressure and pleasure building She screah her,her body writhe and bend

He lifted her up and turned her around so that she lay in the sand, and he stretched out over her She stared up at him, so dazed she could barely focus

“You liked that,” heher hair back from her face

“You could say that,” she whispered, reaching up to tug on his shirt “But I’ht That was heaven Please take this off Your shorts, too”

“We have to be careful,” he said “I wasn’t careful enough last night I didn’t pull out fast enough”

She struggled to follohat he was saying and then she understood Careful as in careful not to get her pregnant Careful as in birth control “Oh Right Sht of any of that?

But then, there was no ti over her, handsome and naked and beautiful She’d never ain and lowering himself to cover her before he entered her, his thick shaft stretching her and filling her so that her breath caught and she had to relax to accommodate him

But then when he began to move, slowly, the uncoood pressure as he found the spot inside her that liked being touched “Again,” she said, lifting her hips “Do that again and again”

He laughed softly against her neck “My pleasure”

And then she didn’t want to talk any so much heat and sensation and emotion

With hiether with hi was perfect

The days passed, one after another The sun shone brightly every day, long hot days that only cooled in the late afternoon as the wind blew They spent uilty that she wasn’t working very much, but he knew that it was just a matter of ti would change Maybe that hy he couldn’t get enough of Josephine, craving her body and warh because she felt like sunshine and life—so open and war strange pain and pressure in his chest He feared what he didn’t know, and yet it only served to make the present evento lose her, either She was his She belonged with him He knew that much

“My father should be back very soon now,” she said, curling up against hihtly caressing his skin He loved the way she touched hiht in his arms, in his bed “Just three days, and when he returns, he will knoho to contact,” she added, “and what to do”

The news should please him Obviously, he knew they could not remain like this forever But he dreaded reality, unable to fathom the future or the truth of it all when he was so removed from it here with her

She iving hi smiles, which never failed to put an ache in his chest “My father will like you Very much”

He couldn’t answer her smile, not when there was so much heaviness within him “There is a whole world out there that we don’t know”

“But ill discover it together, yes?”

He kissed her brow and then the tip of her sht nose and then, finally, the lushness of her lips Almost i hot cravings He pulled her closer, wanting to lose hie of the unknown The unknoasn’t his friend But she was Here on Khronos, she was his world She was his everything

“I love you,” she whispered, as he entered her, thrusting deep

He didn’t say it back, but then, he didn’t think she expected him to

Later that night, he woke up and glanced toward the s, looking to see if it was light But there wasn’t a wall of here he expected glass to be The as on a different side of the roorid in the middle

He frowned This wasn’t his room This wasn’t his home

He swung his legs out of bed The ground was very close It jarred his knees His bare feet arched against the roughly cobbled floor Why was he here? He didn’t belong here He lived sorand He lived somewhere

His throat worked He sed as the past returned, colliding with the present, because he knew

He knew his name Alexander

He kneho he was He knehat he was