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Yes Now

This was the farside to the second mark she could offer, the way the mind could express emotions far more vividly than vocal cords His cock responded with an iainst her As she bathed herself in his flood of need, possession and hunger, she ed it with her own It can be a curse, Dev, but it can also be this

The dew-kissed petals of the rose are said to be red from the blood drawn by its thorns

Warrior poet As she pulled hientleness a different devastation from the previous tie She let out a guttural cry as he worked his way in, laying a path of caresses along her throat with his mouth, then down to her sternuan to tease the nipples, suckling her, ree softened her muscles

She arched with a moan and he expertly used the undulation to slide all the way in Her body clenched down on hi hi she had no patience to wait for hi the ainst the heavy rock he’d been sitting upon, using it to add force to his thrusts as she locked her legs over his bare buttocks When her fingers dug into his shoulders, those self-inflicted scars of grief on his chest were a sweet friction as heIncredibly, his size increased, pushing into pain,release ruthless, inevitable

While her body prepared itself, her clit hardening, her vision narrowed to his rugged, handso at Ayer’s Rock, that incredible sandstonemysteriously out of the Western desert Only ten percent of its actual face showed, so much of what it was still below the surface But on that face, time had sculpted its map, its beauty in itsof the universe lay in it She’d been in the city so long, she’d alotten that the Outback offered that Until she looked up in his face and saw it there

“Coed She pierced hiers he could sate

As she clamped down on hiht herher, he tilted his head, averting his chin He offered to her, even as she had the need

God, he would be a perfect full servant

The astounding thought pushed her over the pinnacle,her screas

His blood and seed filled her at once, an ecstasy she couldn’t deny herself

Even as she knew she’d be left only wanting more

8

WHEN she woke, it was midday Uneasiness had roused her at the unexpected tis She saw he’d left her so on which she’d fallen asleep at dawn, curled comfortably across his body Her body was apparently still rejuvenating, because she hadn’t felt him slide out from beneath her He’d left her clothes in easy reach

Because she was disoriented, for an instant she forgot about the second mark, instead immersed in a painful ripple of betrayal, which was followed closely by anger

Idiot Find hi out with her senses, she did locate hi She tried to sound calm, relaxed Dev? Haven’t run off and left me, have you?

A sense of a start, a grunt Christ, that takes soht behind me in the middle of a piss

That isn’t what I interrupted, was it? She pressed her lips against a s her relief at his relaxed tone, then wondered why she was restraining herself when there was no one to see

No, but would have served you right if you’d interrupted so worse I found us some transportation I couldn’t fix the bike, but I used a couple of its parts to get this dinosaur running Another grunt, a h his mind, she picked up that he’d found an old ute, one that had apparently bogged in as now a claypan The owners hadn’t yet returned to clairoup of aborigines and they’d figured it was easier to move on without it, but it was odd, the a partially full petrol and water tanks wired into the bed He was digging a giant hole in front of it

The second ive her soh not as deeply as the third mark He’d very nearly worn himself out in the hundred-plus heat, so it seemed to her

What are you doing? Are you drinking enough water?

His patronizing chuckle rankled her, though it didn’t dispel her curiosity Don’t worry aboutthis after dark, instead of when the Devil’s out trying to cookboss who has places to be

“Doesn’t dothat big hole?” Tire anchor Winch didn’t work on its own Sand was too soft You have to bury the spare tire about five feet down, then attach the winch line That should pull it out where the ground anchor couldn’t, if I can jack up the back wheels enough to get enough rough stuff beneath them She heard another inventive curse Don’t knohy the owners didn’t try it theain, we’re on the edges of your territory, love