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“Please,” she begged, straining her hips toward his “Please”

He didn’t say anything, but she could hear his need in the roughness of his breath He , and she arched herself closer to meet him

She clutched at his shoulders, her fingers biting into his skin There was sory She needed him She needed this Now

“Gareth,” she gasped, desperately trying to press herself against him

He an to slide in

It hat she wanted, what she’d expected, but still, the first touch of him was a shock She stretched, she pulled, and there was even a little bit of pain, but still, it felt good, and it felt right, and she wanted more

“Hy…Hy…Hy…” he was saying, his breath co in harsh little bursts as heher more completely And then, finally, he was there, pressed so fully within her that his body met hers

“Oh asped, her head thrown back by the force of it all

Heher into insensibility She reached, she clawed, she grasped—anything to bring hi point

She knehere she was going this time

“Gareth!” she cried out, the noise captured by his mouth as he swooped in for a kiss

So and tensing until she was certain she’d shatter And then, just when she couldn’t possibly bear it for one second longer, it all reached its peak, and so and true

And as she arched, as her body threatened to shatter with the force of it, she felt Gareth grow frenzied and wild, and he buried his face in her neck as he let out a pri himself into her

For a minute, maybe two, all they could do was breathe And then, finally, Gareth rolled off of her, still holding her close as he settled onto his side

“Oh,she was feeling “Oh, my”