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And when I kissed her again, it ith more emotion than I knehat to do with

I pushed the other strap of her dress over her shoulder, wanting her skin on led her arms out and pushed the dress down her ribs Every stroke of ink on her chest was brushed by ertips The feel of her metal barbells and the soft flesh between i pressed into the skin just above ainst it with every pus around my waist to twist us

I let her guideas she reached across her body and grabbed her dress, pulling it off, leaving her naked And then she braced herself on ly sloorking

Every time I disappeared into her, ainsther ass to lift and lower her

She clenched around ht and everything — and her body tensed as she squeezed rowl and a moan and the nerves in my body so raw and connected to herthat I vibrated like a tuning fork

My hands flexed, holding her against h us She curled into me, arms tucked into her chest and head under ht and mine

She was mine I was hers And that was it

My fingertips skated the length of her back while we cahed — a heavy, satisfied sound — I lay back, taking her with ether, wrapped up in each other, I found ht then and there that I’d do anything to hang on to that, hang on to her I cursedaway

Of course, as I slid my hand into her hair and kissed her, I realized I couldn’t have stayed away Penny and I felt inevitable that way I hadn’t stopped thinking of her any h I’d been hurt, I couldn’t i away We would have found a way back to each other

The alternative hurt too much to even think about — I’d have lostPenny, I knew I could spend a thousand nights like this and never get my fill

She stirred against my chest and kissed my collarbone I kissed her forehead in answer and whispered I’d be right back before cli out of bed to dart across the empty hallway to the bathroom And when I came back with a washcloth and a smile, it wassated and content and just as happy as I was

I crawled to her, kissing her bare hip before rolling her over onto her back to clean her up, and she watched ers and her lip between her teeth