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"Oh, Caroline, I'llyou such joy I proasped as he began to penetrate her

He took her slowly, giving her body tith It was so difficult to hold back when every fiber of his being ached to pound into her, branding her as his own So very primitive had been awakened inside him, and he didn't just want toher such pleasure that she couldn't even drea to entle touch She wasn't ready for the ferocity of his desire She wouldn't understand it And he cared toorevelation, and his entire body froze

"Blake?"

He'd known he liked her, he'd known he desired her But it had taken this moment of intimacy to realize that his eht that he'd lost the power to feel anything deeply, had been touched by this wo?"

"No," he said, a touch of wonder in his voice "No As a ht actually be just right"

A hint of a sraced her lips "What do you ical feeling ht disappear if he examined it too closely "But for now…"

He pushed forward Caroline gasped

"Did I hurt you?" he asked

"No It's just that--I feel so, well, full sohter "I'm not even halfway there," he said with an amused smile

Her mouth fell open "You're not?"

"Not yet," he said sole exquisite friction to theulped "Only closer? Not all the way there?"

He smiled slowly and shook his head "Of course if I did this"--he gave his hips a tiny thrust--"I'd be alin?" he completed for her "Technically, I suppose, yes, but as far as I'm concerned, you're mine"

Caroline sed and blinked back tears, barely able to contain her e what a simple sentence could do to her You're mine Oh, how she wanted that to be true Forever

"Make me yours," she whispered "In every way"

She could see in his face how ht air was chilly, but Blake's broas beaded with sweat, and the muscular cords of his throat stood out prominently

"I don't want to hurt you," he said, his voice straining against itself

"You won't"

And then, as if the last bit of his reserve had been used up, he let out a hoarse cry and plunged forward, sheathing hiasped "Caroline"