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“Are we still strangers or can I call you Marietta?”

“I don’t know If we’re strangers then I can stay here in your ar about my future and my past, and—”

“You understand that I won’t be able to let you go now”

She smiled “I don’t see how you can possibly keep me I’m very expensive, you know, and you have no money”

“Soaze was shuttered from her, far away

“Max,” she whispered, “I’ to worry about you”

He laughed and kissed her, slowly, using his lips and tongue to et herself once h, hard again, and reached down to stroke the velvet strength of hiroaned into her mouth He had removed her blouse and now he cupped her breast with his palht of her, and then his other hand was between her thighs, stroking

the cleft that still felt swollen and replete from the last time

“Oh Max…”

He was looking at her and there was an expression in his dark eyes she didn’t understand Deter ht decision—an epiphany She reached to caress his wild curls tenderly, her mouth soft and dazed as she kissed his face She had never felt so happy, and she didn’t want it to end, and she certainly didn’t want to knohat Max was plotting

“Lie down,” he said and, supporting her, he lay her upon the sofa aels and cupids frolicked, and her fair hair was spread s down at her Then he re his shirt over his head

She caught her breath, reaching out to sainst the dusting of dark hair, exploring his hard stomach

He stood up and tugged off his footwear and his trousers And suddenly he was naked, big and gorgeous, loo over her As he pulled off the remnants of her trousers and tossed thes were really that short, and then it didn’t matter, because he was on top of her and inside her and all around her

She licked the skin on his shoulder, and then sucked at it He ducked his head and his ainst her neck He nuzzled her hair, breathing in the scent His body ainst her, steady, and she ran her hands over his buttocks, urging him

“Don’t you stop,” she said