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In that gaze Jack saw everything he'd ever drea tenderness unfolded within hi warmth He'd loved this woman for more than half his life, but never had he loved her as ht now

She grabbed his buttocks in shaking, desperate fingers "Now, Jack," she said urgently "Now"

Need coursed through his body at her passionate plea With a bitten-off groan, he thrust into the welcohtness of her body

"Yes, Jack Yes "

He plunged deep within her, then withdrew She quivered, staring up at his wrapped around his body Slowly, so slowly, he entered her again

She thrust up to ernails raked his sweat-dampened back, her head lolled into the pile of pillows

He ain to the point of release, then slowly drawing away She clung to hiible words of passion and love Her legs locked behind hiainst his buttocks

He kissed her ainst her until they were both desperate and aching

"Oh, God, Jack," shebeneath him "Now"

He squeezed his eyes shut and plunged inside her, deep and hard She gasped, planting her legs and thrusting up to meet him

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He felt it first as a whoosh of breath across his cheek Then he felt the pulsations rippling inside her The last shred of Jack's restraint snapped He pressed his fists into the tired cotton sheets and arched his back, driving into her body

Bolt after bolt of white-hot pleasure erupted through his body Afterward he rolled onto his back and slid his arside hihs

Tess floated slowly back to earth And hit with a bang

She had about fifteen seconds of blissful oblivion, then reality drifted back into her consciousness, and try as she e it Not even for a moment