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I like it this way She moans into ing up my arm and into my heart

Her hips buck harder, and I start to move in rhythm with her bounces My head falls back as I squeeze her hips and urge her to keep going Each wet crash of our bodies e

“I’ain My hand falls away so she can choke out her ain “Don’t stop Don’t ever stop”

I’m close, too, but I can’t even find the words for it It starts as a ruhinside her

“Marcello!” she whimpers once more

“Harper…” I murmur back

One

Two

Three ether in a sweaty tangle of limbs

We lie there for a while Who the fuck kno long?

Until, eventually, Harper pulls herself offa bra, but everything else about her is smooth naked skin Her hair is a sex-crazed mess

She’s never looked better

But her eyes—there’s a stor there

She looks everywhere but at me And then finally, she does look down at me

There are no words The look in her eyes is deadly, and it seems to last forever

A sigh leaves her ain as her cheeks flush with embarrassment over what just happened

“Harper,” I mutter as I lean up on my elbows

She cringes “I hate it when you say my name like that”

“Like what?”

“Like itme a look

I frown “What does that mean?”

I stand and grabsilently I don’t look down at her again until I’m fully dressed

“What was this?” she asks

It’s a strange question, but I knohat she really means What does it mean to have sex with a man you’re supposed to hate?

And I don’t have a single fucking clue how to answer that

But I know, deep down, that she isn’t just irl I plucked off an auction to have my ith

Over time, she’s become so much more than that