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"We've only been traveling two hours," she announced "That gives us h time to rebuild the fire—several times, in fact"

Laughter ru to be insatiable, my beautiful bride?"

"Would you mind?"

"I'll adjust—soed her into th

e circle of his arms "Of course, we'll have to save our more inventive explorations for h to fully enjoy you—in every way" He kissed her hair, traced the delicate coluh to keep us occupied At least for the duration of our journey"

They arrived at Julian's Polperro manor in an utterly disheveled state—if the flustered expressions of the driver and footht were any indication Thankfully, the re servants were all abed, partly because the hour was late and partly because they'd been advised to make themselves scarce Thus, no one else witnessed the newly married couple's less than conventional entrance

Julian ushered Aurora straight to his bedcha promise that she could explore theher to his

Aurora was more than happy to delay her explorations indefinitely

Kicking off her slippers, she crawled onto the bed, eagerly awaiting their next foray into the exhilarating world of passion As if on cue, her body registered a protest, the disco, thea dissent Hell and da Julian cross over to the fireplace, stoke the flaht she refused to forego because of her own understandable but intolerable physical limitations

Julian turned, his gaze sweeping over her, probing, astute "Rest for a ht back"

Relieved for this opportunity to recoup her strength, Aurora co about until she found a comfortable position

She half-dozed Froister until she felt Julian undress her, swing her into his ar about, and realized with surprise that while she'd rested, he'd produced a large copper tub and filled it with pots of stea water

"In you go," Julianher into the bath

Aurora sighed with pleasure as the hot water washed over her, relaxing her cra the soreness between her thighs

"Better?" he asked