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Cupping her face between his hands, he crowded into her, letting her feel every glorious sensation as their bodiesuntil she'd co the deep, slow rhyth his hips in a way that drove hiher inside her each time "Now tell me you love me"

Aurora was already unraveling, her legs tightly hugging Julian's flanks "Oh, Julian—I love you"

His entire body shuddered at her words, sweat breaking out on his forehead But he battled back his cliaze from hers "And I love you," he declared hoarsely "My heart is yours, soleil Always" He pushed into her, sealing his voith the exquisite utter possession of her body

A harsh cry escaped Aurora's lips, the pleasure too acute to bear "Oh, God … Julian" Her body clenched frantically around his

"Yes" He could barely speak "Just like that—yes" He drove into her again, then again, his urgency splintering his control into fragness

"Don't stop"

"I won't … I can't…"

"Julian…"

"Yes, soleil—" He thrust forward one last tiainst the vortex of sensation that was peaking inside hih them both

"Julian!" Aurora screa to her husband, she dissolved into wrenching spasent swelling of his body inside hers

With a feral shout Julian erupted, shuddering convulsively as he poured hi forward again and again until he'd given her all of himself

With a choked sound of awe, he collapsed, blanketing her with his weight, treh hied, wonder lacing his tone

As awed as he, Aurora caressed the bunched muscles of his shoulders, the damp planes of his back "You already have," she whispered "You've given me you Oh, Julian, I knew you felt as I did But I needed you to know it—and to say it"

"I know it to the depths ofit…" Julian rose up butto entwine the life-altering words around the ic they'd just made with their bodies

"I love you, Aurora Bencroft I have frorows cold"