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She felt another clihtly less intense than the one that had come before Her nails scored his back Her mouth tore from his, and her teeth found his shoulder

Neither of them would leave this encounter unmarked

After a near silent onslaught of her body, he moaned, a soft, helpless sound She had heard it before And she knehat it meant

A word followed This time it wasn’t a curse word

It was her name, “Vicki”

Another, quieter, moan

And he came

He buried his face in her neck and unraveled in her arms

Vicki clung to Ty, holding hi his body decreased in frequency and intensity Until he was quiet and heavy in her arms Her hands did what they had been forbidden to do earlier They touched, and stroked, and learned Feeling the ser fingertips He was a feast for all the senses

He dozed, but not for long He was alert again withinarms

“No, wait…” she whispered

“Gotta get rid of the condo away from her without any reluctance at all

Her arracefully—despite the trousers still entangled around his ankles—slid froed his pants up, left them unbuttoned, and strode to the en suite bathrooh She pushed her tumbled hair from her eyes and covered her nudity with a cushion

She was cross-legged in theher midriff, when he walked out of the bathroom a couple of minutes later

It looked like he’d placed his entire head under the faucet His hair, face, and chest et, droplets of water clung to his long, spiky lashes

His eyes caught and held hers for a briefthe roo for He ed his shirt out froarment and fastened it a lot quicker than he had unbuttoned it

“I’ll see you in the ”

She didn’t knohat she had expected, but this…was really not it

At all