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d to hi her eyes, and he dispelled all her worries with a kiss to her lips, one that melted away all that ice and bleay the smoky cloak of fear in her body

“I’ll do everything for you, Anne,” he pro her neck; she swooned with a quiet,her breasts, down to her stoan to tug gently at her leggings with his teeth and hands slipped into her waistline Her hips lifted to help hith that Anne possessed, all of her firebrand independence, when he began to rain kisses across her supple thighs, grasping at her hips and worshiping upon her altar hispered words of desire, she ; about her father, about her future, about the estate; he htain with him there

“P… please, Lawrence, do… don’t stop, don’t ever stop,” she pleaded with quivering, breathy words Her body nude before hi with anyher spine or theto cascade from between her lips His kisses drew closer and closer to the most sensitive part of her, her folds flush and warhs, hotter and hotter and faster, until she felt hi up one side and down the other, devouring in worship her hot nectar and pleasing her flushed femme bead with skilled licks and laps as he watched her with those deep and entrancing eyes She began to cry out hungrily, loudly; her hips pressed out, wanting ue slip inside of her and feast upon her sweet depths, her eyes opened wide and she couldn’t stop herself frobird whistling over the ers wrapped between his hair and squeezed his scalp and she couldn’t even feel anything except how good it was; she couldn’t i except hi her feel like nothing in the entire world ever had

“M-Lawrence!” she ether, before those sweet swooning ain, wordless ue war her front wall, twirling at her pearly clit until she could scarcely take it any into her sto war could ever ged at his hair and ain as he pleasured her deftly and quickly and skillfully

As the waves of intense pleasure filled her, he crawled atop her body, covering her in sweet kisses from her stomach to her neck, and reality snapped back into place as she watched him closely; she wanted more, more, and she coaxed hiainst his body With that stormy, authoritative tone in his voice he silenced her protests, pressing his hips against hers

“Anne,” hebetween every word “I want… you, I want you like… this feeling, so intense, I can’t put it to words,” he ad her lips and down the side of her neck She grasped at his waistline, and he unlatched his belt, loosening his breeches and letting theth erupted fro her neck gently as he led his shaft softly against her sweet folds, ainst her, letting out growling, feral ently pressed it inside of her depths, inch by slow, throbbing inch; her eyes wide and her words lifted skyward Anne gasped and shrieked in pleasure, her nails digging deep into his back and begging for him to take her

“M-Lawrence, it f… feels so, d-divine,” she whispered, raking her nails along his back He obliged those silent pleadings, pressing harder, deeper, until she felt hi; her nerves screa the cabin in the stor her limbs; she shuddered beneath him, and she felt that same, clih her chest, her body tensing, her depths tightening around his length as she clasped tight around his whole body like a vise And yet when he continued to push, his shaft pressing in, and out, and in and out, she quaked like she never had; god, it was even better than she i in the entire world mattered at all except for their endless, powerful lust

“I’od, you’re unbelievable,” Lawrencerhythentle to take care of her sweet, virginal body She held on to hi heavenly He squeezed and kissed her deeply, his breath teasing her skin, growing faster and hotter with each deep, powerful thrust She felt herself building to a new, explosive cli she had felt ever before, her breaths deeper and faster as their bodies glistened with sweat, the heat of their love away the damp cool of the rain She couldn’t speak, she couldn’t do anything except think on how perfect this experience was; he, too, began to lose control, and she felt his thrusts grow ragged and wild and his hands shake as he grasped and squeezed her breasts and her hips and every part of her, with each of his touches onlyher hotter and hotter

The lightning crackled and flashed through the , electric-blue light raking across their skin as Lawrence thrust deep and hard, filling her to his hilt; he cried out her na his own as she felt her body fill with a powerful thru her to her very core as she reached her tingling, perfect clith inside of her explode with hot, pleasurable waves of his release pu feminine depths She held hiether, their breaths twining and their eyes looking into one another adoringly as this impeccable moment passed

She s; she only kissed his lips, over and over again, as he lay atop her, barely able to breathe

She began to ponder as they lay together, basking in their joined glow, if this could be what love felt like

“Lawrence…” she said, breathlessly He answered with a kiss, a co unlike any she’d ever had before She realized she had never wanted a gentleman; she had never wanted a boy She had wanted Lawrence

Chapter Eleven

“Don’t you think that passage is so absurd, though? That one, about the sun, and its envy for two lovers entwined in real love?”

Anne posed the idle question as she traipsed along leaf-dusted paths of dirt and grass cut across the Roxborough estate; the rain had died away as evening began to settle, and though their clothes were dripping and their horses had had quite enough of the rain and the wind, Lawrence and Anne decided that for her father’s piece of ht to leave the cabin for the eve and find the way back to thelost the innocent flower of wo quite so roht enough to scare away the clouds and welcoray skies And yet in spite of her joy, she noticed that her coun to fall in love with, rode alongside her with little to say It h of her own to share; she had held in her heart so hts, and now that she had found a spirit so close to her own, she felt confident in sharing them