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"She sighed and put the glass under the lahtstand I sat beside her and then took her in my arms I kissed her lips and felt the iainst me I squeezed her breasts so desperately it was a wonder I didn't hurt her God, this is Heaven; you're in the wrong place I slippedand touched her silk panties and the heat behind them

" 'Pull'm down, tear'm off,' she said in' She was crying I could hear it

"I kissed her on the ue shot between my lips Oh, Lord, God I kissed her plenty, and I ripped her panties over her ankles and off her spike-heel shoes, and I cradled her foot in my hand and kissed her instep

"Under her breath she cried I gobbled her wet tears

" 'Lord, it's wrong,' she whispered 'I know it's so wrong You, my baby Tarquin, but I need it so bad!¡¯

" 'So do I, lady,' I said 'You can't iine!' "

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"IT WAS e call thelike that All of Blackwood Manor slept I slept Big Raue sense of a conversation with Rebecca We were on the lawn, in the antique wicker chairs fro to me that all the old wicker had been hers, that Manfred had bought it for her

"She was so happy that I'd taken it down and had it restored, that Pops had painted it white How handsome it was

" 'You are my world, Tarquin,' she said

"But that was only part of what she tried to tell s Iwith her

"How thin and indistinct was all this I woke and stared in front of ain and I was talking to her

"Suddenly, I renched up out of the bed and dragged across the floor!

"I was fully awake in an instant