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She stared back at hi the words that had her heart beating in wonder, her soul filling ar, once e to hi inside her Slowly So slowly as shemore

"Look at me, baby," he whispered when her eyes would have closed to better savor the drea to wake up," she whispered tearfully "I’ll wake up and you’ll be gone again"

"Never…" His hips bunched, then a strangled screa tissue clasping hihtly

Okay, that didn’t feel like a dream

Well, it did, but not the sort of drea ecstasy searing her froht to accustoain

She fought to catch her breath as she felt hi against her cervix, sending electrified sensations whipping through her body, tightening her woh it had been years since he had touched her, taken her Since she had known the forceful dominance of his possession

"You’re so hot, baby," he growled, holding her head still as he sipped at her lips, stared into her eyes and began an intoxicating rhyth hi to feel hio" He sainst her lips as she lifted to him "Let me have you, baby Let me feel how hot and sweet your pussyhian to shudder with the pleasure, hard trean to shake with her need to cli her hard and steady, his cockher senses careening as she felt her body tighten in nearing explosion

"Watch an to move harder Faster "Let me see your eyes as you come, Courtney, keep theasped for breath beneath his kiss, shuddering, whiled scream as she jerked, exploded and felt her cunt melt around the steady, hard thrusts of his erection

His face tightened, his lips pulling back from his teeth in a snarl of pleasure as he sla in the throes of his own release as his seed began to spill inside her in hard, steady pulses

"I love you…" She cried against his lips, her ar from her eyes "Oh God, Ian, I love you…"

Weary, spent, Ian collapsed beside her as he pulled her into his ar it over the in the bed as Courtney rested beside him

She hadn’t woken yet, which ht I had lost you forever," she whispered against his chest, feeling his hands hed heavily

"You stole my heart, and I hadn’t even realized it" He kissed the top of her head gently "What happened with Melissa terrified ht I had hurt her, even though her father swore that wasn’t the case I spent the last week in Texas with his I hadn’t known about her Putting it to rest"

It wouldn’t have been easy for hi the past after all these years

"I wouldn’t have come to you if I hadn’t knohat I wanted, Ian" It hurt that he hadn’t trusted her love "If I hadn’t known my own heart and needs"

"It wasn’t you, Courtney It was ainst the pillow "Believe that if you never believe anything else It was uilt I had for my lifestyle and the excesses that are so much a part of me I always felt love would ease it, take the need from me It hadn’t with Melissa, and I always felt it had destroyed her And you…" His lips kicked in a grin "You reveled in them I had to realize myself what love was before I could realize how much I truly loved you If you hadn’t left, I wouldn’t have been forced tothat But…" His hands tangled in her hair again "Never again You won’t leave ive you in pay inside her heated, lit from within, and lived He loved her, just as she had known he would Just as she had known he should

And as Ian watched her, he watched the fragile glimmer of innocence that had lit her eyes when he entered the roolow to full, vivid life Love Pure, innocent, joyous love There were no shadows in her eyes, no pain, only acceptance and the sweet emotion he had missed so desperately in the past weeks For the first tied