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What she had craved from a man was not really what she would call sex, but love She wanted to be held and caressed and touched and kissed by a s for her were beyond his physical needs

She submitted instantly to Stephen as first he just held her in his arether in the loft He did not rush at his love himself into her as Chet had Instead, he stroked her face, then kissed her lips, his sweet breath warentle, yet she felt they set her mouth on fire The flame elcome and warently, lovingly, about how beautiful she was, and how much he loved her It was the first ti love to her She alht that Stephen's words to her were as soft and gentle and true as she knew his love was for her, and hers for hiirl barely out of her teens, when she had read the Kairl ever so reat deal of talking during his love Stephen's words of love, which were like war her body, she understood

If Chet or even Ken Knowland had said Stephen's love words to her, Barbara would not have believed theht they were just a co to them, but were merely a means to an end that would satisfy the her

She knew Stephen h they had not been physically together before, and the years and war had kept the of her than that she was just what soht all along you are beautiful," Stephen said softly as he kissed the palht arht from the first moment I saw you, when you came to see Tim at the Acadeine the beauty of the rest of you But what I came to see very soon was, you're not only beautiful, you're a beautiful person Look how you've risked your life flying planes to help the RAF, and now the GIs And you've come all this way into a war zone to rescue a baby horse"