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Her walls faintly spasmed with the aftershocks that kept rolling.

Ecstasy a constant tide that crashed between us.

I edged back enough so I could brush back the locks of hair stuck to her cheeks.

Stared down at the one who meant everything.

Some part of me wanted to feel guilty, but my conscience was no match for this.

No match for that tender gaze or that gorgeous face or that perfect heart.

“How do you feel?” It was low and rough. As jagged as the thunder of my heart.

The gold flecks played in Elena’s eyes. “Alive.”

My lips tugged at one side. “And you’re my life.”

A tender smile weaved her face into brilliance. But that’s what she’d always been to me.

Brilliant.

Now she was mine.

“I like the sound of that,” she whispered.

“Yeah?”

“Oh yeah. Just like you’re mine. Together.” The last dipped in sincerity.

A pact.

One made up of the two of us.

Little jolts of electricity sparked through my body as I slowly pulled out, and I pushed up onto my knees all while dipping down to run my nose under her jaw and up to her ear. “Be right back. Don’t go anywhere.”

I slid off the bed.

A tease and desire flickered across her face. “You really think I’d go anywhere but this bed when I finally have you naked?”

I choked over a soft laugh, though I reached out and dragged my fingertips from the outside of her waist and down her thigh. “Think I like you that way, too, Little Apple.”

“You’d better because you’re going to see me like this a whole lot.”

“That a promise?”

“Oh yeah.”

My fucking heart fluttered.

Done for.

So fucking done for. Likely in the realest sense. But she was worth it. Any moment I got to spend with her.

I moved into the bathroom, rid myself of the condom, then grabbed a washcloth and ran it under warm water.

I sauntered back out to Elena still in the same spot. That fucking gorgeous body laid out. Her feet planted on the mattress and her knees set to an entrancing sway.

Pussy bare and swollen.