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No softness.

Just a rise of her hips before she sat back down.

I slid all the way inside her.

My body quaking with the sensation.

I gripped her hips as she moved.

And it was her riding my thigh all over again.

Only this time… we knew what was at stake.

“Please…”

But this time it was my words and not hers.

“Nyssa.”

She closed her eyes, her body grinding against me.

Her lips parted. Her breath deep and slow.

She was my greatest strength.

And my greatest weakness.

All I could do…

Was hold on.

I did as she moaned and thrust against me. I held her as she opened her eyes.

When my own body trembled.

Obeying her every need.

She lifted her hands and arched her back.

I gripped them. Fingers sliding between hers.

“I love you.”

She opened her eyes.

Darkness.

Pain.

Truth.

“I know.” Was all she said.

And somehow…

Those two words hurt more than if she’d said nothing at all.

A tortured sound escaped me. I didn’t know if it was desire or agony. But I gave it to her. She gripped my hands harder. Her hips moving faster… harder.