Wishing to allay her fears, he leaned forward to kiss her shoulder delicately, his eyes closed as hips brushed the skin. Though they had both had lovers before this, those felt like a need simply satisfied, lacking the emotional connection this promised to yield. She reminded him of a fawn, beautiful and lean, but still easily frightened. Trailing kisses along her collar bone, he lowered her against the soft sheets of her bed and spent the next few minutes after their descent, charting her flesh like an explorer in a new land.
Melia was gasping. Her entire body was caught in a wave of fire as she felt his insistent mouth doing things to her while his hand kneaded her flesh with aching caresses. She tore at his remaining clothes in a mad frenzy, desperate to feel every part of him as fierc
