29 MY LOVE JOHN I had resigned myself to thinking of her, and fantasizing. I held her image in the dark hours of the night. I’d thought nothing of wrapping my hand around myself and thinking of her to satisfy the need to be with her, but with her soft fingers around me, I began to wonder if I was going to lose my mind. I leaned forward, pressing my face into the curve of her neck, smelling her, tasting her skin. How I had wondered how she would taste. Now, I would get the pleasure of the flavor. I couldn’t contain myself and she knew it as she watched the pain upon my face. It was a fierce pleasure that wanted to take me away with it, but I wanted to ride it out as much as I wanted to ride her beneath me. Claudia blushed as my thoughts bounced around the corners of my mind. I felt enr

