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2024-10-29 19:42:56“We have to go now to buy a crib for Helen but I don’t want to leave you in a state of wanting either. Why don’t you lie on the bed for me?
Dazed by his mellifluous voice and that tantalizing instruction, Maya tugged her top back down over her bra. “What—what for?”
“Lara…do you really need to ask?”
Eyeing him seductively, Lara found herself doing as he’d asked her—just as if her body made its own decisions without even consulting her mind. Her very ribs aching with the tension that was building inside her, she forced herself to try and relax even as the room was bathed in a soft, intimate glow.
Chris slipped off her shoes—and even the touch of his hands at her bare ankles sent hot darts of torrid pleasure bolting almost violently through her. Then, crouching down by the bed in front of her, he eased her long legs towards him. In another fluid, commanding motion he moved upwards to un
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