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didn’t want just a bride, but a partnership… If it wasn’t so impossible, if it wasn’t so unfeasible, she could almost believe that he…
    â€œI love you, Alisa.” His words were like a welcome kiss, a warm blanket engulfing her as she fled from a storm. “I love you because you are you, because you would give everything you have to make other’s lives better, because you make me laugh and you make me see sense…“
    She looked up at him. “I can’t.”
    When he closed his eyes in regret, Benito missed out on her tiny smile. “As you know, I don’t care much for duty and for what’s expected, so I hope you’ll understand when I say I can’t possibly go to the guest room now!”
    He loved her.
    Hands that were still shaking, but for entirely different reasons now, worked their way to his beautiful, haughty face. The sexual energy she had found almost impossible to summon earlier flowed through her veins readily, making loving him so much easier when it was all that was wanted.
    â€œIt is not the right thing…” He closed his eyes as she rained butterfly kisses on his face. She heard his low growl of frustration as he struggled to resist. “As my future wife you should stay in the guest room…”
    Who was this woman? Alisa wondered as her fingers slid beneath his top to the taut planes of his chest. Who was this daring, wanton being, who had Prince Benito pleading for mercy? Rather than dutifully leaving, she insisted they arrive.
    â€œCan’t a princess like it, too?”
    â€œYou’re going to love it.” He halted her amazing progress with demands of his own. His throaty promise leaving her trembling, the skimpy towel a white puddle on the floor as he sank to his knees and repeated his proposal this time. Then, with every stroke of his tongue, every measured touch of his hands ensuring that this time when gently he slid just a little inside her, Alisa was not only willing but pleadingly ready, his caution unnecessary but delicious.
    â€œI’ve missed you.” With a deeper thrust, he entered her body and her soul felt healed. “All my life I have missed you.”
    â€œI’ve missed you, too…” She had missed, without ever knowing, the importance of being important in another’s life.
    With every tender thrust he completed her. The heady balms of their orgasm shared but somehow private.
    Both entering home for the first time.

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