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She tried to say another word besides, “Oh,” but she couldn’t. She just said that in a very breathy, very affected voice.

And he made a shallow thrust against her, pushing deeper.

Her eyes rolled back in her head. Now, she could not even say, ‘oh.’ It was simply too good.

It had not been like this with the colonel. The colonel’s member had felt… nice. Well, the truth was it would hit little spots here and there that were pleasurable, and the first time he’d been inside her, it had been a bit overwhelming, butthiswas rubbing her in some sort of way that seemed to nudge against her in a way that tugged on the center of her pleasure and stroked, a sort of bothersome pleasantness, against some internal part of her that seemed connected to that external part of her, and he’d beenather for so long before this that she was very sensitive and sort of swollen down there, anyway, and this… this…

Oh.

“Lizzy?” he said. “You aren’t in pain.”

She found another word. “More,” she managed.

“More?” he said.

“Please.” Another word still.

He grunted again and he thrust another time, but this wasn’t shallow at all, this pushed him all the way into her, dragging all of his lovely thickness against her, and she let out a noise that might have been a sob, but it was a verygoodsob.

“Oh, please,” she said again.

“I…”

She opened her eyes to find him looking into her eyes.

“Good?” he breathed. He was starting to move within her.

“So good,” she moaned. “Do you… like it?”

He just laughed helplessly. “I am going to spend.”

“No,” she said. “No, wait for me, please.”

He made another helpless noise.

“Besides,” she gasped. “If you get me with child, you have to marry me.”

“True,” he said, and now he was finding a frankly delicious rhythm that was nudging her in the direction of the heights of some ecstasy. “But I want to marry you, Lizzy. So, maybe I want to get you with child.”

She shuddered, his saying that sending a ripple through her that made her practically crest.

He grunted again. “If you squeeze me like that again—”

“Please,” she said again. “Please, Fitz, I am ever so close.”

He shut his eyes, moving against her, and she hit another height, a height like the top of the sky, like the place where the stars fade to clouds, and she rippled again, rippled around him, against him, against all the places the thick sweetness of him was stimulating her, and when she climaxed, it was like nothing she’d ever felt before.

He collapsed against her as she clutched him and their lips tangled together.

There was no noise besides the sounds of their labored breath for a moment.

Had they… at the same time?

She undulated against him, feeling connected to him, happy, safe, fortunate.

“I shall have you with child in no time at all, I think,” he said in her ear.

CHAPTER TWENTY