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silk pooled at her feet and she looked like one of those Renaissance paintings of Venus on the half shell.
    The sight was enough to raise a man from the dead, and he wasn’t dead.
    All thoughts of poor Allegra, fragile Allegra, fled from his head. This wasn’t a fragile woman, this was his woman. Strong, not weak. She’d been through a lot, true, but here she was and she wasn’t going to break.
    It took a lot of effort but Kowalski did not toss his wife onto the bed then jump her like a crazed wolverine in rut. Not not not. He placed her there, gently, though his hands shook. He stood by the bed, looking at her, naked on the emerald green comforter, the colors so vivid—her flushed skin, dark red hair, emerald pendant, red lips, green eyes.
    He closed his own eyes for a second, just a second, breathing in the moment, trying to clamp down on the now-ferocious desire he felt. In a moment his clothes were gone—luckily he mostly went commando—and he moved onto her, feeling for the first time in four months his wife’s beautiful body beneath him.
    He gave a grunt of satisfaction. Yes, this was where he belonged.
    Lifting himself on his forearms, he smiled down at her. “This is already great and we haven’t even begun.”
    She lifted her hips against him and smiled when she felt his response. He hadn’t thought he could get any harder but yup. He could.
    “It’ll feel even better once we’ve started,” she pointed out.
    Kowalski lowered his head and kissed the side of her neck, right where he knew she liked it. She sighed, tilting her head to give him better access. “I don’t need a lot of foreplay, Douglas,” she whispered, her breath hot against his ear. It raised goosebumps. Instead of answering, he ran his hand down over her side, thumb brushing her nipples. They turned instantly hard. Down over her tiny waist, across her flat belly, lifting slightly so he could touch her there, between her thighs.
    She was ready, tissues wet and swollen, as if they’d already made love once. He touched her carefully—his hands were callused— running a finger around her opening, feeling her soft and slick. He penetrated and Allegra clenched around his finger, sighing into his ear, clenching again. Her stomach muscles pulled every time her vagina clenched.
    “Now, Douglas,” she whispered.
    Yeah, now. He couldn’t wait a second longer. He positioned himself at her entrance and pressed forward slowly. Control was ebbing away from him with every passing second. Soon he wouldn’t be able to control his movements. At least he could try to go slow at the very beginning.
    Ahhh…it was like entering wet silk. Her tissues closed around him tightly, as did her arms and her legs. He was surrounded by soft warm welcoming woman. His woman. He slid into her as far as he could go and was about ready to pull back to enter her again when she tightened around him fiercely. Around his dick, arms around his chest, legs lifted, ankles crossed over his lower back. She hugged him so tightly it was as if her entire body was saying stop.
    He stopped.
    Kissed her cheek, kissed her ear. Felt her tremble, inside and out. Moved into her just a little more deeply and wham! She started coming. Moving against him, impaling herself on him, moving as if she were in a storm and he was her only anchor. She was panting, writhing, moaning. Arms and legs tightly wound around him, clenching around him over and over again.
    It was absolutely impossible to resist. A red hot streak raced down his spine and he erupted inside her just as her orgasm was coming to an end. She gave a startled moan and starting coming again just as the top of his head came off. Her juices and his made it easy to move inside her and he began thrusting heavily, the big ornate wrought iron bedstead beating a fast tattoo against the stucco wall.
    Oh man, oh man, this was so intense it couldn’t last and it didn’t. Just as he started seeing stars behind his eyes he came again. This