Swiftcurrent Creek your heart [m]

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Her confident eagerness in the face of that which she did not understand inflamed Him; he at last pulled his lips from her own and preened her shoulder with uncharacteristic gentility, keeping their bodies settled close to one another as he moved inexorably toward her loins. Lecter's eyes cleared momentarily, enough to note and understand what Sos intended, and though his jaw tensed with sudden rage, he was at once both ashamed and aroused by the sight of Clarice's untouched body angled toward him, her unknowing want sweet within the eyes of his Lord.

But Sos soon roused Himself; He pressed toward one moon-gilded flank, dampening the fur there with smooth strokes. And all at once He was behind her, fangs leaving runnels through the fur of her hip; He murmured softly to her, but desire was fast breaking His control.