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Please stop? Please don’t stop? She didn’t knohat she begged for, only that she had to beg for it

John grasped her shorts and pulled them down and off her He ripped her shirt up and off her and her bra joined the rest of her clothes on the ground She needed skin, needed contact With terrified fingers, she unbuttoned John’s shirt and got it halfway down his arht her down onto hih the quiet forest around thes around his waist and her arms around his shoulders The bark on the tree cut into her naked back but she couldn’t feel it, couldn’t feel anything but him inside her

"Shh" John whispered in her ear "It’s all right I’ll ht"

"I’ve never--"

"I know," he said His fingers dug into her hips Why did this pain feel so good? So necessary? Like only this pain could banish the pain fro for "Let me hold you I’ll stop when you tell me to"

She buried her head into the crook of his neck and nodded She didn’t want him to stop but she didn’t knohat to do, how to proceed John knew, though He pulled her hips toward hiain, it felt as if soave way inside her and she opened up for him Her body wanted hi against hiht her down onceher on his cock all the way to the center of her stoue in her ry, violent, as were the thrusts that he slah of this part of hih of it

The heat of their joined bodies rose to a fever pitch She moved her mouth froainst the tree behind her she felt as if she would becorasped his broad ainst his burning chest He’d said he would stop if she told hione to stop now Ecstasy writhed and treina poured wetness over him, a mix of blood and desire Her muscles contracted into a knot and with a cry she couldn’t contain, she exploded around his still-thrusting length As she spash jerks of his pelvis, at last co rush

Finally it stopped Her heart rattled against her rib cage like a prisoner banging on the bars But John lowered her feet to the ground He pulled out slowly and she winced in fresh agony

"Daphne" he breathed as he kissed her stoue, kissed her neck and hs, he couldn’t stop touching her

"Stop, please" At last she got the words out As promised, he stopped He stepped away frohtened his clothes Before he buttoned his shirt again, she saw she’d left deep red scratches on his shoulders

In pain like she’d never felt before, she got onto her hands and knees and gathered her clothes

"Daphne, I--"