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"Like is not the word, chérie," he whispered against her lips

"We can’t ever tell hisley s softly she started to asernails into his chest, hardharderthey broke the skin and kept breaking Kingsley was brutally hard again inside her and when she caain inside her, Elle woke up

She lay on her stomach on her bed at the abbey Her hips pushed down and into the bed and her vagina clenched eroaned into her pillow, rolled onto her back and stared up at the ceiling

Another dreaoddamn mind here

Elle crawled out of her bed and pulled on her black silk pajama pants and camisole, and a black sweater She shoved her feet into shoes, and she left her roohtSøren, she still feared the front door that led to the outside world Instead, she went out the back door into the garden and found a path to follow It was brisk out on this spring night, and the air cooled her skin

At the center of the garden stood a statue of the Virgin Mary, solid white stone and life-size, her belly rounded with the unborn Christ inside her A full ht to see Mary’s face She looked so peaceful, so calirl who got pregnant by God would be that relaxed about the situation

"Can I tell you a secret?" Kyrie asked fro me?"

"Yes But only because I couldn’t sleep That’sout onto the garden

"It’s okay I don’t mind the company What’s your secret?"

"When I elve, I had the biggest crush on the Virgin Mary Is that weird?"

Elle turned and found Kyrie standing in her white bathrobe and white veil behind her

"Not really She’s beautiful At least in all the paintings and statues she is"

"I like that she subht that was sexy what she said to God when He told her she would get pregnant with His child--‘Behold the hand to Your word’"

Let it be done unto me Elle had said similar words so many times in her life to Søren I am yours, do what you want to do with me Whatever you ith my body, you can do it

"When I was fourteen, I wanted her life," Kyrie said "I like to think Mary was a lesbian I mean, it’s the perfect situation for a closeted lesbian"

Elle laughed "It is?"

"Well, of course She can’t coht is by getting h the Holy Spirit And then she’s a perpetual virgin Never has to have sex with her husband and yet he protects her and provides for her"

"Sounds like you," Elle said