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pressing against her. He was naked now, his thick, rigid cock nudging against her wet pussy lips.
    “Alice, my Alice. God, I love you.”
     
    * * *
     
    Andy studied Alice’s face as he pressed forward into her hot center. She was silent, but staring up at him with an expression full of wonderment. She blinked rapidly as moisture formed in her eyes, and then she blushed deeply.
    “I love you too.” She swiped at a traitorous tear rolling down her cheek and tried to school her features.
    He knew she hated to cry, always had. Stoic Alice. But he wanted her to experience the release he felt she needed, even as he moved inside her. “It’s okay to cry, Alice. I want you to.”
    That was all it took. She smiled at him briefly and let the tears fall. Andy leaned down to kiss her cheeks. She accepted his soothing touch and opened her legs wider, wrapping them around his waist, urging him to continue. He pulled back and looked deep into her eyes before he increased the pace of his thrusts. The intimacy of the moment swept over him.
    She didn’t cry long, less than a minute in fact. She leaned into his hand as he wiped her tears away, smiling gratefully up at him. He knew a part of her would always be stuck in the past—the scared girl who’d just been adopted by an emotionally distant brother because their parents had died in a horrific car accident. He’d been there as she tried to cope while Rich wrote off her antics as normal teenage behavior. Andy had spent the last few years biding his time, waiting for the right moment when Alice wouldn’t reject him.
    It wasn’t that Andy wanted to fix her. He simply wanted all of her, the good and the bad. He wanted the smiles she managed to give freely, as well as her pain and tears. Body and soul, she would belong to him until the world stopped spinning.
    Andy moved his hands over her breasts, pinching her nipples until a line of distress appeared on her forehead. She arched her back, inviting his roughness. She seemed to crave it as much as he desired to give it. He lifted her legs higher, pounding his cock inside her with merciless strokes. His eyes shut tight and he threw his head back, groaning deep in his throat as he climaxed.
    Once his eyes opened and he could focus again, Andy gathered Alice in his arms. They held each other close, stroking each other’s hair and face. He locked eyes with her and knew this was the turning point of their relationship. She’d opened up to him, given him every little piece of her heart.
    An hour passed before Andy broke the silence. “Let’s get cleaned up and grab some breakfast.”
    Thirty minutes later they found themselves in the hotel restaurant ordering pancakes, like any normal couple, though he still longed for true normalcy and ached to provide a stable life for Alice. He’d formulated a plan, but he hadn’t broached the subject with her yet. Staring across the table into her pretty eyes, he decided it was now or never.
    “I have some things to say, Alice, and I want you to be quiet and listen until I’m finished. Okay?” When her eyes flickered with worry, he smiled reassuringly. “It’s nothing bad, I promise.”
    She relaxed. “Okay, I’ll listen.”
    He reached across the table for her hand. “I’m done with the band after the last show. I’m not going to New York to record the album—they can find another drummer. I want to go back to Salisbury, with you.” He squeezed her fingers. “I want to make a home with you, Alice. What do you think about that?”
    Her silence startled him, but he waited patiently. She stared out the restaurant window, wearing a blank expression. Finally she turned and met his eyes. “I think…that sounds very nice. I want to be with you, Andy.” She squeezed his fingers back.
    They spent the next few hours going over the details. Andy planned to call a real estate agent for a listing of houses that met their specifications, but until they found their dream house they would squeeze