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Dorie Snow/雪多丽's avatar

You ended it perfectly. I know how much restraint that took for you not to make it smooth and gentle. I’m sorry to see these two characters go, I have enjoyed following their story.

With everything else, you have my deepest heart felt prayers and thoughts. If you need anything, please reach out to me. If you find you need nothing and just want someone to sit with you, I’m available anytime, day or night.

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Demetria Balfour's avatar

Oh, I’m not done! I am simply allowing myself freedom from sticking to a schedule, in case I feel the need to step away, or am forced to for health reasons. Cancer is forcing me to shift my priorities around, and I’m still not sure where all the chips will land.

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Dorie Snow/雪多丽's avatar

Ohhh I understand, yes makes perfect sense. Right now is all about you, no one deserves a moment of your time but you.

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Tim's avatar

This, Demetria, was simply stunning. The energy, the drive and reactions of the characters and, that final the description of Eva's release at the end. Wow!

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Demetria Balfour's avatar

Thank you so much, Tim. I almost took this chapter in a very different direction. I have a natural urge to smooth things over in my personal life by talking, to try to reach a resolution that is calm and reasoned, and so I originally had the characters sit down and talk their feelings over with each other. Then I remembered that sex can be therapeutic in and of itself, especially after an argument when the right words simply cannot be summoned because emotions are too raw. And I am writing an erotic romance, after all.

Sometimes you just need to burn off that outer layer of anger with a good, hard fucking so that the right words can emerge afterwards.

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Tim's avatar

Well, I'm very glad you didn't. This was a perfect follow on. And you are absolutely right, that physical hard fucking comes before the words, but the way you wrote it with Harold demonstrating controlled intense dominance was spot-on.

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Darkly Romantic Klar Nett's avatar

Great scene this was. I loved the exploration of her pushing through discomfort, possibly pain, then transmuting it and yielding. Not something we see in genre a lot I think.

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El heaven eight's avatar

That was intense! Wa!

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