It was then as he felt the trembling of her slight body against him he was aware that her frightened little voice had died away and her face was turned up to his.
Without conscious volition and without thought, but obeying an impulse stronger than will, his lips found hers.
He knew as he touched her mouth that it was exactly as he had thought it would be in his dreams, soft, sweet, innocent and a wonder that he had never known in his life before.
Because he was no longer himself, but a stranger over whom he had no control, his arms tightened and he felt her quiver with an unmistakable rapture that matched his own.
He kissed her possessively, demandingly and at the same time reverently because she was different in a way that for the moment he could not explain even to himself.
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