He saw that she was moved and went to kiss her. The taste of her, the feel of her skin, her scent. He got powerfully hard almost instantly.

"Now however I am going to interrupt your plans to study, because I have other plans for you."

His kiss grew more passionate as he moved over her. Cara loved having him above her: his size, his strength.

He unbuttoned her blouse and moved his hands under the fabric, feeling the growing swell of her breasts. It was like unwrapping a present, she was more than perfect with her new curves.

Cara felt her skin sing at his caress. Even when he was gentle with her he was still insistent, still the one in charge.

"The second you graduate you're moving in with me so I can enjoy this every night," he told her. Had honestly never been so in lust with any girl before. He was insatiable for her.

He drew the rest of her clothes off and gloried in her body. Her tan had long faded but her limbs were like silk, the perfect shape, his alone to enjoy.

She was more than responding to him, wresting his own shirt off, unbuckling his belt. He felt himself twitch and throb as her hands slid onto him to release him from his clothes, he nearly came at her touch. It was like being a schoolboy again. He was already ripe to bursting.

"I'm not going to last long," he warned her.

"We have all afternoon and all night, and then all of tomorrow, and then tomorrow night."

She was teasing him but right at that moment he couldn't imagine doing anything for the next forty-eight hours except making love to her.

She opened for him and he drove inside her, feeling her warm, wet heat around him.

He was barely inside her when he totally lost control. He said her name over and over, gripping her to him as his body was racked in a kind of exquisite torture.

"I want you too badly, that's the problem," he said.

Cara was still in ecstasy just from the feel of having him so close. Matt slid his fingers to where he knew she was most sensitive, staying inside her. He pressed and swirled his fingers around, watching her flush and her eyes glaze with the sensation.

He had such command of her body that he brought her to orgasm within a minute, and as she spasmed around him he already felt himself growing hard again. He wondered which of them would face exhaustion first.

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She was so easy to be with. Matt had forgotten how relaxed Cara made him feel, how she took the weight of the world off his shoulders just by being there.

They were still discovering things about one another. Both of them had been guarded to some extent in Sri Lanka as it was only supposed to be temporary.

"Will there really be such a fuss when it all comes out?" she asked him.

"Immense. But we'll get you away somewhere."

He knew that time was running out in terms of keeping it from the media. Miggy had promised to share her plans for that with him but he knew what she was like. She might spot a sudden opportunity and "leak" something.

Either way come the end of August the game would most definitely be up. JJ had promised to manage it so that Matt didn't look like a deserter or humiliated, and Miggy didn't get hung out to dry as a scarlet woman cheating on an England hero.

Then of course there was Cara, and Matt's actual child on the way, though this could possibly be kept under wraps for a few more months. Cara wasn't due until mid-November which bought them time. Matt hoped that the furore over Miggy's baby would render any future events in his personal life less shocking.

Did he want to spend until November sneaking around though? He was proud of Cara, proud of this pregnancy. He wanted to be able to be seen openly with her and stop all the concealment.

Patience. He just needed to take things carefully and follow JJ's lead. After all he was a master of the dark arts of publicity.

That night they made love yet again. The moon was a couple of days past full and it streamed into their room, cold and pure. Gleaming white, different from the golden moon of Sri Lanka.

He was rocking into her tenderly, looking down into her eyes which shone in their strange and beautiful way.

"I love you," he told her.

Cara was overwhelmed. She knew how she felt about Matt, she had known for months, but she had no idea he returned her feelings to the same extent.

She had hoped it might grow over time, but here he was, already saying it.

"I love you too."

His lips met hers and they were one flesh.

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