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A small groan of frustration and desire racked Mel’s body as she struggled to insert a finger into her slit. She gasped and panted as she forced herself to accept it into her. Wiggling her thumb, she managed to push it in all the way to her knuckle but that’s where it ended. Wiggling her thumb around in the slick flesh, she was hit with several odd sensations at the peculiar feeling of being able to feel her own insides – or at least part way up – and having something move around inside of you where nothing had ever penetrated before. At sixteen, she was still a virgin, which wasn’t surprising, but she longed for the hot passionate sex that gave her friends the pleasure she still needed to enjoy. Mellissa Pellings groaned and gave up, pulling out her one finger and fell back naked against the bed sheets of her queen-sized bed. The juncture between her legs throbbed for attention that she couldn’t administer to herself. With a sigh, she forced herself to try again. But to her frustration, she couldn’t find the slit again and instead, stabbed herself in a very tender area. With a yelp of pain, she removed her finger tenderly and tried to look at herself between her legs to see if she had caused any damage. “Need help with that?” a low, masculine voice asked from her open doorway. Mel froze. She swore she had closed the door securely and locked it. Reading the expression in his sister’s face, Sebastian came into the room after closing the door behind

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A small groan of frustration and desire racked Mel’s body as she struggled to

insert a finger into her slit. She gasped and panted as she forced herself to

accept it into her. Wiggling her thumb, she managed to push it in all the way to

her knuckle but that’s where it ended. Wiggling her thumb around in the slick

flesh, she was hit with several odd sensations at the peculiar feeling of being

able to feel her own insides – or at least part way up – and having something

move around inside of you where nothing had ever penetrated before. At sixteen,

she was still a virgin, which wasn’t surprising, but she longed for the hot

passionate sex that gave her friends the pleasure she still needed to enjoy.

Mellissa Pellings groaned and gave up, pulling out her one finger and fell

back naked against the bed sheets of her queen-sized bed. The juncture

between her legs throbbed for attention that she couldn’t administer to herself.

With a sigh, she forced herself to try again. But to her frustration, she couldn’t

find the slit again and instead, stabbed herself in a very tender area. With a yelp

of pain, she removed her finger tenderly and tried to look at herself between her

legs to see if she had caused any damage.

“Need help with that?” a low, masculine voice asked from her open

doorway.

Mel froze. She swore she had closed the door securely and locked it.

Reading the expression in his sister’s face, Sebastian came into the room after

closing the door behind him and locking it, and sat down on the bed. His eyes

roamed around the room, stopping at her splayed legs, her calves folded neatly

against the back of her thighs, pulled apart to reveal the soft fuzz of brown hairs

between her legs.

Mel was a beautiful creature, he thought as he smoothed a large hand

over her buttermilk-soft golden legs. Her naked body trembled under his touch.

“Please….” she whispered, but her voice trailed off. She wasn’t sure whether to

ask her brother to just leave or to help her with her dilemma.

Sebastian wasn’t into incest but he, for several reasons, decided to help

Mel: she looked really desperate; and he hadn’t seen a woman masturbate in a

while. And he would rather that he be the one to help his baby sister in her first

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experience than some cad who would be rough to her (and who he probably

would need to find and kill later for hurting her).

Gently, he pushed her shoulders down to the bed and she shook with

nervousness as she did so. “Relax, Mel,” he told her gently with a smile that he

hoped would assure her. Mel was very trusting of her brother who would never lie

to her about anything. “Lie back and relax otherwise this won’t work.”

She let out a deep breath and lay her head down on her bed as her

brother moved closer to her. Warily, she watched him as he pulled off his shirt.

Slowly and gently, as Sebastian always did things when it came to Mel, he used

his hands to part her legs farther apart. Her naked chest heaved as cold air

brushed against her exposed genitalia. He felt his cock spring to life immediately

but he ignored it with a grunt. This was about Mel’s needs, not his.

Using one hand, he gently parted her labia and pushed a finger slowly into

her slit. Encouraged by the pulsing of her slick vaginal muscles as they flexed, he

moved deeper into her until his whole middle finger was buried deep inside of his

baby sister’s sex. She gasped and her back actually arched, pushing her

buttocks against his hand where he had placed his fingers, even though he

hadn’t done anything else. “Goddam, Mel, you’re tight as fuck,” he hissed.

Sebastian even doubted now that he would be able to follow the first finger with a

second seeing that the size of her slit was so tiny.

It could only mean one thing. He wiggled around just to pleasure her for a

little longer as Mel groaned and her hips bucked in his hold, but he withdrew his

finger, leaving her gasping on the bed. He stood up and unbuckled his pants.

Hooking his boxers in his fingers as he slid his pants down he clambered over

onto the bed next Mel and put his back against the backboard. He reached over

and helped Mel sit up who was recovering from the brief fingering she had

received from him earlier.

“Mel, if you want this, you got to do this by yourself, and I won’t rush you,”

he told the girl. She was eyeing his cock with wide blue eyes. It pulsed before her

eyes as if stroked by her gaze. Sebastian suppressed a groan of lust as he

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watched his sister. He lowered his legs and helped her angle herself so her hips

were positioned over his. He held her up.

“Is this the –” she choked off as she realized what he was telling her.

He nodded with a smile. “Mel, you’re too tight for a normal fingering. This

is the only way,” he told her again. Damn…he had never seen someone so hot or

felt someone so tight. His cock seemed to agree with him as it tightened. He

could barely get his words out calmly. “Nicely and slowly, baby.” He realized he

forgot to add “sister” at the end of his statement as a pulse of desire wracked his

body. It took all he could to keep himself under control.

Mel didn’t notice the missing word. She was more focused on her

brother’s hands on her naked hips and the length of him before her. All for her.

His hands guided her down gently and slowly until its tip touched her slit and she

stiffened. “We can stop whenever you like,” he whispered to her.

She nodded and took a deep breath. With a keening sound, she speared

herself on the head of his erection. She groaned between gritted teeth as she

moved down his length. Sebastian’s head was thrown back against the back

board of the bed as he groaned with her but his hands were steady as he guided

her down. Her tight, pure, never-been-touched glove clutched at him tightly. And

he hadn’t even penetrated very far.

Her chest heaved before his eyes but his eyes moved away from them

and were focused more on where they were joined. Suddenly a scream of pain

and ecstasy escaped her throat as the head made it all the way into her but she

cut it off suddenly, her eyes wildly darting towards the door. “It’s all right, Mel, let

it out. There’s no one home but us,” Sebastian assured her.

Her mouth opened and her head was thrown back, exposing the lovely

column of her throat. His hips began to move, drawing a screech from her and

she clutched at his shoulders. Gritting his teeth, he willed himself to gain more

control and his hips were still again. “How much is in there?” she gasped, her

chest heaving. Full breasts bobbed up and down in front of him.

“Three inches,” he replied.

“How much left?”

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“Six inches,” he gritted out. Damn, she was so tight. “Just relax.”

She did and with a scream of absolute agonizing torture, she slid two

more inches down his length, gasping. He managed to hold in an animal bellow

as the sudden movement nearly dislodged all of the self-control he had. “Just

slam it in,” she screamed as she tried her hardest to work herself down his

length, trying to take in all nine inches of him into her virgin pussy.

“Fuck!” he screamed to the ceiling as her movements not only not

manage to move her farther down but up an inch, but made him lose total control

over himself.

Without disconnecting them, he easily flipped her onto her back. Pulling

her thighs farther apart with hands that he removed from her slim waist, he

slammed the rest of the five inches into her with a growl. She screamed with pain

as he slammed himself into her, at first slowly, as he gained more control, but

then he lost it again as his momentum picked his control apart. He watched with

lust-filled blue eyes as his baby sister’s mouth opened in a scream or a moan for

every thrust of his cock into her tight sheath. Her own blue eyes were closed and

tears had formed at the corners of her eyes. Mel felt like she was being ripped

brutally apart from her core. Her eyes opened again and released another

scream.

She had thrown her arms over her head and her full breasts jiggled freely

with his movements. Golden legs were wrapped around his waist as her slim

body arched against his. He captured a breast in his hands and rubbed her

nipple into a taut hardness and squeezed, drawing a gasp. His other hand came

around to cup the back of her head as he crushed his lips against hers.

Feverishly, she kissed him back and he could feel the moans deep in her throat

as he slammed his hardness into her pussy without stop. Her hot vagina filled

with her juices and soaked his cock, making it easier for his reentry every time.

He kept this up for well over half an hour, even as she climaxed several

times under him, as he rained kisses down on her face, neck, and breasts and

wherever else needed his attention. Her screams and moans never ceased.

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Finally, he felt his own ejaculation coming and quickly, before he could

spill it into her, he ripped himself completely out as she screamed and cried at

the same time. With a groan, he rolled off of her and spent himself on the sheets

next to her. His chest heaved as he rolled onto his back, throwing an arm onto

his sister’s heaving stomach. He could feel her limbs trembling.

“Are you okay, Mel?” he asked her quietly after a moment, his voice husky

with their rough lovemaking. He turned to look at her, propping himself up on one

arm. The other pulled her closer and she rolled over and pressed her naked body

up against his. He could feel her sweet moist breath on his chest. Reaching out,

he stroked her brown hair tenderly.

The tips of her breasts brushed against his chest as she pulled herself

against his side. A slim arm was thrown over his neck and his arm came down to

hold her close to him by her slim waist. “I’m sorry, Mel, that was going too far,”

Sebastian whispered to the silent figure against his chest. He ran his hand down

her back, slick with sweat.

Frowning, he reached down and gently pushed her onto her back. Her

blue eyes opened tiredly and watched him as he shifted around so he could see

her slit more clearly. Mel made a half-squealing sound as he reached out gently

and touched her slit. He pushed her flailing legs away and opened her labia

again, this time to make sure she hadn’t gotten injured.

With a sigh of relief, he let her go and her legs closed again. “Sebastian?”

her eyes were bright as sapphires as she looked at him. He looked up at the

sound of her name on his lips. Her blue eyes sparkled. “Thanks.”

With a nod he climbed off of her bed and put on his clothes, easing his

boxers up over his cock, hiding it from view again. He pulled his pants on,

followed by his shirt that had been deposited earlier. “We’re going to need to

change these sheets before Mom and Dad get home,” he grunted as he noticed

the wet spots from their rough lovemaking and his final ejaculation at the end.

Without question, she clambered off of the bed with some difficulty due to

the ache between her legs and in one smooth movement, pulled the sheets off of

the bed. Bundling them up, she handed the ball to Sebastian and turned around

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to retrieve fresh sheets from the closet. As she bent over, Sebastian grunted as it

gave him a wide view of her pussy and her puckered anus.

He went up to her and placed a hand on her bare lower back. He felt the

muscles on her back jerk as she started to straighten but a little pressure from his

hand signaled her to stay down. Using his feet, he eased her legs out wider until

she opened up wider for him. Slowly, he slid a finger into her hot sheath again.

Her buttocks bucked against his hand and a low moan escaped from her,

vibrating down her spine. This time, he went in easily with one finger. “Damn!” he

swore as she cried out with the sudden penetration of her most private area.

“What?” she gasped, trying to catch her breath.

“Despite what we did, I didn’t stretch it as much except made it easier for

penetration,” he sighed.

“It’s all right,” her voice floated up to him form somewhere down at his

feet.

He nodded and then withdrew his finger, drawing a rasping breath from

her. Sebastian sat down with a thump, leaning against the bed frame of the bed.

The bed he had just screwed his own sister on. “Fuck! I can’t believe I just

screwed my own sister,” he swore, putting his head into his hands.

Small hands removed his and stroked his face. Mel eased herself into her

brother’s lap, straddling his hips as he gazed up at her with blue eyes that

matched her own. His large hands came around to rest around her waist.

Sebastian groaned at the contact Mel’s naked body had on him, despite his

layers of clothing. His cock stirred again.

“It’s all right,” she said again with a tentative smile. “I asked.”

He nodded slowly as she leaned forward and brushed her lips against his.

He leaned forward and pressed his mouth to hers and she took him readily. His

tongue flicked at her lips and her lips parted to let him in. A moan boiled at the

back of her throat as she leaned into him, her arms circling around his neck.

Sebastian pulled Mel’s naked body closer to his. She didn’t resist as he struggled

to pull his pants down just low enough to expose his cock again.

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“Ever thought about anal?” he whispered against her lips, panting. She

shook her head violently as her eyes closed. She widened her legs and eased

herself over him again with a hiss.

To his surprise, and much to hers, she speared herself violently on his

cock. He cried out with her as her muscles contracted from the sudden widening

of her slit and clamped around his member. Gasping, she tilted forward and

leaned against his chest as he drew his legs up against her back. Then his pants

vibrated as his phone rang and he scrambled for his phone, trying to ignore the

feeling of his cock inside his sister’s tight sheath.

He located the phone and fished it out of a pocket as he felt her hands

slide under his shirt even as she kissed and nibbled the line of his jaw. He let the

shirt slide up over his head as the phone rang and quickly answered it once he

saw the caller ID name: Mom. “Hey, Mom,” he said into the phone. Mel froze at

once and kept still. He put the phone on speaker phone and set it on the bed as

he leaned forward and kissed his sister’s half-open mouth. She made a noise of

surprise and her hands came up on either side of his jaw, bringing him in closer.

“Hey, hon – something’s come up and we need to go on a trip. Dad and I

know you can take care of Mel so we can leave you too it right?” a female voice

said over the speaker phone.

Sebastian chuckled quietly with amusement and Mel smiled and kissed

his jaw delicately. “Of course, I love taking care of Mel,” he told the phone. He

reached around her waist and gently touched her anus after licking his finger

first. Her body jerked against him, making him have to bite his lip to keep a groan

from escaping with the movement. Mel didn’t have that much control. Her mouth

opened and quickly, he clamped a hand on her mouth as he slid his finger into

her other hole.

Mel writhed in absolute torture on top of him. “…Mrs. Allens will be

checking up on you two every once in a while to make sure you will be fine,” their

mother was saying.

“All right,” he replied.

“Can I talk to Mel?”

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Both of their eyes darted at each other and then at the phone. Mel shook

her head, not trusting herself enough to know that the next thing that comes out

of her mouth would be groan. Sebastian considered just making an excuse

saying that Mel couldn’t come to the phone but then their mother would call again

later. Instead, he removed his finger and let her sag against him. She tried to get

her breathing under control as Sebastian stalled for them.

“Sure. MEL!” he bellowed. “She’s coming,” he told the phone.

“Okay.”

After a few more seconds, Mel gave up and just lifted her head. “Hey,

Mom,” she said, trying to keep her breath normal. There was no mistaking that

she was panting. Sebastian picked her up and moved with her onto the bed,

easing her under him as he bit her shoulder to keep from crying out. Mel’s eyes

shot wide open and she struggled not to yelp with surprise.

“Hey, baby,” her mother started but then stopped. “Why do you sound so

out of breath?”

Mel’s brain scrambled to work as Sebastian began to work against her

slowly, his cock sliding in and out of her wet pussy. “Uh…I just ran up the stairs,”

she finally said.

“Oh, all right. Listen – Dad and I will be out of town for the rest of this week

and Sebastian will stay home with you and take care of you, all right?” her

mother explained. “Mrs. Allens from next door will check on you two every once

in a while to make sure you’re okay.”

“Mmm,” Mel said but it was more of the beginnings of a groan that started

as Sebastian grabbed her hips and tilted it towards his to give him better access

as he slammed in and out of her, his rhythm picking up in speed and strength. He

lowered his head and bit an erect nipple to hide a bellow th was forming, drawing

a yelp from her.

“Mel? Are you all right?”

“Yeah, sorry, I uh….stubbed my toe,” she hastily replied.

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There was a pause. “All right then, you two have fun this week. Call us

every night,” her mother finally told them. Mel nodded but the phone lit up as the

line was cut.

“Sebastian,” she protested as he worked his hips wildly against hers. She

finally let loose the scream that had been building inside of her for a long time.

Her hands grabbed his brown hair, the same color as hers, as he worked harder

and harder, slamming himself into her. The force of the impact nearly brought her

hips completely off the bed with a screech. And because they were on the edge

of the bed, both of them fell over onto the floor.

Without hesitation, he stood and gathered her trembling body against him

as he slid in and out of her, standing. Her long legs were wrapped around his

waist and she moved with him, slamming her hips down against his every time

he came up to meet her.

She was sobbing into his shoulder now and he felt the salty tears run

down his chest as his cock slid in and out of her pussy, overflowing juices

running down her legs and his. Then, with great control, he pulled out of her. She

arched against him, waiting for his next reentry but when it never came, her eyes

opened as she trembled with the effects of lovemaking.

He set her down and bent her over. “Grab your ankles,” he told her gruffly.

Trembling, she did and he reached two fingers into her stretched slit. Hearing her

moan, he smiled and pulled out his fingers and slid them into her anus, gently

teasing open the hole. She gasped and her whole body trembled with his touch.

Before her legs buckled, he grabbed her hips and gently eased into her

backdoor, little by little.

Screams erupted from her throat as his huge cock slid up her rectum.

“Stop!” she cried, tears running down her face. It hurt, not because he wasn’t well

lubricated, but because he was too big. She couldn’t take him.

Sebastian gritted his teeth and pulled out of her and caught her when she

fell. His cock trembled for the need for release. Mel seemed to understand when

the two of them collapsed onto the floor on top of each other. She straddled him

again when he protested, knowing in this position, he would have no control. She

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pushed him down on his back and gritting her teeth, she lowered herself down on

him. Sebastian helped guide her pussy to the head of his member and like

before, she screamed at she eased herself on. Sebastian was impressed. For a

first time, Mel was very willing to do this.

“I don’t know how to do this,” she gasped, bracing her hands on his lower

stomach. His own hands were behind her thighs.

“Up and down, Mel,” he whispered to her. He managed to sit up and drag

the both of them to lean against the wall. Folding his legs up slightly, he helped

her. He pushed her up and down the length of his throbbing cock and once she

found her own rhythm, she rode him on her own, panting and groaning with each

effort. His voice and hers intermingled in her small bedroom as they called out

their pleasure for each other.

Her breasts bounced and jiggled in front of him as her movements

became faster and faster. Her eyes closed as she braced her hands against his

shoulders for support and some leverage. Her hips bucked quickly against his,

grinding into him every time she came down hard. He groaned as she began to

scream his name, rising up to meet her every time she came down.

Finally: “Mel, get off,” he hoarsely whispered, frantic as he felt his release

was close. She didn’t hear and instead, her eyes opened to meet his, crazed with

lust. Chest heaving, she slid up and down his length even faster.

“MEL!” he screamed, struggling to restrain himself.

She shook her head and wound her long legs around him. Finally he

couldn’t hold it any longer. With a cry, he ejaculated into her, mumbling

something incoherently against her hair as his arms wrapped around her

shoulders and held her tightly against him. His hips jerked as with every load he

released and she was screaming as she realized what was happening. By

instinct, she clenched her legs tighter around him and the hot sheath of her

clamped tightly around him. Excess juices leaked out from between them,

trickling down both of their bodies, soaking into the clothes he still had on.

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It was finally over. Trembling, both of them stayed where they were.

Thoughts were whirling around in both of their minds about what they had done

that was wrong, but felt so good at the same time.

Slowly, Mel unfolded herself from her brother’s embrace and tried to

stand, but her movements caused the shaft inside her to stir and harden inside of

her again. Sebastian kicked off his pants and thrust them to the side and he

helped Mel up. She stumbled on her feet and he held her steady until she could

find her footing. “Hit the shower, Mel,” he commanded, his voice husky. She

turned to look back at him and he smiled encouragingly at her. “It’s ok, I just need

a moment.”

She nodded and stumbled off, not bothering to put on any clothes or bring

any with her. Mel went into the hall and turned a corner into the doorway of the

bathroom. Moving to the shower, she turned on the water and without bothering

to wait for it to warm up, she stepped under the cold spray of the water, cooling

down her hot skin. Her hair was soon soaked through and water trickled down

her shoulders and down her body. As the warm water came, she relaxed and

leaned against the wall of the shower, pulling the curtain around her.

“Mel?” she heard Sebastian call as he entered the room.

“Here,” she murmured, but he heard her. The curtain was pulled back and

she looked up. Sebastian stood there as she had seen him earlier. He stepped

into the shower with her and didn’t flinch as the water hit his skin. Pulling the

curtain around them, he turned to her.

“I want to wash you,” he whispered, his eyes raking up and down her

body.

Slowly, she nodded and smiled.

“And maybe, I’ll teach you a new thing or two. We’ll have lots of fun this

week,” he murmured to her as he stepped behind her. Reaching around her, he

picked up the bottle of soap and lathered it onto his hands. Setting the bottle

down, he spread the soap on both of his hands and started on her back, rubbing

the soap in. The lower he moved, the quicker her breathing became.

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By the time he reached her lush buttocks, she was moaning again.

Looping an arm around her waist, he held her still as he slid his hand between

her buttocks. Finding her small puckered anus hole, he flicked it with a finger and

she gasped at the sensation. Gently, he teased it open and slid a finger inside.

Mel froze in his grip as his soap-covered finger pushed deep inside of her,

drawing cries from her. He eventually removed it and kept her steady as he

lathered her thighs and her legs.

Turning her around, he soaped up her shoulders and as she stared up at

him, he gently lathered her breasts, taking his time with each one. After that was

done, his hands moved down to soap up her belly. As he drew closer to the tops

of her thighs, she collapsed on the shower floor on her back and her legs were

opened wide for him. A single touch with a soapy hand made her hips buck

again, straining against his hands. Instead of obliging her, he moved past that

area and finished her legs.

Taking the showerhead down from its rack, he twisted the head so that it

was on a hard massaging blast, that he knew by experience, was brutal but felt

good to the back as jets of water pounded out of it. “Hold still,” he advised as the

water streamed against his hand. Kneeling down next to her, he ran the head

over her chest as jets of water pounded against her skin. She eyed it nervously

but as it moved down, her hips began to move again.

Then it hit her full blast in her pussy and she screamed. Sebastian grinned

as he watched his sister’s body strain against itself as he pushed the head

against her skin. She moaned and screamed as the water pounded her. He

moved it lower towards her anus and she yelped as it hit her. “Open up,” he

advised, and as he watched, the hole widened and the water streamed in. she

gasped in pleasure as the water shot inside her.

Then, without warning her, he suddenly moved the showerhead, not

bothering to turn it off and pushed himself inside her anus, changing her gasp to

a scream. Before she realized it, he had pushed himself all the way up inside of

her. Hooking her legs over his shoulder, he grabbed her hips and began

ramming himself in and out of her backdoor as she lay limp on the shower floor.

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“I’m going to fuck you silly,” he growled to her as he worked faster and

faster. She screamed in pain as he began to move faster and faster. “Relax,

Mel!”

She obeyed and soon, she was screaming in pleasure as one of his hands

slid inside of her other slit. Her breath came in ragged gasps and soon she was

too out of breath to scream so she moaned and writhed on the ground as he

moved faster in her. “I’m starting,” he shouted to her but she didn’t respond.

Then he released into her and renewed her screams of shock. When he

was finished, he pulled out of her and collapsed next to her on the shower

ground as the showerhead sprayed the both of them with jets of hot water. She

crawled to her knees and sat on his chest, obstructing his view.

“Mel, what – ahh..” he moaned as he felt her lips gently kiss his flaccid

shaft. Soon, it was hard again and she was taking it into her mouth. Her body slid

back up at him and soon, he was kissing her buttocks and everywhere else he

could reach.

They pleasured each other this way for quite a while, lying there in the

silence of the bathroom. Before the water ran out, Sebastian reached up and

turned off the shower water. Soon, both of them were trembling with cold as they

were still soaked wet but neither of them seemed to notice. “Sebastian?” Mel

asked hoarsely. Her body shifted until she had turned around and faced him. Her

hips were still near his mouth. He kissed her there, burying his nose in her soft

fuzz as her hands grabbed his hair, pulling him closer.

Soon she felt his tongue flicking in and out of her, but her body was too

tired for any more. Sebastian could feel her exhaustion, but it didn’t keep him

from eating her out. “Mmhmm?” his voice came from under her.

“I love you,” she whispered.

His teeth, scraping gently at her clit told her that he loved her too.