I'll be your girl for all seasons

Once, when they were hardly more than children, they had loved so fully and passionately that he wondered how it had been possible at all. Slowly, with time, the fire between them had dulled, but it had never completely gone out -- and it never would. Time had certainly changed them, and he would never feel like he once had, and yet she still made his heart feel light and his spirit feel free as he lay beside her.

The warm water still soothed his tired bones, breathing new life into the elder, energizing him slowly but surely. "I love you more," he told her with a low chuckle. His jaws would trail down her spine, nipping gently at her skin, with alarming delicateness for a man of his stature. Slowly he would lift himself onto all fours, eager to feel her again, careful as he lifted himself over her, tongue lashing out to caress the fur between her ears loving as two became one.

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