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Charles' need was evident and Elsie wanted desperately to please him. His tears were too much and she could not continue to deny him. "Are you sure?" he asks quietly, feathering her neck with light kisses.

"Yes." she answered breathlessly. She reached down and stroked him through his undershorts and he groaned.

The quiet solitude of the morning was soon interrupted with the sounds of passion. Charles moaned while he petted her jawline and neck with wet kisses. He squeezed her breast in his palm, closing his fingers around it and brought it fully to his lips. He circled the nipple with his tongue and sucked gently. "baby"...he murmured. He moved up her again, his body heavy against hers and met her gaze. He smiled and kissed her tenderly on the lips. "I love you so..."

"And I love you." she reached down and pulled her nightgown up around her waist, her eyes never leaving his. She had grown accustomed to sleeping with no undergarments on so she was bare and when Charles glanced down, he took in a long, deep, breath. It had been so long since he had the privilege of being right here. He felt like a schoolboy again and his face blushed feverishly. He moved from the bed and pulled his shorts off. She sat up and let him pull her nightgown over her head before laying back again to wait for him. He stood in awe of her body. Her creamy skin tone, the curve of her full breasts and the protrusion of her collarbone made his cock jerk involuntarily. He joined her again on the bed and kissed her, his tongue finding hers. They kissed for a long while, this simple act meaning so much to both of them. It was the foreplay that started their physical relationship, it was the one thing they could do, when they could do nothing else. He knew her lips like he knew he was breathing.

Elsie reached up and touched his bottom lip with her slender finger. "I love you.." she whispered between her caresses. Charles was rock hard and she knew he needed release. "Make love to me Charles. I want you inside me."

He obeyed, moving over her, she opened her thighs. He eagerly pushed in. "Oh honey...wait...slow..." she instructed him.

"Oh I'm sorry...sorry baby." Charles reached down and used his fingers to get her there. "How's that?" She nods and he enters her again with greater ease. She tensed a little and closed her eyes. "Just relax my love." Charles paid careful attention to her and endeavored to go slow and make this pleasurable for her.

He moved slowly inside of her for a long while. He knew she was just not with him and hasn't been for so so long. It pained him to make love to her when he knew she would rather not. But he needs her so, needs to feel this...her around him. He buried his face between her neck and collarbone. She turns her face away from his; he sensed she was crying. They both know. This time, like too many times before, will end up in frustration and sadness.

Charles stopped his movement, not willing to push her to do something she doesn't want to do, struggling however to cover his frustration. He sighed heavily and sat back, ran a hand through his thick hair and closed his eyes.

Sobbing, Elsie brought her hand up to cover her face. "I'm sorry Charles...I thought I could..."

Angry tears pooled in Charles' hazel orbs and he sat up. "NO! NO! This is not going to happen again!" He pulled her hand away from her face, a little more aggressive than he ever would intentionally be with her. "Elsie! I know you want this...I know you need this. You have to trust me again. You have to listen to me and let me help you!" He begged her. He wanted so desperately for her to feel this...feel him inside her. He leaned down and kissed her, he couldn't stand to see her in this state. "You can do this Els..." he whispered, pleaded, breathlessly into her ear. "Don't give up...fight for us...for this..." he spurred her on.

She cried out slightly, her tears coming now without reserve. "I'm trying...but I don't think I can..." she choked out.

"You can...just relax..." he moved on top of her once again and waited for her to open her legs for him. She did and he slowly slid inside her. He raised up enough to look her in the eyes. "Open your eyes..." he commands her.

Elsie did as he asked, tears streamed from the corners of her eyes. When her eyes met his, she couldn't bare to look at him and turned her head away from him.

"NO...look at me..." he begged clenched his teeth together, his baritone voice thick with emotion. "Please Elsie...trust me..."

Once again, she obeys . "Charles...I just can't..."

"Shhh..." he kissed her lovingly on the lips, the cheek, nose, "Just...relax and listen to me..." his dark eyes pleaded with her. He gave her a loving smile. "I love you Elsie Carson...I want you...and I need you and I know you need me." She cried and nodded. "Remember...London?" his voice was gruff and his eyes shimmered with unshed tears. "...think about the first time we made love..." His own desire building again, he continued his movement, gliding smoothly in and out. "Do you? Now...close your eyes and picture us..."

She squeezed her eyes closed, willing herself to break free from the darkness in her mind.

"Do you remember?...in London...let your mind go back there... you were so beautiful, Elsie. The first time I saw you, in that black garter and...your breasts, your body...oh god your naked body..." he now had to close his own eyes, burying his face again, his lips so close to her ear. He struggled to remain steady so he stopped his forward motion for a moment and laid quietly to catch his breath and calm down. In his motionless state, he was shocked to feel her move against him. Elsie raised her hips slightly and rocked gently forward, just as if it were their wedding night, just as if she did need him so badly that she could not stop the involuntary movement to feel more of him.

"That's it...oh Elsie...baby..." he kissed her more fervently now. "Elsie...remember...that night...you were so...ready...so eager." He trailed his mouth down her chin and that hollow place between her collarbones. "...so tight..." Charles pulled out of her and she whimpered.

"Honey..." she said breathlessly.

He licked and suckled at her breasts, taking his time with each one. "Your body...Elsie...oh God...you're so beautiful...remember the way I moved inside of you...how you cried out for more...how I stretched you...yes...that's it...just relax baby..." Her body began to writhe, her respiration ragged and her hands trailing through his gray locks.

"Charles...oh..." she cried but her tears were emotion wrought from pleasure...overwhelming pleasure, like the first time they made love.

"You were so hot, your body was so hot that night, in London, the first night you gave yourself to me. I buried myself deep inside you...remember love? We couldn't get close enough, deep enough." He continued kissing her, stroking her, caressing her. "Do you remember...?"

Elsie smiled and nodded. "I do my love...I do..." She arched and drew her leg up, resting her heel on his shoulder.

He reached her middle and grasped both of her hips, pulling her downward until her bottom rested on the end of the bed. He slipped just off the bed and knelt on his knees in front of her then slid his tongue gently along her folds and lapped at her opening with the most tender administrations. Elsie's knuckles were white as she gripped a handful of the sheets and brought it to her mouth to stifle her cries.

Charles made love to her with his tongue, his fingers, his words first then entered her. The moved sensually in rhythm, their rhythm until her whole body shook in pleasure, a pleasure she had never felt. It was deep inside her and the spasms were strong and seemingly unending. He met his end soon after and they collapsed, breathless and spent.

"Oh my God Charles..." Elsie was the first to speak after a long while of just heavy panting and sighing. She was elated, giddy almost. She had made love, really made love for the first time in months and she felt it...she pushed herself emotionally to the brink and it worked! She sat up, legs crossed, next to him in the bed. "Honey...that was amazing! I just can't believe it..."

Charles lay reposed on his back, slowly returning to normal, his arms folded behind his head and a wide grin across his lips. "That's my girl! I knew you could do it!"