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DESPERATE
By Rocky

Not like this.

All the times he'd imagined it, she'd come to him from desire. Even--in his more optimistic moments--love. At last she'd quit resisting. And he'd be waiting.

But he'd never thought she'd come out of desperation.

And so he was poised to reject her, tell her it was too late. That the time had long since passed for the two of them.

Until he saw the look in her eyes, the naked need. And so he yielded, driven by something he didn't quite understand.

Not until later did he wonder which of them was truly desperate.

FINIS

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