John Steinbeck's Into My Arms

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Into My Arms is what happens when you finally let yourself go and get what you have been dreaming of. Short, sweet and sexy romance, that will leave any reader wanting more.

In this brief romance we find that both Z and Beth have been watching each other from afar, not knowing what the other feels about them. When Z finally listens to his friend Bran’s advice, he takes his advice a step further. He ordered Beth to join him for a weekend, she never knew was a weekend they would both never forget. Z intimacy issues, that he never let a woman touch him. But when he finally let Beth have him, his heart opens further and let her in without even realizing in. In the night of passion they both never though they would get, both their feelings interwhine

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