she felt again the sudden amazing surge of power in him , as he lost all sense of restraint and seized her , lifting her as though she weighed nothing , rolled her back against the straw and took her , half hesitating as he remembered her freshly riven flesh , then answering the demand of her nails in his back to come to her fiercely , forcing her past the fear of impalement , into acceptance , and welcome , and finally into a frenzy that matched his own , rupturing the last membrane of reticence between them , joining them forever in a flood of sweat and musk and blood and sem*n. she moaned out loud , shuddered and lay still , too weak even to move her hand away .