title: What Enters the Mouth
author: Sarah Jefferis
description: Sarah Jefferis is an author and editor from Ithaca, New York. She has an M.A. from Hollins University, an M.F.A. from Cornell, and a Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton. She has been a poetry and a fiction fellow at the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference and at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in several journals and her first poetry book, <em>Forgetting the Salt,</em> has been widely praised by critics.
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  KISSING SARAH
  
  Alex brushed his lips across hers and sent a shiver of delight through her
  body. Sarah knew she should stop this before it went any further, but as she
  moved to escape Alex brought his other arm up to stop her.
  
  “Stay,” he pleaded. “You cannot ignore what is between us.”
  
  Sarah moistened her dry lips, her eyes shying away from the intensity of his
  gaze. Alex wanted her. There was no denying the attraction between them, but
  the risk was too high. Sarah could not afford to lose her freedom to any man,
  especially not the man who was going to wed her cousin.
  
  “We should not be here like this,” she whispered.
  
  “It is too late.” Alex moved his head closer and Sarah closed her eyes as his
  warm brandy-scented breath tickled her nose.
  
  He captured her mouth slowly, gently nudging her lips and then easing his
  tongue in. An exquisite lethargy stole throughout her body. She surrendered to
  his kiss, allowing herself to be drawn into the web of pleasure he wove ..