[Better - Or, well, very good since she has no understanding of his internal battles! She just knows he continues to impress her at just about every turn.]

Must be those - Alpha instincts.

[She gives an approving moan when he makes the path along her body, and eventually to the very nape of her neck, which is just the right amount of sensitive.] To think you would grow up so quickly.

[She manages to get that out before he dooms her to mindless oblivion all over again. It wasn't something she wanted to be tangled up in, and not a decision she would make in the middle of sex (Charlotte was repressed, not a damn idiot) but maybe it was worth considering. Maybe.]

I think that means you should really - you shouldn't be so gentle.

[Because he is, in a sense, or at the very least what he's giving her is nothing compared to what he gives his mate, right?]