Layla panted as he cried out, his climax coming quickly, for that she was thankful because it meant that she'd pleased him at least physically that day.  She certainly had not made him very happy outside of that moment.<br/><br/>Knowing that if the Merit that she had been a year before met the Layla that she was at that moment, the Merit would look down on the Layla and call her weak.  But Merit was gone, she'd changed too much and all of her naivety had been crushed and pushed away.<br/><br/>Kissing him back, she fought the tears that threatened her. She wasn't sure what she felt, he wasn't the first person that she'd been with since her husband, so it wasn't that she felt like she was being disloyal.  It was that he hadn't hurt her, not once. He hadn't been cruel to her.  She clung to him tightly, afraid to let him go.  "Thank you."<br/>