Drove his tongue into her with deep, drugging thrusts.
Farah wanted to leave this place. To escape the smell and the death and the fear. But she felt her husband’s ribs expanding with heaving, painful breaths against her chest, and detected bone-deep tremors running through his solid frame, and so she stood passively in his arms, submitting to his scorching kisses.
He said her name almost incoherently between rough drags of his hard lips and bristly chin. “Fairy. My Fairy.”
She tried to answer him, to soothe him, but each time she took a breath, he claimed her lips again.