He quelled her resistance with merciless force.

He choked the cry she tried to utter with the fiery insistence of his kisses.

He held her crushed against his heart, so overwhelming her with the volcanic fires of his passion that in the end she lay in his hold helpless and gasping, too shattered to oppose him further.
She scarcely knew when the fearful tempest began to abate.

All sense of time and almost of place had left her.

She was dizzy, quivering, on fire, wholly incapable of coherent thought, when at last it came to her that the storm was arrested.
She heard a voice above her, a strangely broken voice.