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I didn’t knohat to call , and profound, and frightening--after all, losing Portia had felt like being unchained, but the idea of losing Ruby felt so hideous it turned so over inside s so starkly and then to stay here in the middle of ive her everything I had, wanted to let her kno absolutely mad I was for her

I trailedFeel this, I thought Let s I can’t say

I pulled her coat down her arers to the buttons of her shirt, silently begging her toher features and then she read souish, some needful hope--and she see to pullwe postpone dinner?" she asked againstus over to one of the wide, ar roo her skirt, pushing her underwear down her hips, hungrily sliding my palms over every inch of her naked skin Ruby’s curves were s at her shoulder, grasping her breast in auging my reaction "We don’t have to--" she started, but I cut her off with a kiss

Let go

She slid my shirt from my shoulders, unfastened my belt, and sloorked my trousers downan to lower herself to her knees beforeher up and bending to slide ue eet and sainst mine with a sudden, aware desperation Her sliher hands into ,asher softest, most vulnerable skin

"Do you want to move?" she asked, lips wet, eyes heavy

Did she mean moveinto her?

"Iyes?" I arched beneath her, seeking contact

She leaned in to kiss , "I mean, do you want to ainst the way my brain wanted to pick up that question and consider it too carefully Getting up and walking to my bedroom would ricochet us out of this place of lust and relief that felt so bloody good I didn’t want to move an inch I would think too much about what this meant, what I felt, that I’d never had sex in that bed, and that I’d only put a nao

My brain wanted to be sure about all of this

Stop

No

No

"No" I bent, kissing her neck asher, slick and warainst my shaft "I don’t want to move"

Her hips circled and she shifted up until I knew a siroaned I’d forgotten--orand mindless and wild I wasn’t myself I was a man anted pleasure, wanted to fuck, and was free to do it for the first tied

"I’asp "I’ there

"Coroan, I lifted up as she lowered herself and she choked out a small noise that sounded so much like pain and pleasure I nearly stabbed upith how savage itout so sht I pulled back to assess her face She stared at my mouth, her own lips wet and partedand she looked fucking subliet used to" Her eyes rolled closed and she let loose these delicious, hoarse cries every inch she lowered herself onto hts obscured by the silken feel of herher body tensing so tight around ed my head down to her chest

When I was fully inside her she began to shift in perfect, tiny,into the back of my neck and she squeezed hts right into etting off, using an to rise ers slid higher and gripped my hair, her hot mouth sucked and scraped at hs and her breasts as her skin brushed across th; it was like being sub to come up for air

And her sounds, oh I’d never heard such honest expression of pleasure, tight and sharp right againstbliss she allowed herself--chipped away at hable experience to date This was for her pleasure just as much as mine and the reality of it--what sex should be: an intimacy to be shared rather than endured-- across my skin