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My bra hung off one arathered everything up, a flash ofwith each iteht of hi my breasts

The shape of his mouth when I’d pulled off his belt

The way it felt when he finally, finally pushed inside me

The flash of fear on his face when I’d told hi to stir as I pulled on ed to slip out before he’d woken I was e up the fact that we had sex last night way before either of us expected to, so of course I would have to

But not even I, cos, wanted to have the conversation we needed to have

So, about last nightdid I unintentionallysex withto trust your own instincts that you gave in to what you thought I wanted?

"Ruby?" he called out, voice gravelly with sleep

I walked down the hall in bare feet, my steps muted on the wood floors He sat up when I entered, the sheet falling to his waist as he took in my clothes, the shoes in my hands

"Hey," he said, but it was ht of drowsiness but in his eyes was a clear note of confusion Guilt and irritation wrestled inthe," I said It was a lie, and I could tell by the way his face fell slightly that we both knew it "I need to run home before work"

"Now?" He sat up at the side of the bed, his hair an adorableto the floor Wow "I can drive you"

"No, it’s okay, I--"

"Ruby, stop," he said, voice deep and firet some clothes on"

He stood, completely naked, and out of some spontaneously polite instinct I looked away--very obviously--instead staring at the far corner of his roo like a twitchy lunatic