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"Do you have a camera?"

How did she do that? How did someone so contained, so naturally refined, let loose that co open fro it up to her "This’ll do?"

"Will you take pictures of us?"

I blinked, and then blinked hard again Was she kidding? "Fuck Absolutely"

"No faces"

"Of course not"

A beat of silence passed as we both considered what I could do with this gadget inI reeled froot off on this as much as I did I could see it in the way her pulse beat wildly in her throat, at the fever in her eyes

"Nobody else sees the any part of you Of course no one else sees the at her The first shot was of her shoulder The second of her hand on her breast, her nipple caught between her fingers A soft h to slip between her legs

Voices echoed in the hall, pulling us out of our dark corner and back into the reality of where ere, and hoe both eventually needed to return downstairs I rolled a condoth and reached up to pressit inside

She answered wordlessly, wrapping her legs aroundto pull me closer I watched myself slide into her just as the door to the ballroohtness froh the screen and painting her torso with its ribbon of light Her breath caught but I didn’t stop, instead lifting her chin and ain Heat spread from my ck up my spine at the feel of her around ripped her hip to steadyher farther down the table toward h for me to capture a sensual, dark photo of my hand on her skin Footsteps crossed the roohtened aroundback and away

I watched her niles harden, her lips part in excite

Myher nipple "They’re right there," I whispered, bending to kiss her neck and relishing the wild rhythm of her pulse under ht and I pinched again, rougher this ti back I just want to push farther and farther and farther in"

"Harder," she begged in a whisper

"My hand, or how I’ainst the skin of her neck "You’re fking dirty, you know that?"

HerI could get even deeper soainst reater insistence Fuck, she aro before her Thankfully, with a squeak, she dug her nails painfully intoas she cahtheaded, euphoric, as if so inside was about to explode

The sound of footsteps returned, and then came to a quiet stop just on the other side of the screen I felt h to make me see stars It went dark as I pushed one final time, my head buried in her neck as I let myself drown, lost to every other sensation as I came deep inside her

And then silence, the collectivebreaths, and nobody dared tojust beyond the screen, the stillness of so I turned my head and saw Sara’s wide eyes, her teeth buried into her bottom lip A moment passed, and then another before the footstepsour sweaty bodies just as the door closed

Five

Monday , I found Chloe in her suddenly cluttered office, staring out theHer furniture and all of her boxes had finally arrived, and her pacing andtold me that she was

I’d spentbetween horror and celebration over what I’d done at the fund-raiser, and had coh and looking too closely at what ht on Saturday and, unfortunately, h all of the contracts and invoices I needed to get done this week Other than a handful of phone calls, I had nothing to do, and these days an idle Sara was not a good thing

"Need help?"

Chloe laughed, flopping down on her couch "I don’t even knohere to start We just finished unpacking our apartment Plus, I feel like I just packed all of this up"

"Start with your bookshelf I never feel organized until I can see the neat rows of books all set up"

Shrugging, she slid froainst a wall "Did you have fun at MoMA?"

I opened a box of supplies and pulled out a box cutter "Definitely"

I could feel her look up atattention pressed into the side of my face I probably should have elaborated, but led hat else to say What else had happened? We arrived Had some hors d’oeuvres Max and I danced, and then I asked him to take pictures while he pounded me on a table

By the time I remembered the rest--the dinner we’d one to attend, the beautiful garden I’d escaped to after ourencounter, too much time had already passed for me to add to my one-word answer

"Good," she said, and I could hear the slad you decided to come Max and Will apparently host that every year and they raise a ton of ," IMax in a tux Good sweet baby Jesus, thehalf nad, too

I looked out the , re heat of his breath on e hand over my breast "I just want to push farther and farther and farther in"

My brsts weren’t small but the size of his hand had made me feel tiny, like he could pickafraid, I had spread s wider, welcomed him deeper

"Harder"

He pulled back to look atyou?"