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I knew the ache she was speaking of

Moving until I was on hs, I h, then went even farther untilmet more intimate parts of her body

When still she didn’t tense up, Imy thumb to sweep slowly over the lips of her sex

We both froze for different reasons, then

Me because she et as hell and bare to the touch, and her because I’d just touched so that no other man had touched before

At least, I assumed no other man had touched it before

I hoped no other man had touched it before

She hadn’t told ain anyway—but I just knew

With her aversion to touch, so that I couldn’t reot close to her at all in the hospital yesterday, I just knew that she wouldn’t have shared this part of herself with anyone else

“Holy shit,” she breathed “You’re so close”

So close to that ache

So close to touching her exactly where she needed me to

Iher entirely, then squeezed, causing her to jerk against me

I wasn’t sure what she needed fro this all as we

She didn’tsloith the assu to freak out at any second