“I know we’ve been talking about more serious stuff, but I’m still in the mood… if you are.”
“For what?” I teased.
She shot me a sly, sideways grin. “I
“You know me so well.”
“Mmm, I do. I also know you’re going to do some
My eyebrows shot up. “I thought it was twice.”
“Uh-uh. I… um… have little ones. Sometimes a lot. Pretty much any time you touch me. Not right away or anything, but…” She shrugged. “I can’t
explain it. It’s like a tingle whenever we’re close. Like now. Just sitting with you has me all hot and slippery.”
“Well, we’re also talking about sex.”
“It isn’t that,” she insisted. “Sometimes it’s even when we aren’t. Like, when we’re drawing together at your desk or just sitting in my studio. I think of you and get all worked up. And I… um… sort of squeeze my legs together. I’ll touch myself if I can get away with it without someone noticing
—even you, Mr. Eagle Eye.”
“I’ll have to pay more attention.”
“Why? So you’ll see that I can’t control myself?”
“No, so I’ll see you give in to your desires.”
“That’s all I ever seem to do where you’re concerned.”
“I like it.” I chuckled at a memory. “I used to get annoyed when you hinted but wouldn’t ask for things.”
“I could tell. And
I nodded. “But now I think I understand.”
“Me too.”
“A lot of your pleasure is from being forced to do something. That, and the threat of humiliation.”
“And
“No. I don’t mind taking charge and being the dominant one—it’s my personality anyway—but I don’t want to be the only one making decisions, especially about something as important as sex.”
“I make decisions too!”
“I’ve noticed.” I tilted her chin up for a kiss. “And I’m more comfortable doing things without you explicitly asking.”
Her eyes suddenly brightened. “Does that mean you’ll—?”
“No,” I chuckled. “You’re still going to have to ask,
“But I
“Then you aren’t ready. Not for real.”
“I know. You’re right. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Why can’t you just hold me down and have your way with me? You know I won’t feel guilty. I promise! I— Don’t shake your head, I’m not finished.”
“If you can’t ask, then you’d feel guilty. Maybe only a little, but that’s
still too much.”
“Sometimes I really don’t like you.” She fell silent and stared at her hands in her lap. “I’m sick of waiting. I mean, we’re getting closer every day, and not just physically. Emotionally and spiritually too. I
disagreeable. But even my dad likes you, although he made my mom promise not to tell me.”
I chuckled. “He probably told her
“Do you really think so?”
“Uh-huh. Your parents understand each other very well. The more I learn about them, the more I like them. They’re a very,
“You really think so?”
“I do.”
“Not until the wedding,” she said automatically. We shared a grin, and then she continued, “I think so too, which is why it’s so annoying that I can’t just
But… I can’t bring myself to say it.”
“I’m not so worried. You’ve changed a lot just in the last several months.
I mean, you’ve basically gone from the girl who said she’d never sleep with me—”
“I
“—to the one who wants me to tie her up and drip candle wax on her.”
“Mmm, yes, please.”
“Who cares if it’s another few weeks or even a month before you’re ready to go all the way?”
“Ugh! I hope not. I want it to happen now. Like, tonight.”
“When you’re ready,” I chuckled. “When you
She nodded glumly but then adjusted her attitude again. “Something I
My eyebrows rose with a question.
“No, not like
Come in my mouth, on my face, on my body. Do anything you want. I’m
yours to use as you please.”
Christy poured a generous amount of whiskey into her glass and immediately drank half of it. I’d filled the bath and climbed in first for a change, so I admired her body from the warmth of the tub. The skin around her nipples was pink from where I’d dripped wax on her, along with a trail of pink splotches that led down her stomach to her shaved pubic area.