And I nearly die of desire.
The way she opens herself. How much she wants me. How she gives me her body.
It’s all too much and never enough at once.
I wedge myself between the paradise of her thighs, rub the head of my cock against that wetness, then slide inside her.
She gasps gorgeously, arching her back at the same time.
And that, right there.
I want to capture that. Remember that.
The way she wants me.
And the way I want her.
I sink all the way in, filling her, my chest against hers, my arms wrapped around her shoulders.
I can’t get close enough to this gorgeous woman.
“Yes,” she moans.
I move in her, heeding her call, giving her what we both want—connection, closeness, contact.
I run my hands up and down her back, and she sighs and moans with every touch. She loves to be touched. She responds to each sweep of my fingers, each press of my palms.
As she wraps her legs around me, hooking her ankles over my ass, I let myself forget that we’re not a couple.
This will all end very soon.
But right now, it feels like we won’t ever stop.
Later, when she’s sound asleep in my arms, I play out scenarios in my mind. I imagine possibilities.
Maybe I’m stupid for not seeing this coming. I should have considered this kind of trouble before we started working our way through the list. But jumping through all those hoops with her, watching her take chances, push herself, surprise herself . . .
It’s like reading a great book for the first time.
Or the fifth.
You don’t want to put it down. You just want to keep turning the pages, to discover its secrets, to see if it’s still as good as you remember—and it always is.
Ruby is the book I want to keep reading, the person I want to know, inside and out.
I park my hands behind my head, stare at the ceiling in the dark, questions flickering before my eyes.
But they all start and end with bridges I don’t know how to cross. I have a plan, a path, and I’m too far down that road to turn back now.
I’ve resigned myself to the list. Just the list.
And then I’ll let her go.
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Ruby
Must draw cartoon pies and adorable animals eating said pies.