Page 95 of Unbreakable Love

“Like I’ve said before, I do anything you don’t like, all you have to do is tell me.”

“I know.” She leaned in closer, and I took the hint. I pressed my lips to hers and then jumped when her hands came out and pressed to my stomach. She settled them at my hips, thumbs brushing the button of my jeans.

“Take them off,” I whispered against her lips. As she worked, I relearned the feel of her body. The softness of her shoulders, the tenderness of her sides.

Her fingers worked at my button while I wrapped my arms around her and unclasped her bra. With care and slow movements, my own fingers trembling with the urge to take, I slipped off her bra straps and dragged them down her arms to where her hands were lowering my zipper.

Together, we pushed down my jeans, and the bra slipped from her hands.

“Turn around,” I told her and gently spun her in a circle so she was facing away with me. I brushed my hands up her body, around the curve of her breasts, ignoring the places I wanted to touch before my thumbs went to her underwear. Cotton, beige and simple like her bra, they hid everything and yet somehow, were more alluring than the silkiest strap of silk.

They fell to the floor with a flutter, and Penny shivered as I kissed her neck. “Go on in. I’ll be right there.”

She glanced at me over her shoulder, lips parted, pupils blown with excitement.

“Go on.” I caressed her hip and gave her a gentle shove to get her moving in the right direction.

I waited until she was beneath the water, until it rushed down her back, giving me the perfect view of her curves and her backside with a barely visible birthmark above her right cheek.

Then I shrugged out of my boxer briefs. I was hard and swollen, and I squeezed my length until a quick sting of pain regathered my control.

Slow. I would do this slowly. Hell, I needed the reminder as much for myself as Penny. She was still standing under the water when I entered and stood in front of her. Eyes barely open, she looked away as I entered.

She’d been brave before, and the other night when she took what she wanted, but I also knew she needed to build up to that. “You’re beautiful and stunning, and I’ve wanted to be right here, with you now, from the moment I laid eyes on you.”

Her smile was sleepy, no less beautiful. “You glared at me and stormed out of the room moments later.”

“I went to Faye’s room and begged for Josie to be transferred to her classroom.”

She flinched at that. Hadn’t heard then how big of a jerk I truly had been. “You did? Why?”

“I was scared. I was scared to be right here, in this moment, with you and losing it.”

“Oh… Gavin.”

I kissed away her sadness and shoved down my own doubts. My own insecurities didn’t matter right now because they no longer existed. Reaching for my bodywash, I squeezed a healthy dollop onto my loofah and started washing her arms.

Her hand cupped my cheek, and she pulled down so we were face to face, almost nose to nose. “You’ll know I’ll do everything I can not to hurt either of you, right?”

“You wouldn’t be here if I were still afraid,” I assured her.

Acceptance lit her eyes, and I draped her arm over my shoulder, then began washing the rest of her body. I took my time, equally enthralled with the way she shivered and gasped and moaned when I touched her in places she enjoyed the most, and with the simple desire to learn her body, to memorize the look and feel of it.

Starting this with Penny didn’t come easy. It’d been a battle of my own internal wills, but as soon as I broke down and gave in to my fears, she swept them all away.

She was a woman who’d go to the ends of the world for someone she loved, and I would ensure that work was never in vain, never unappreciated by me.

Eventually, I’d cleaned all I could, and Penny took the loofah from me. “You haven’t even stepped into the water.” She giggled and spun us in a circle.

“I didn’t need to be wet to wash you.”

I was hard, though, and my length stood tall and long and thick between us. She avoided it as she retraced my own steps. Washing my back, my shoulders, and my stomach, she kept to the top half of me, and yet every few seconds, she tugged away from our kisses and glanced down.

“Touch me,” I said because it was clear she wanted to. “Take all you want from me, Penny, whenever you’d like.”

“You’re bigger than I remembered.” But as she said it, the loofah fell to the shower floor and her fingers wrapped around me.

I flinched at that first, hesitant touch and pressed my mouth to hers.

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