Page 89 of Rebel Romeo

I rolled onto my back, flinging my arm over my eyes as I groaned. "If you're going to talk about masturbation and vibrators, can you at least please start cursing?"

Pinching my wrist between two fingers, she lifted my arm off my eyes and forced me to look at her. "I'm really trying to rectify in my head all these sexy, depraved things we've done because if I'm being honest, I like them. Even though I'm pretty sure I shouldn't like them. And when I'm around you, my brain gets all foggy and good, sweet Kate slips away into the shadows and sexy, fierce Katherine steps forward."

In the time that she delivered me her little speech, she had shifted away from me. Across to the other side of the bed.

I roll the tension out of my neck and it responds with a loud cracking sound.

The moonlight slanted across her face, throwing a mix of shadows and light over her features. And in that moment it felt like we were on stage once again, standing in some kind of spotlight. That the entire universe had paused to take witness to this monumental scene and would soon erupt in applause as the curtain dropped on our relationship.

Taking her face in my hands, I looked into her eyes and whispered. "I love sexy Katherine."

She shivered and her gaze dropped to my mouth, making me want to kiss her more than anything else at that moment. Her breath hitched as she bit down on the corner of lip. “Then why won't you let her come out to play more?” she pleaded in a husky voice and goddamn if that cheeky little smile didn't curve one side of her mouth and do things to me.

My heart thundered in my chest as I glanced down over her body and all the things we could do together even if we weren't ready to go all the way with it yet. She was so eager and wanting, and without knowing it, she was driving me crazy with every word she spoke or movement she made. "Because you only get one first time. One first kiss. One first orgasm. One first..."

My words faded. Even the thought of sliding into her made me throb with hunger. "I just don't want you to regret it."

"Do you regret your first time?"

I trailed my hands across her shoulders to brush down gently along her arms until our fingertips were entwined. "For a while, I did.”

“I’m not you.”

“Thank God for that,” I snorted.

“I’m serious.”

“So am I.”

She sighed, heavily, dropping her eyes to stare at her cuticles. "So what makes you think I'll regret mine?"

I shrugged. "I told you... I'm an asshole."

Her smile grew as she shook her head, lifting her gaze back to mine. "You prefer for people to think you're an asshole because it's easier than letting yourself be vulnerable."

"And you prefer people to think you're plain because it's easier than them seeing you for the star you are. We're both afraid of vulnerability... it just looks different for each of us."

The silence fills the space between us in the quiet, dark room. "Have you used my present yet?" I can’t help the question. I don’t want to know the answer, and yet I need to know it all at once.

A confused look crosses her face. "The panties? You saw me wearing them?—"

"Not the panties. The other gift."

She still looks confused and I rolled my eyes. "Jesus, your vibrator, Kate. Have you used your vibrator yet?"

A blush heats her cheeks and she looks down at her hands. "Oh. That. Um, no... not yet. I thought you would have maybe wanted, um... you know. A video of it or something."

Fuck me. I fell back against the headboard, my head hitting the wood grain hard enough to thunk out loud. "You would do that?"

"Yes... well, maybe."

I release a slow, simmering exhale. "I have an idea. What if tonight is a different sort of first."

She sat up straighter, eyeing me carefully. "How so?"

I didn't want to take her virginity yet. But we both might combust if I left her room now. “Go get your vibrator."

She scrambled off the bed, opening the top drawer beside her lofted bed. The vibrator was still in the unopened box, but within minutes, she had it opened and in hand, ready to go, eyes bright and eager. Always the A+ student.

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