Page 73 of Pallas & Kawehi

"I feel like we're still just us, together."

He tilted his head to the side and looked at her with a quizzical grin. "That's the thing when you're with someone you love. You can just be yourself and enjoy your time together."

Her eyes widened as he got up and stepped out of his board shorts.

Kawehi placed her hand over her heart, feeling it beat like it was racing. "You... you love me?"

"Yeah. I love you, Kawehi. I didn't think you were ready to hear it, but my mouth got ahead of my brain." He stopped at the bedside table with his wallet in his hands. "Are we okay?"

She nodded, her feelings rushing around in her heart. "Yeah, we're... we're more than okay." She looked at the wallet in his hands. "I hope you have a condom in there. I don't have one."

Smiling again, he opened his wallet and pulled out a couple of condoms, putting one down on the table with his open wallet. "I like to be prepared."

She laughed softly at that. "A Boy Scout?"

He ripped open the packet and lifted his brows with his smile. "Eagle Scout."

Kawehi couldn't believe how light she felt inside. Before, sex was always such a stressful thing. Something that was solemn at times and fraught with worry. She slipped off the side of the bed that he was on and hooking her thumbs into the nightgown that had caught at her waist and the panties she'd put on the night before, she worked them down to the floor at her feet before standing back up.

Dom was standing beside her, his gaze traveling over her from head to toe. "So beautiful."

She stepped closer, her hands on his chest, her breath almost catching in her throat. "I've never felt like this with anyone else. I never knew that I could feel this kind of attraction... passion. I want to feel like this over and over."

"I like to have goals in life," he touched her face with one hand and put the condom into one of her palms with the other. "Help me with his, sweetheart? Put your hands on me."

She didn't want to tell him that she didn't know how. Her... her partners had always done it, wasting no time getting on top of her and in her.

She wanted to give him some of the attention that he'd given her.

Kawehi took his hand and turned her back to the bed to sit down on the edge.

He stood there before her, looking like a marble god come to life. A mythological lover made of proportions that she'd never seen in classical art.

"Is it that funny?" Dom's voice held more than a hint of humor in it.

"I was just thinking that I've seen the David statue and Michelangelo had it all wrong. David wasn't the perfect man."

"Yeah?" Dom sucked in a breath when she trailed her fingertips across his belly. "So I make it on the list?"

Kawehi almost laughed at how surreal this felt. "You are the list."

Placing the condom at the tip of his cock, she used her hand to slowly roll it on. "I can't believe that you're here with me."

"I wouldn't be anywhere else."

When her hand reached the root of his cock she drew in a breath and felt a little lightheaded.

"Lie down, sweetheart. Let me love you."

She nodded and managed to get somewhere near the middle of the bed as she watched him get up on his hands and knees. "I'm trying to remember this moment so I can play it over again tonight before I sleep."

Dom moved closer and used his hands to spread her legs as he moved over her. "I'll never forget this."

When he was looking down at her, his eyes bright with what she thought was love, he moved his hands over her hips, leaned down to place kisses on her lips and her breasts.

Dom reached up near her head and pulled a pillow away from the headboard and swiftly tucked it under her hips.

He smiled at her. "You look surprised."

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