Page 42 of Protecting Her

When they finally broke apart, Carmen's eyes held a heat that had nothing to do with combat and everything to do with survival. "Stay with me?"

The question carried layers of meaning beyond just this moment. Jude saw their future reflected in Carmen's gaze: more missions, more fights for justice, and more battles against corruption. But now they would face everything together. They were stronger for having found each other.

"Always," Jude whispered against her lips.

This time when they kissed, it felt like coming home. Like finding shelter after storms, like victory hard-won and worth every cost. Carmen's hands slid under Jude's shirt, tracing scars and muscles with familiar devotion. Each touch carried the weight of everything they'd survived together.

As they removed each other’s clothes, slowly, they moved together with the same synchronization that had guided them through combat, reading each other's bodies with practiced ease.

Jude leaned in to brush her lips softly against Carmen’s, just to get a taste, but Carmen had enveloped Jude’s lips around hers. Jude leaned in against Carmen, deepening the kiss and savoring the hint of salt on her lips.

Jude was already feeling her desire grow stronger, but when she moved to get on top of Carmen, Carmen had already twisted her leg between Jude’s legs to trip her and get the advantage. Jude flipped on the bed in one fluid motion, taken off guard by Carmen’s swiftness, and smiled up at the woman who had already so fiercely captured her heart.

Carmen leaned in close to Jude’s ear. “Got you.”

Jude’s eyes narrowed. “I let you.”

“Yes, love.” But there was no conviction in her words. Instead, Carmen positioned herself in between Jude’s legs. When she leaned down for another kiss, Carmen’s right knee edged closer to Jude’s pussy until it pressed against it. Carmen applied soft pressure as she circled her knee against Jude astheir tongues danced together, flitting in and out of their mouths and rolling over each other

Jude reached up, her pleasure already building in her core, and softly traced the swell of Carmen’s breast while staring deeply in her eyes. Carmen’s gaze softened at the edges as she stared back, and Carmen placed a finger under her chin to lift it slightly to lock their lips again, this time with a little more intensity.

Carmen’s knee kept working its magic, and Jude closed her eyes to savor the moment. She let her hand idly move from Carmen’s breast up her chest then back down, touching the softness of her stomach before she moved her hand downward, resting just under her stomach.

Carmen shifted and let Jude’s hand drop on the mattress underneath them, and Jude looked up in Carmen’s eyes that were already dancing with desire. Her lopsided smirk grew bigger before she slipped her hand between Jude’s thighs. “Not yet,” she purred. “It’s your turn. Let me love on you.”

Jude wriggled to reposition, trying to suppress her smile. “All yours, babe.”

Carmen leaned down and slowly—painfully slowly—teased Jude by running the tip of her tongue around Jude’s clit but not quite hitting the spot on purpose.

Jude growled in a low voice, but Carmen just chuckled. “Patience, my love.”

She continued circling around-but-not-quite-on Jude’s clit, dipping every so often between her folds, and Jude felt herself get slick from want. Jude shifted her leg to give Carmen space, trying to get Carmen to focus on spot that would make her see stars. But it was futile. Carmen must have known what she was trying to do and kept evading, countering Jude’s movements almost before Jude could shift in a new position.

“I said to bepatient.” Carmen slipped in a finger and swirled it inside her before entering another.

Jude’s core tightened and heated up. “Please,” she whimpered softly.

“What was that?”

Jude sighed. Carmen knew exactly what she was doing; Jude could hear it in the playful lilt in her voice.

“Please,” she repeated. “I want you. Icraveyou.”

“I like you like this.” She smirked and added another finger, then pressed her palm against Jude’s clitoris, putting pressure exactly in the right place. “Good girls get rewarded.”

Carmen leaned in and kissed Jude, then trailed feather light kisses on Jude’s cheek, on her jaw bone, along her throbbing carotid, down her neck, across her chest, and over the swell over breasts before she licked Jude’s nipple then captured it in her mouth and sucked.

Jude inhaled sharply, the sensation overwhelming her, and she grabbed Carmen’s breast and squeezed. Hard.

Carmen shifted above her and nibbled on Jude’s nipple in protest, but Jude’s leg started to get slick from Carmen’s wetness dripping on her.

Carmen kept sucking on Jude’s nipple and began to thrust her fingers in a delicious rhythm, and Jude felt the pleasure build inside her until it felt like it was going to completely overwhelm all her senses, but at the last possible second, Carmen took out her fingers and trailed another path of kisses, more insistent this time, down her breast, down her long torso, over the barely there swell of her stomach, and down, down, down.

Until she reached the spot just above Jude’s clit.

And she paused.

Jude could feel Carmen’s breath over her clit, teasing her in ways she didn’t know she could be teased.

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