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Linden didn’t know how to answer that question, so she just leaned down and kissed Asher sweetly.

“With someone you…” Asher started but faded out. “With someone who means everything to you, it’s just…”

“Better?” Linden guessed.

“Yes,” Asher said with a smile. “You…” She shook her head. “I don’t know if I’ll be any good at that. I mean, what you just did broke me.”

“In a good way?” she asked hopefully, running a hand over Asher’s face.

Asher nodded and said, “In the best way.”

“We can work our way up to that, Ash. Or, you don’t ever have to do it to me. I’m honestly perfectly content right now.”

“Perfectly content? You mean you don’t…” Asher ran a hand up and down Linden’s back. “Do you not want to be touched? We’ve never really talked about this.”

“Oh, Iwantto be touched. I will happily be touched by you. I just meant that I get as much or more pleasure from what we just did as when I’m touched. I just did that withyou, Asher. You looked so beautiful and peaceful. I mean, what’s better than giving someone you care aboutthat?”

“Well, I’m hoping what I’m about to do to you,” Asher said. “Can you roll over, or are you really always on top?”

Linden laughed and rolled off of her. Asher rolled onto her side and stared down at Linden’s body.

“You are so damn beautiful. Do you know that?” Asher asked as her hand moved over Linden’s skin.

“If I say yes, is that egotistical?”

Asher laughed and said, “Not if it’s true. And it’s definitely true. I could just stare at you all night.” Asher’s hand landed between Linden’s breasts. “How did it take me so long to figure out that I would love a woman’s body? Look at you; you’re perfect.”

“My head just grew three sizes, Ash,” Linden teased as she ran a hand through Asher’s hair.

Asher looked at her then and said, “I’m nervous again.”

“I’ve been nervous this whole time,” Linden replied. “We can just lie here.”

“I don’t want to do that.” Asher looked down between Linden’s legs. “I want to touch you.”

“Okay,” Linden said and spread her legs, letting Asher know that she could.

She continued to run her fingers through Asher’s long hair as she waited. Had hair ever been this soft? No, right? No hair had ever been this soft. But before she knew what was happening, her focus was pulled down because Asher’s fingers slid into her folds.

“Oh, fuck,” she said, unprepared.

Asher didn’t say anything. She just kept staring down at her own hand and watched, almost in awe, what it was doing. It was typical Asher: she didn’t do anything unless she could put her full attention on it. It used to be something that bothered Linden, who preferred to multi-task, but she’d never complain about it again because Asher was drawing slow circles around her clit, and Linden hadn’t realized until this moment how hard and ready she really was.

While Asher’s fingers continued to slide around, Asher shifted until she wasn’t resting her head more on her elbow but on her hand, and her arm was locked in position. She wanted a better view, Linden surmised. She wanted to really see what she was doing to Linden. Linden spread her legs wider for her and lifted her opposite leg a bit, causing Asher to lick her lips and get a little closer until she could stare down at her fingers sliding against Linden’s clit. When she licked her lips again, though, Linden about came. Her hips jerked, and Asher’s face turned serious and concentrated as if she was trying to figure out why they’d just done that.

Then, Asher shifted again until Linden could no longer play with her hair, and she watched her fingers more closely as she kissed Linden’s hip bone. Linden knew Asher had to be able to smell her from there, and she worried for an instant becauseAsher hadn’t ever done this with a woman, and if she pulled back, it could mean that she didn’t want to again. Instead, Asher lowered her mouth and pressed a kiss just above Linden’s clit, to Linden’s surprise.

“Ash,” she whispered.

But Asher was on the move again until she was kneeling between Linden’s legs, still watching her fingers slide up and down Linden’s length. When her blue eyes met Linden’s, they were darker than Linden had ever seen them, and they looked determined, too, as Asher’s fingers slipped inside her. Linden waited for her to pull them back out and push them in again, but she didn’t.

“What you just did to me; do you like that for you?” Asher asked in a deeper voice than Linden had expected.

“Yes,” she replied.

Asher nodded, considered something, and moved again until she was on her stomach, with her fingers still inside Linden. Holy shit! Asher was about to go down on her. Linden tried to brace herself because as much as she wanted this, there was a chance Asher would decide against it. It was her first time touching another woman, after all. Then, Asher’s free hand spread her apart, and she stared down at Linden, licking those sexy lips again before she lowered her mouth to Linden’s sex.

“Oh, my God!” Linden’s eyes closed on their own as Asher licked her.

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