And when we come, it’s together—me gasping his name, him groaning mine, his cock jerking deep inside me as I clench around him and fall apart all over again.
 
 —-
 
 He doesn’t leave me after.
 
 He stays buried inside me. Face pressed to my neck. Arms wrapped around me like a shield.
 
 And when he finally pulls back and looks down at me, his voice is a whisper:
 
 “You good?”
 
 I nod, still trembling. “Yeah. You?”
 
 “I am now.”
 
 —-
 
 When he touches me, it’s slow.
 
 Deliberate.
 
 He sees me.
 
 Every inch.
 
 Each curve.
 
 Every scar.
 
 “You’re alive,” he murmurs, brushing his knuckles over my belly. “You’re safe.”
 
 I reach up and frame his jaw with both hands.
 
 “Yes, honey. We are..”
 
 Then I pull him down to me.
 
 It’s slow.
 
 Deep.
 
 High heat, low burn.
 
 His mouth doesn’t stop moving.
 
 Neither do his hands.
 
 He whispers my name like a prayer and makes love to me like I’m his every reason to breathe.
 
 And when he finally sinks in, trembling, all I can do is wrap my legs around him and give him everything I have left.
 
 —-
 
 I wake up warm. Naked. Sore in all the best ways.
 
 The sheets smell like woodsmoke, soap, and something darker. Something male and musky and mine.
 
 I stretch slowly, every muscle humming with memory.