Page 45 of Promises We Meant to Keep

Kamryn’s breathing intensified as she moved. Deep intakes and slow exhales as she teased. Elia was so close already. She was ready to cascade into her orgasm and let Kamryn hold her while she did it. She tightened her thighs around Kamryn’s head, needing to be rooted as best as she could when she did finally orgasm.

Elia closed her eyes, focusing on the sensations and the feelings. Feelings that she had long kept hidden away. Was there love in there? Hope? Was she even capable of those things anymore? With Kamryn, she thought that perhaps just maybe she could be. But it would be so dangerous to let those things out again.

Writhing and struggling to keep still, Elia stayed planted until she couldn’t hold back any longer. She flung her arm out to the side and pushed up on her elbows. Their eyes locked. Kamryn’s brown to Elia’s blue. Elia’s heart thudded hard, her breath caught, and she was gone. Crying out, Elia let her orgasm, her pleasure, her life as it was now with Kamryn consume her.

But Kamryn didn’t stop right away.

Elia’s body twitched sharply as Kamryn slowed her teasing, and just when she thought that Kamryn would back away, she didn’t. She picked her pace back up again. Elia briefly thought about telling her to stop, telling her that it was too much, that she’d be too sore in the morning. But fuck she only lived once, and that first orgasm was delicious.

She needed another one.

Staying as upright as possible, Elia watched this time. Kamryn’s face was deep against her, buried. The little curls must be tickling her face, but Kamryn didn’t seem to even notice them. She was so damn focused, so determined to do whatever it was she was doing.

“That feels so good,” Elia said, smiling when Kamryn tried to grin back at her. “Pull my nipples.”

Kamryn reached up with her one free hand and cupped Elia’s breast. She used her hand to test the weight, the softness, and flicked the edge of her thumb over Elia’s hardened nipple.

“Pull them,” Elia demanded. “Hard.”

Kamryn pinched Elia’s nipple between her thumb and forefinger and did exactly as she had been told.

“Ohhhhh.” Elia let all the air out of her lungs before sucking in sharply. “Again.” That had been exactly what she’d needed. Kamryn did it again and again, elongating how long she held the nipple tight before releasing. Elia was so close already. Her entire body was ripe for pleasure and Kamryn was going to give and give no matter what they did.

“So close,” Elia said, holding onto that feeling. This was what she’d needed—the closeness, the connection. She shivered as she came again, holding still against Kamryn’s mouth until she could finally find her brain again somewhere—though she was pretty sure it was mush now.

Kamryn moved her finger and thumb across her lips, and then she licked them, sucked them into her mouth and smiled as she stared directly at Elia. “You taste just as good as I dreamed.”

Elia’s heart stuttered.Dreamed?Had Kamryn dreamed of this too?

Dropping her legs to the counter, Elia surged forward and pulled Kamryn up by the chin. She pressed their mouths together, tangling their tongues. She could taste herself onKamryn’s lips, the cold dampness against her cheeks now. It was sloppy. It was pure. It was a promise.

They stayed there for who knew how long. Elia completely lost track of time. When she pulled back, she was grinning. “Bedroom.”

“I thought you’d never get to that point.”

Elia chuckled lowly. “Oh, we’ll definitely be in there for a while.”

Kamryn helped her slide off the counter. Elia took Kamryn’s hand and led the way up the creaky old wooden stairs to her bedroom. She flicked on the light, wanting to see everything of Kamryn, as much as Kamryn had seen her. She walked backward toward the bed with her hands out to her sides.

“You better get undressed if you’re staying.”

Kamryn’s lips pulled upward. “Hell yes I’m staying.”

“Good.” Elia reached the bed and stopped when she didn’t see Kamryn moving any more. “What?”

“Thank God your bedroom is messy. I was about to think you were some sort of weird perfectionist.”

Elia laughed, her voice ringing through the air. “Only in the public-facing spheres.”

“That’s sexy as hell.” Kamryn immediately undressed, dropping her clothes on the floor next to Elia’s dirty clothes. Elia didn’t care one bit as she watched. Kamryn climbed onto the bed and lay back, her head on the pillow and her look insistent. “Well?”

“Well what? If I had to tell you want to do, it’s only fair that you tell me.”

“Hmm.” Kamryn used her bare foot behind Elia’s knee to jerk her forward slightly. “Get on top.”

“This is for you, not me.”

“Oh, I know.” Satisfaction dripped from Kamryn’s voice. “This is for me.”

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