Page 46 of Promises We Meant to Keep

Elia climbed onto the bed like Kamryn had asked her to. She got on all fours and straddled her. Bending down, she kissed Kamryn again, keeping their mouths pressed together, while she slid her hands across Kamryn’s still chilled skin. They’d have to fix that next. Maybe with a shower, or maybe with that tea she hadn’t made yet. But either way, they’d warm Kamryn up.

“Fingers,” Kamryn said. “And don’t take it easy on me. I’m not exactly easy to break.”

Elia took her time exploring Kamryn’s body, her delicious curves, her hips, her thick thighs, her amazing ass. Elia was just about to touch her large breasts again when Kamryn grunted. “Enough teasing.”

She supposed it was only fair. They hadn’t exactly taken it slow in the kitchen either. “How many?”

“As many as you want.” Kamryn intentionally parted her legs.

Elia glanced down between them, overcome with joy. She just wanted to touch, and she was finally given permission to do exactly that. She tenderly touched at first, seeking to know exactly where Kamryn liked it best, where she was most affected.

“Elia…” Kamryn said on a warning. “Fingers. Now.”

Payback was a bitch, but Elia was willing to let it slide this time. Inserting one finger at first and then a second, Elia waited. Kamryn was so tight around her. She wasn’t sure that she’d be able to fit a third finger in right away, not without some stretching and teasing first. Elia took a steadying breath, she centered herself so she could focus on what was coming next, and then she did exactly what Kamryn had done.

She tapped—a repeated and regular rhythm.

Kamryn curled upward, her face twisting in pleasure. She gripped Elia’s wrist tightly until her breathing evened out, and then she relaxed a bit more. Leaning forward, Elia trailed kisses up Kamryn’s stomach to her breasts. She pressed the heel of herpalm against Kamryn’s clit, adding to the pleasure that she was already feeling.

She pulled Kamryn’s nipple between her lips and sucked gently before flicking it with her tongue. She stayed there, listening to every change in Kamryn’s body, the way she moved, the telltale signs that what Elia was doing was good and wanted. She tuned her entire body into Kamryn’s.

There was nothing else but the two of them there in that moment.

“Elia,” Kamryn cried out. “Don’t stop. I need this. I need you.”

Elia shuddered as those words washed over her. She listened to them, let them echo in her mind until Kamryn shouted her name again, squeezing Elia’s fingers deliciously as she came and came and came.

Collapsing next to Kamryn, Elia let out a light laugh as she stared up at her ceiling. She was so relaxed. Sore already, but far more relaxed than she had been in ages. Kamryn turned on her side, trailing a hand down her side and stopping at her hip.

“Can we try that again? But slower this time,” Kamryn asked.

Elia smiled, surging up to meet Kamryn’s lips in a kiss. “Yes. After a break.”

“Yes, after a break,” Kamryn agreed. “A much needed and much deserved break.”

seventeen

Kamryn loved that warm feeling of a good sleep and waking up surrounded by it was exactly what she’d needed. But whatever pesky alarm was going off seriously needed to stop. Groaning, she shifted and buried her face deeper into the back of Elia’s hair and neck.

“Is that yours or mine?” Kamryn mumbled, still refusing to open her eyes. She didn’t want to know that it was morning, or that it was time to get up yet. She wanted to stay snuggled against Elia’s back, curled around and spooning her for as long as humanly possible that day.

“Mine,” Elia answered, though she didn’t seem very happy about it either.

“Where is it? Turn it off,” Kamryn whined again, pulling Elia tighter against her front. Shewouldstay there as long as she could. Alarms be damned.

“Probably the living room.” Elia seemed more awake now than Kamryn was ready for. Couldn’t they stay here even longer? “I should get up and shut it off.”

“But it’s so warm here,” Kamryn answered.

“And comfortable,” Elia replied, and this time Kamryn could hear the smile in her voice. Elia wiggled around, turningawkwardly in the bed so that she faced Kamryn and trailed fingers across Kamryn’s cheeks and then her arm before she pressed their mouths together. “We do have to get up and go to work, though.”

Kamryn groaned again. She really didn’t want to do that. She wanted to stay in this warm bed, she wanted to stay pressed up against Elia, she wanted to repeat exactly what they’d done last night. Elia kissed her again.

“You have a school to run, and I have classes to teach.” Elia pressed her lips in a line down Kamryn’s neck, her tongue dipping out to tease at the hollow of Kamryn’s collar bone.

Thiswas what she wanted.

Kamryn shook her head and burrowed in deeper. “Not yet.”

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