“Shit... Kate... I'm gonna come if you keep that up, I... I just need a minute.”
 
 I smile. The normally so-controlled Nate is nearly losing it.
 
 He opens his eyes, and my breath hitches at what I see. They are dark with lust, but there is a soft look of love there, too. I can see it.
 
 “I love you, Kate. I love you so fucking much. I know it's too soon to say that, but it's how I feel.”
 
 He takes my breath away. “I love you too, Nathan.”
 
 Happiness radiates from him, and he moves out of me slowly and glides back in quickly.
 
 I press my head back into the pillow, “Oh yes... harder.”
 
 He does as I ask and rams into me harder. I wrap my legs around him tighter, trying to draw him further into me.
 
 He does it again and again, harder each time . . . filling me, he bends to bite my nipple through the material again and I shatter . . . I come, clenching him tight as I do.
 
 “Babe, I can feel you coming.” He groans loudly, and he comes inside me. He moves in and out of me slowly as I come out of the haze of my orgasm. He props himself up on his elbows, still inside me, and strokes the hair back off my face.
 
 “Wow!” I say breathlessly, “That’s more like it.”
 
 “What do you mean?” his brows furrowing into a frown.
 
 “My own, do-it-yourself orgasms do not come close to that one.” I can't believe I blurted that out.
 
 “What?” he rasps
 
 “I mean… well… you made me wait for ages, and I was turned on.”
 
 “You’ve been touching yourself? Thinking about me?”
 
 I smack his shoulder lightly. “Of course I was thinking about you, and yes, touching myself, but I have help too.” I smile bashfully at him.
 
 “What kind of help?”
 
 “I have a vibrator... single girl, and all that. A girl has needs.”
 
 “Fuck. I swear I'm getting hard again, and I'm still inside you. You gonna show me?”
 
 “What? No way!”
 
 “Hmm... we’ll see about that. I meant it, you know, I'm in love with you, babe, you’re all I think about . . . you own me.”
 
 I own him.
 
 At this moment, I've never been so happy apart from the day I gave birth to Jessica.
 
 I cup his face in my hand and trace his eyebrow with my thumb. “When I first met you and I had a crush on you, I thought I had true feelings for you - I realise now that I didn’t even know you. Now that I've gotten to know you, I'm so head over heels in love with you that I can’t think of anything else. I'm so happy.”
 
 He slides out of me and eases himself off me “I hate that we wasted all this time because I was such a dickhead.”
 
 I shake my head, “You can't say that - we wouldn’t have Jess and Lucia – and I wouldn’t change that for anything, these things happen for a reason.”
 
 He shrugs, “Yeah, you're right. Still, we have a lot of time to make up for, not mentioning the fact that for the past fortnight I've had a constant hard-on every time I thought of you. I'm going to make love to you now, then I'm going to fuck you, then we’re going to get you cleaned up so that I can eat you in the shower, when we get out your gonna go down on me, and then you’re gonna show me what you do with your power tools” My mouth drops open, “and I'm going to make love to you again. Once that’s done, we’ll do it all over again.”
 
 My eyes widen at the thought, and he chuckles - I won’t be walking anywhere tomorrow.
 
 He holds my hips and pulls me on top of him so that I'm straddling him. I reach and pull the gown off over my head and throw it to the floor as he guides himself into me, ready to go again. I ride him slowly at first, speeding up when we both near climax.