Nora points at Busy, then points toward Busy’s room.
I’m so nervous.
I haven’t been alone with a woman in so long.
I definitely haven’t been alone with a woman with Busy in the house.
I nod at Nora. I gently stand up and scoop Busy into my arms very carefully. Her body is heavy with exhaustion.
She is down for the count.
I take Busy into her room, slide her beneath her comforter, then kiss her forehead.
I close her door behind me and pray that she doesn’t wake up.
In the living room, Nora is waiting for me.
She took her hair out of her ponytail while I was gone, and her dark hair is now cascading down around her shoulders.
She is so incredibly beautiful.
I kneel down on the ground in front of her, my face pausing for just a moment before hers, and then my lips crash into her.
Our kiss is furious and unrelenting.
She wraps her legs around my hips and I simultaneously wrap my arms around hers. Then, in a swift move, I stand up, holding her tightly around me.
We break our kiss.
“Nora,” I tell her. “I want to bring you into my room and fuck all night long.”
She bites her bottom lip. “Judah, I wanted you from the moment I first saw you.”
I kiss her hard.
And even if this is a horrible idea, I lead her into my room anyway.
I need Nora and I need her now.
* * *
I lower Nora onto my bed. I’m not gentle with her, but I am not rough either. I am desperate for her. And she is reaching for me.
We each rip our clothes off.
And once my clothes are off, I realize I am standing naked in front of a woman for the first time in years.
“It’s… been a while,” I tell her, not wanting to kill our momentum, but wanting to be honest, too.
Nora lowers her lashes at me. “That’s okay. I don’t care. We can go slower, if you want.”
I shake my head, lowering myself over her. I whisper in her ear, “No, I don’t want to go slow with you. This first time may be… quick, but we have all night.”
Nora grabs a fistful of my hair in her hand. I feel a painful pleasure from it.
“Then fuck me like you mean it,” she tells me.
And she doesn’t have to ask me twice.