“Chay,” he murmured, squeezing her gently.

She wiggled in his arms and buried herself further beneath the covers. Her arse pressed up against his dick and it went from an early morning chub to boner in two seconds.

God, they didn’t have time for that.

“Babe,” he said more firmly, shaking her a little.

“It’s too early.”

“We slept nine hours.”

Chaya rolled over, thank God, although the sight of her nipples caused the same blast of heat to rush through him. “We did?”

“The thing I need to go see is in ninety minutes. It’s a thirty-minute drive so we have an hour. Options include breakfast, shower, or you let me show you just how happy I am that I got to wake up with you in my arms.”

Chaya smiled sleepily. “What happens if you show me how happy you are in the shower? It would be nice to eat breakfast here, but it’s not the end of the world if we need to pick up a bacon bap from Costa.”

Ben grinned. One of the joys of knowing each other for so long was that she was happy to know him when he was a mechanic. Sure, he could afford places like this now, but they’d both always be as happy with a bacon bap as an a la carte breakfast. “I like the multi-tasking.” He climbed out of bed with a raging hard-on, walked to the bathroom, and then turned the shower on to warm up. “Get your arse in here.”

Chaya sauntered in. He’d seen her first thing in the morning a million times. Dark hair always messy and smushed, usually, to the right side of her face. But what he hadn’t seen was her doing the exact same walk as she yawned, only naked.

“It really is impossible to get my dick under control around you.” He opened his arms and Chaya walked straight into them, pulling her hair up into a bun on top of her head before fisting her hand against his chest.

“Then why did you turn me down so many times before?”

The question was softly spoken.

He placed his palms on Chaya’s shoulders. “It’s not a fair question, Chay. You were ready for you and me to have sex. But you weren’t ready for the consequences of us having a relationship. You wanted to see what it would be like with me, but you also still wanted to marry someone Jewish. And I didn’t want to be a steppingstone on the way tothatguy. I’d rather have only ever been your best friend than an ex-lover. But none of that means there weren’t times when you turned me on, or when I had to focus on us being friends.”

“I’m sorry,” she said, looking away from him.

“Hey.” He tipped her chin with his finger. “We’re here now. And as Nan says, we’re always where we are supposed to be. It just took us a little while longer than some to get here, yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“Now, get in that shower and get soapy. I want to see if bubbles running over your tits are as hot as I remember it.”

Her laughter echoed around the bathroom as steam began to surround them. Chaya stepped in first, and indulging his voyeuristic tendencies, he leaned back against the sink and watched. Knowing she played to an audience, Chaya turned to face him as she dipped beneath the spray, without soaking her hair. Within minutes, she had soaped up her skin, and, yeah, watching the bubbles run down over her chest was even better than he remembered.

Unable to sit, he palmed himself firmly, stroking his cock as he watched her rinse the bubbles away.

With both eyes on him, she slid her palm between her legs.

“Face the wall,” he instructed, grinning as she did what he asked. When he stepped up behind her, he slapped her arse gently. “Fuck, I love it when you just do as I ask.”

Reaching between them, he guided himself to her already glistening entrance. He eased himself into her, withdrew, then sank home hard.

“Ben,” she gasped, and he placed one arm around her, gripping her breast as he thrust into her.

It was raw and real. Desperate.

He wanted her, intended to take her.

“This okay?” he said gruffly.

“Better than okay.” She slammed her palms onto the tile, pushing back against him.

He bent his knees a little and fucked her. Water sprayed over them, and he pushed his hair back from his face so he could watch his dick slide in and out of her. Best fucking view in the world.