Page 35 of Into the Light

I knewwhere I was before I even opened my eyes. Ellie’s signature vanilla scent, now mixed with her own musk that I’d now die for, hit my nose as consciousness flooded through me.

My arms still wrapped around her body. I felt her soft skin and her lush curves under my palms. I pried one eye open and saw her brown hair splayed across my chest. A patchwork quilt covered our bottom halves but her breasts were still bare, pressing against my clothed abdomen. I’d have given anything right now to go back in time and take my shirt off before falling asleep, just so I could feel her skin against mine.

She stirred and turned her head to look at me, her eyes still filled with sleep.

“Hi.” It was a soft greeting, a whisper and a smile, that melted the steel cage around my heart.

“Hey.”

She blinked a few times, and then sat up suddenly. Her tits bounced with the movement, and I wasn’t a good enough man to look away. My jeans tightened around my dick.

“Oh my god.” She clapped one hand over her mouth, and the other over her chest, her cheeks reddening, and her eyes wide.

“What’s the matter?”

“You—we—oh my god.” Her voice was growing frantic and rose an octave.

“What? Do you regret it? Oh my god, Ellie, I thought you wanted to.” Did I misread the situation? I stood up from the bed, feeling sick. My head spun with memories of last night. “I’m so sorry. Holy fuck, I’m sorry.”

“No, Raf, stop.” I turned to look at her, my stomach sitting somewhere around my feet. “It’s nothing like that. I’m just embarrassed because you went down on me and I passed out from it.”

A deep breath wooshed out of me, the relief palpable as I bent forward for a moment, my hands on my thighs.

“Jesus, you scared me.” And then I laughed. A loud, raucous guffaw that came out of me so purely, that it made me laugh even harder.

“I’m mortified!” She wrapped the quilt around her, and burrowed her head underneath it so all I could see was an Ellie-shaped patchwork mound on the bed. And that made it even worse. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d laughed so hard. It was a joyous feeling, but I tried to tone it down because Ellie was not having it.

“Raf shut up!” She yelled from underneath her quilt, which only made the laughs come stronger. I took some deep breaths.

Eventually I calmed down and sat back on the bed next to her.

“I’m serious, you rocked me to sleep with oral. I didn’t even get to reciprocate, I was fucking comatose! Oh my god.”

“Ellie, come here.” I wrapped my arms around the mound and scooted her closer to me. “Let me see you.”

She slowly slid the quilt down to show her reddened face and messy hair. And fuck, she was adorable and sexy and the most beautiful creature I’d ever seen all at once.

I leaned forward and pressed my lips to hers in a chaste kiss that I’d hoped showed my intentions. I wasn’t going anywhere. I broke it off and leaned my forehead against hers.

“Ellie, last night was fucking magical. I could do that—without reciprocation—every night of my life and never get enough of it. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to do that. To doanythingwith you.”

Her big blue eyes looked up at me and I backed up to see them clearly. I’d never get tired of those eyes.

“Really?” she asked.

“I promise.”

“It’s still embarrassing, though.”

“Nah, that’s legendary. My oral skills made you come so hard you went comatose. That’s lifetime bragging rights.”

“Don’t you dare tell a soul.” We laughed, but then reality hit us both at the same time. If we were doing this, we’d need to tell Sam, and then he might want to kill me. I’m sure she could see my concern all over my face. “Don’t. You’re stressing about it, I know you are.”

“I mean, yeah.”

“Do you want me, though? Was last night just a fluke? Tell me now, because I can’t handle the hot and cold thing anymore, not after what we did together.”

I pulled her onto my lap and ran my hands along her body. The body I’d spent years dreaming about. The body I could now touch.

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