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She nodded. I felt the movement of her head moving against my chest.
We lay there in silence for another minute, then got up to eat.
* * *
We had canned peaches and pears for breakfast. We didn’t say anything as we ate… but I did bring up something important as we finished.
“I don’t think we should stay here,” I said gently.
She nodded but didn’t look at me. “That’s probably a good idea.”
I searched the house and found a few cans of soup I added to my dwindling supply in the backpack. I also found a half-used tube of toothpaste in the bathroom. After we washed our mouths out and splashed our faces with cold water, we set off into the woods.
* * *
I didn’t make the same mistake twice. We kept moving, never spending more than one night in any location.
Sometimes there was electricity and hot water where we stayed, and we could take showers and have a hot meal. Sometimes there wasn’t, and we roughed it.
Lucia never complained.
She seemed lost in a haze of melancholy for several days and didn’t talk much. But she was very affectionate and took every opportunity to hug me and be near me.
I always kept an eye on her. I was worried about how she was handling the trauma of shooting the man at the barn…
And reliving the loss of her parents.
I asked her several times if she wanted to talk about anything, but she always said ‘no.’
However, she would always cuddle up next to me afterwards or hold my hand if we were walking.
I figured she was healing. I did my best to give her the space to do so.
At night, I would hold her in my arms. She was usually tired from hiking, so she would fall asleep quickly.
Sometimes she cried out, troubled by dreams… but mostly her sleep was peaceful.
We weren’t intimate during that time. I wanted to give her the chance to heal, so I didn’t try anything.
I’d been celibate since my father had died, mostly because of circumstances and my depression and grief over losing him. That had been fine. It was like my libido shifted into a much lower gear, and I could relieve things myself if I felt the urge.
But since I’d slept with Lucia, something primal had sparked deep inside me. She had awakened the beast inside me.
I’d had a taste of the best sex of my life – and I wanted more.
Now the longer I went, the more the pressure built up – and the more turned on I was by her beauty.
And her body.
Lying awake with her in my arms at night sometimes made my cock so hard it ached…
But I was careful not to pressure her.
After four nights of moving from cabin to cabin, I was concerned that maybe she no longer felt attracted to me… that perhaps telling me about her parents had somehow made her see me differently.
And then, on the fifth night, that changed.
I was lying in bed waiting for her to finish in the bathroom. We’d found a place with hot running water, and after a quick shower, I was lying in my boxer shorts.
