“Tell me what you like,” Alix muttered against Grace’s mouth.
It was impossible to think while Alix rolled her thumb over Grace’s nipple. While she ran her palm over the curve of Grace’s hip like she appreciated its reckless nature. While she gripped her thick thigh hard like she couldn’t wait to worship her body as soon as Grace released her from their kiss.
“Just touch me.” Grace’s throat was so dry and her body pulled so tight. “If you just get in the neighborhood of the right spot, I’m going to come.”
Alix smirked against her swollen lips. “Yeah? That turned on, huh?” She made circles with her thumb on the inside of Grace’s thigh.
It was almost cute how Alix thought she was going to tease her. How Alix labored under the delusion that she’d be in charge just because she was physically on top.
“Are you going to make me take matters into my own hands?” Grace’s question was dripping with conviction.
Immediately recognizing that it wasn’t an empty threat, Alix cursed. “Where did you come from?”
Alix swallowed Grace’s response with a kiss. The moment her tongue touched hers, Alix’s fingers discovered just how badly she wanted her.
“Fuck, Grace. You’re so wet,” Alix said with the pain of enduring a broken femur.
Wrapping one arm around Alix’s waist, Grace tipped her head back. The sensation of Alix indulging in her arousal, of her spreading it from her entrance to her clit in long, agonizing circles was almost enough to kill her. She couldn’t be the most aggrieved party. Grace had to retaliate.
“That’s how I’ve been every time we’ve kissed,” she admitted. “I’ve had to sleep next to you like that?—”
Alix cut her off with a kiss, handing Grace the victory without even trying. The messier and more unfocused Alix’s kiss turned, the more on-target her skillful fingers became.
“Faster,” Grace demanded, desire pounding so hard and desperate to escape.
“Noplease?” Alix teased against her mouth, but she didn’t hesitate to speed up.
Blunt fingernails digging into Alix’s back was the only sign she could give her that she’d found the perfect pace. Breaking their kiss, Grace’s body flooded with unbearable heat. It was all she could do not to scream, but then Alix’s mouth was on her chest, leaving her own mark while she pushed Grace to the edge.
Grace wanted Alix to do it harder. To make it hurt. To make it impossible not to carry her away on her skin. In her body. In her heart.
Tearing at the sheets, Grace was so close. She rocked her hips in rhythm with Alix’s quick pace.
“Kiss me while I?—”
Alix covered her mouth with hers, tongue so deep in her mouth it was obscene. Obscene and hot and exactly what Grace needed to come so hard her lungs squeezed shut.
Despite Grace’s frantic rocking, Alix didn’t lose her place. Biceps flexing, she drew out another orgasm like it was effortless. Like Grace didn’t usually need a vibrator and so much concentration to come. Like she’d already known her body. Studied it. Memorized it.
Resolve unrelenting, Alix whispered filthy encouragement when she dipped her fingers into Grace’s entrance. When she asked entirely too politely for what Grace needed her to just fucking take. When she filled her with two fingers and made good on her promise to fuck her with an absolutely desperate need.
Over and over Alix made up for all the times neither of them had been brave enough to risk their friendship. When they’d been too afraid of losing to consider what they might gain.
When Grace reached between their slick bodies to stop Alix from trying to kill her, Alix pulled out of her gently. Hot and sweaty, Grace should have reached for a water bottle, but she pulled Alix flush on top of her instead.
“That was amazing,” Grace rasped, throat raw.
Alix moistened her lips. “You’re amazing.”
Wrapping her arms around Alix, she kissed her shoulders, her cheek, her lips. When she looked up into her soft eyes and completely enamored expression, Grace’s heart thrummed with an impossible question.
How the hell am I supposed to say goodbye now?
Chapter Twenty-Eight
ALIX
Morning camethe way snow often did: quiet, steady, everywhere at once.
