Like last night, she’s already wet. I brush my thumb over her leggings, pressing against her heat. She thrusts her hips in rhythm with my touch, letting her head fall back and her eyes drift shut.
“Is this okay?” I ask roughly.
“Mmhm,” she murmurs. When she briefly opens her eyes, she appears half in another world. She grabs the collar of my shirt, tugging my mouth down to hers. Just before our lips touch, she whispers, “More. I need more. Please.”
“Tell me if you want me to stop,” I say.
Her only response is to thrust her hips harder against me. The frigid and distant Cora I’ve seen over the past few weeks has evaporated, replaced with someone whose vast hunger nearly matches my own. She claws at my neck, and I slip my hand into her leggings.
She’s wet. Warm. Perfect.
“Gods, Cora,” I whisper, letting her name drag from deep within my lungs. I drop my head against her shoulder as I press into her tight heat. She writhes against me as I press deeper. Just one finger, then two.
The room is filled with our heavy breaths and the obscene sound of my finger fucking her cunt.
“Okay?” I ask again. I start to pull back to look at her, but she wraps her arms around my neck, pulling me closer.
“Don’t stop,” she begs. “Please, Elliot. I’m going to—I think I’m going to?—”
She breaks off, but there’s no question what she was going to say. I massage her clit with my thumb and kiss her neck, rubbing my cock against her leg. It’s ungodly euphoric, so blissful the world around us stops existing.
My thoughts blur. My movements jerk. There is nothingexcept me and this impossibly perfect woman coming beneath me.
She cries out a garbled version of my name, and I come hearing it. I fuck her through the end of her orgasm, leaving my hand in the beautiful mess between her thighs. I’ve never been particularly interested in eating a woman out, but right now, it’s all I can do to resist.
I want to claim every inch of this woman, and I vow to myself, I will. Someday, there will be no part of her I haven’t kissed, licked, devoured.
For now, I settle my hand between her thighs and kiss her mouth until I’m sure she must be tired of it. When I pull back though, her puffy lips curl into a smile. It’s soft, hesitant. The smile of someone accustomed to being knocked in the dirt.
“I don’t think I’ve ever sucked your cock,” she says. “If I have, it’s in one of my jars. You might have to talk me through it.”
“There is nothing I’d like more than your mouth on my cock,” I tell her. I brush my lips down her throat as I speak, relishing the trail of gooseflesh that follows. “But it’ll have to wait until next time.”
“Oh,” she says. Faint red decorates her cheeks. “Do we need to leave?”
“Not just yet,” I say, even though we probably should. I rotate onto my side, tugging her against me, until her ass is tucked against my already hardening cock. “I just need a minute before I can go again.”
“Did you actually?” she asks. She pushes onto her elbows, blush growing deeper as she notices my pants. The cum stain shows through the grey pants, but so does the outline of my cock. She looks long enough I laugh.
“Yes, I did,” I say. “You keep looking at me though, and I’ll be ready in no time.”
“Good,” she says. She quirks her lips into a quick smilebefore laying down again, her back pressed to my chest. I tug her hips, until I’m fully pressed against her firm ass.
Cora’s breathing slows and steadies until I’m sure she’s fallen asleep. I kiss the back of her head and wrap my arm across her middle, anchoring her to me.
“I missed you,” I say. “I’m not sure I know just how much, but I know I really fucking missed you, Cora.”
“Secora,” she says after a long pause. She takes my hand and cradles it against her chest. “You can call me Secora again.”
“Secora,” I whisper against her hair. “My Secora.”
22
EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE
CORA
Iknow better than to feel hope. I’ve spent the past twelve years warding away positivity like it’s a bad smell. I didn’t dare believe I would ever find myself here. Not here, staggering up the steep slope of a mountain, buthere, with Elliot keeping pace at my side.
