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He perched next to her on the bed. “How did you get mixed up in something like this?”
She said angrily, “How did you get mixed up in what you do?”
“It was pretty much against my will, actually.”
“Yeah, well, I went voluntarily down my road.”
“Then I’ll voluntarily go down that same road with you.”
“Why? Why help me?”
“I don’t get to help many people. When the chance comes I try not to miss it.”
Reggie’s anger faded and she touched his cheek. “Who was Anna?”
“A woman I cared for. I told you.”
“I’m sorry.”
“So am I.”
“I’m not Anna, Shaw.”
His eyes glimmered. “I know that. No one can be Anna.” He started to say something else but she covered his mouth with her hand.
She said, “Please. Don’t.”
He looked at her as Reggie’s hand slid from his mouth to his cheek.
“Reggie?”
She shook her head, stood, unzipped her dress, and stepped out of it. Reggie stood there in front of him in panties and bra. It was as though she was waiting for him to tell her to stop. Shaw said nothing, just looked at her. He finally put his hand on her hip, squeezed lightly. She pushed him flat on the bed and straddled him.
Reggie attacked his mouth, biting his lower lip and then kissing him on the neck and face before hungrily returning to his mouth, as they hastily worked their clothes off. There was energy and anger and desperation and even violence barely restrained as they went at one another.
Sweat dripped off them both as the Savoy’s new HVAC system largely failed to keep up with the mingled heat thrown from their energized coupling. They eventually collapsed into a crazy tangle, her hair in his eyes, his knee between her legs, her arm curved around his head. She gently rubbed his face, kissed it.
Shaw’s eyes were closed, his breathing slowly returning to normal.
“Seems like it was as long in between for you as it was for me,” she said, her lungs still heaving.
He disengaged from her and sat against the headboard.
“Did I say something wrong?”
“It was nothing you did, Reggie.”
She wrapped her body against him, curling one of his chest hairs with her finger. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just stay like this for a bit? Maybe a few years?”
“It would get old, don’t you think?”
“Actually, I’d really like to see for myself.”
I just don’t see that happening, thought Shaw.
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