“Why would you say that?” she demanded, her voice quavering. Her heart couldn’t take it.
“Because it’s the truth. I tried to stay away from you, I swear I did. But you…you consume me. All those things you talked about last night—the incessant chatter, the desire to earn what you’ve got, the corny jokes, and, my God, your obsession with snacks—I love them three times over. You enrapture me. I know I don’t deserve you. And I’mnotasking for your forgiveness. You can do better than me. But you deserve to know how fucking rad you truly are.”
Tears started to stream down Miri’s face. “And what if I wantyou?”
He shook his head. “I put you in danger.”
“Hey, I thoughtIwas the one putting us in danger,” she said with a smile. “Don’t try stealing credit.”
But he didn’t smile back. “I’m serious, Pringles. I hurt you.”
“And he hurt you!”
“This isn’t a one-to-one exchange. My dad’s actions don’t excuse mine.”
“You are not responsible for your father,” she proclaimed. “And I’m not excusing anything. But I’mtrustingmy heart because…”
She paused, and the room filled with steam as he stared at her. His chest rising and falling. Heavy with his breath, as if he anticipated her words.
“Because what, Pringles?”
“Because I…I’m falling for you, too.”
The words came out of nowhere. Words that Miri had never spoken before. But somehow, after everything, it felt right to say them to him. Yes, she wanted answers. But even more, she wanted him. She wanted his love. His warmth. His comfort. And perhaps it made her a fool for wanting all those things. But when she looked into his eyes? When she saw his face…she knew she wasn’t the only one who had been deceived.
All he’d ever wanted was happiness. And all she wanted was him.
Without hesitation, Rafa pulled her into his arms. He pressed her back against the door as he pressed his lips to hers, taking her in. He pulled her wet shirt over her head and it dropped to the floor with a slap. Their hands fumbled, removing the rest of her clothes. His towel fell to the floor. Whenthey’d completely disrobed her, they stumbled backward into the shower. The warm spray hit their skin but couldn’t break their lips from each other. She moaned as his lips pulled from her mouth and dragged down her neck. His hand moved between her legs. Cupping her mound, already wet from more than the water. He moved farther down her body until he was kneeling on the floor of the shower, his face level with the apex of her thighs. The water from the shower head pounded against his back. He looked up at her. Those eyes told her exactly what she needed to know.
He drove his mouth between her legs. Slowly licking her soft, slippery folds. Tasting her. Sending enraptured missiles firing throughout her body. With one hand steadying her, he used the other to spread her legs, bringing one leg over his shoulder. He opened his mouth, placing it over her opening. He moaned into her as he lapped at her clit. She grabbed his hair, and he looked up at her once more. Feasting upon her with both his eyes and his mouth.
For a moment, he took his mouth away. And she missed it. She missed the feel of his warmth. Of his rough, ragged, yet talented tongue. But he mercifully returned shortly after, this time bringing his fingers to her entrance and pushing inside her as his mouth returned to her clit, licking it with soft flicks. Faster, faster as his fingers pumped in and out of her. Steadying herself with one hand against the shower wall and the other on his head, she cried out as she came, squeezing tightly around his fingers. Letting the orgasm wash throughout every inch of her body.
Slowly, he removed his fingers and stood before her. And then he kissed her with that mouth. She tasted herself upon him, still wanting more.
They traded positions, now with his back against the wall, and the shower spray hittingherback. His hands cupped her ass, kneading her flesh, as she lowered her hand between them and wrapped it tightly around his cock. He moaned in her mouth as she stroked him. But she wanted him to feel everything that she’d felt when he’d made her come. She lowered herself to his erection. With his back flat against the shower wall, he stared down at her. His chest heaved as he watched her drag her tongue in long, slow licks across the entire length of his shaft. She cupped his balls as she circled her tongue along his cock’s head before putting him in her mouth.
“Oh fuck,” he said, bracing himself against the shower wall.
His head tipped back. But she didn’t take her eyes off him, watching him writhe as she pleasured him. She took his length in her mouth. Slowly increasing the speed. With one hand on the shaft, stroking along with her mouth, the other hand massaging his balls, she watched him come undone. He stared down at her again. Staring into her eyes.
“Fuck. This feels too good. I’m gonna come if you don’t stop.”
That’s what she wanted, though. She wanted him to feel good. She wanted him to know that he deserved to feel good. She increased her speed. And he moaned once more before stopping her.
“No,” he said. “I want you. I want all of you.”
She took her mouth from him and then turned off the water before standing to his level. He kissed her once more, then lifted her body, wrapping her legs around his waist as he carried her out into the main room. Their bodies were dripping wet. Sliding against each other as he carried her before setting her on the clean, crisp white bed sheets. He kissed her once more, and then he looked into her eyes.
“I want to make love to you, Miri,” he said. “Is that okay?”
She nodded.
“I want to hear you say it,” he said.
“I want you to make love to me. I want to feel every inch of you. I want to know you, Rafa. All of you.”
He smiled. Then got up off the bed and walked over to his baggage. He reached inside a zipper on the side pocket and pulled out a condom before returning. Rafa opened the condom wrapper and sheathed his cock with smooth precision. He then kneeled in front of her, open and waiting for him.
