Exploding—
“Have Icaught your attention, squire?”
Healmost looked away, wanting to change the subject, wanting to let the shame winbecause it would be familiar and safe and easy.But, in that moment, somethingstopped him.He kept his gaze centered on her breasts.
Certaintypierced through the fear.
“Yes,”Isaac said.“It has.”
Shehummed from her throat.“Truly, now?Feel free to be specific.”
The wayher fur had been soft and warm in his face.The way her flesh had bouncedagainst him.The hard muscle, the soft fat, the tightness, the weight, thecurves.
Theheat.
Thesmell.
Thesounds.
“Idon’t know where to begin,” he said.
Shecocked her hip, shadows rolling across her chest.“Am I making you lose yourwords, Isaac?”
Heexhaled.“Yes.”
“Haveyou been thinking about me since the chapel?”
He wason his feet.“Yes.”
“Do youwanna fuck me?”
Hemoved toward her like a runaway carriage.
Justbefore impact, she pushed him away, holding him out by the length of her arm.He pressed his shoulder deep into the pads of her hand, remembering the waythey had gripped him in the chapel.
“Isaac,”she said.“You sure you want this, now?”
“Morethan anything else in my life.”
Sheblinked down at him.
“Wasthat too honest?”he asked.
“Look,”she said, taking his other shoulder in hand.“There’s no pressure on you.I’mjust bein’ a tease, cause it’s how I am.Don’t want you feeling obligated tothis.There’s no ...expecting of me, to you, to be a certain way.You knowmy meaning?”
“Zaria,”he said.
“Aye?”
“Idon’t think you understood me before.I liked what happened,between us.I liked it so much that it made me rethink everything I ever knewabout life.”The words came rushing out of him.“I want to fuck you.”
For amoment, she looked at him carefully, her slitted eyes searching through hisexpression.He did not look away.Beside them, the fire crackled and rose.
“Alright,”she said, not letting him go.“If you’re sure.”
“I amsure.”
“I seethat.”
