Straddling his hips, Rose reached into Keys’ pocket where she knew he kept a Swiss Army knife. Keys watched her in stunned amazement as Rose cut through his “One Ring to Rule Them All” shirt with the small scissors and revealed his chest. As Keys snorted out the gummy worm, Rose lifted his glasses off his face. She tossed both the knife and his glasses onto one of the desk chairs that wasn’t too far away from them. Picking up the base of the fountain, she did a quick temperature check to ensure it wasn’t scalding, and then poured the heated contents over Keys’ bare chest.
“I’m not sure if I’m regretting my life’s choices or loving them,” Keys mused at the river of chocolate flowing all down his front and sides.
“I warned you,” Rose told him before tossing the base. There’d still been more inside, but she felt she’d dumped enough to make her point. Scooting down his legs, Rose licked from his cocoa-covered navel all the way to his pecs. Even aware that her face, hair, and front were as coated in the sugary goodness as her tongue, Rose brought herself up until she was over Keys’ face.
“Definitely loving them,” Keys confirmed. Not deterred by the mess she’d made, Keys reached up and touched her hair—before he flipped them on the candy-scattered floor.
“Ow! Ow! Ow!”
Keys immediately sat up at her exclaim. “What? What is it? What happened?”
Rose reached beneath her back and pulled out a handful ofjawbreaker candies. “It was like they were trying to break my back, not my jaw.”
Keys reached down and grabbed his jeans over his groin. “I got something here that will break your jaw.” Then immediately, he winced. “Yeah, I heard it. Don’t ever tell anyone I said that.”
Laughing, Rose gently chucked the jawbreaker candies at his chocolate-lathered chest. Some, to her further amusement, stuck before gravity forced their slow descent down his abdomen. Both Keys and Rose watched as they hit the seam of his pants before continuing their way to the piezoelectric-sensor floor.
“I have no idea why that was so mesmerizing,” Rose admitted.
Keys shrugged, but clearly had no intention of repeating the scene. He reached over her and cleared the floor of all candies before laying her back down. “Wait, I changed my mind,” he said, lifting her up into a seated position. “I want your shirt and bra off first.”
Rose lifted her arms in invitation. Her clothing—well, both of their clothing actually—was ruined by the chocolate, anyway. Keys got her shirt off and then turned his attention to her bra. Rose expected him to struggle with the clasp, so her jaw practically hit the floor when he expertly reached around her back and undid the hooks without even having to look.
“What the fuck, Keys? Who the hell have you been practicing that on?” she gasped out as he brought the straps down her arms. “Wait, do you have like a collection of mannequins inside your room where you practice taking off women’s clothing?”
Keys’ eyes went wide as his cheeks brightened. “What? No! I swear!”
Rose could only hold her suspicious expression another few seconds before she smiled at him. “No, seriously. That was impressive. I’ve been wearing bras for a decade, and even I can’t get them off that fast. You might be my new de-bra-er.”
Keys’ embarrassment did not wane as she hoped it would. “I mean, yeah… I could… I could do that.”
* **
Keys cleared his throat.“Is there anything off-limits? Anything you don’t like to do?”
As much as Keys did not want to hear any details of her past relations with men, he still needed to know what she was comfortable doing and not doing.
Rose shook her head as she shrugged. “Honestly, I don’t know. I might have a son, but I’m actually not that experienced. Not inthisanyway.” He understood immediately that she meant the intimacy between them, their connection and their unbreakable bond. “So in that regard, I’m as virginal as you.”
He highly doubted that, but also appreciated what she was trying to say. “How about this?” he offered. “We figure out what we like together. Is there anything you don’t want to try or specifically want to?”
“Well, I’ve always been interested in pegging…” At Keys’ horrified expression, Rose laughed, “I’m kidding! Kidding! Maybe,” she added offhandedly. “No, seriously. I just want to be withyou, Keys. I want to experience what it’s like to be with the man I love. If you do something I don’t like, and even something I do, I’ll tell you. I promise.”
His heart still racing from the near heart attack she’d given him, Keys nodded slowly. “Same. I just want to make this good for you.”
Lifting her arm, she touched his chin. “Good forus.”
But Keys shook his head. “I might not have done this before, but I’ve paid attention. I listen to my brothers’ conversations, and I know that your pleasure matters more than mine. I don’t come until you do.”
An odd expression crossed Rose’s face. “That’s… I mean, I don’t want you to set unrealistic expectations for your first time. I might not come—and that’s fine. I just want to be with you.”
Keys frowned down at her, eyebrows nearly touching. “I don’t understand. Why wouldn’t you come?”
“Look,” her cheeks flushed under the chocolate coating her skin, “I just… Women… Fuck,” she lowered her hand from his chin. “It’s just that I’ve…never… Not with a man at least,” she added like a clarifier. “I don’t think penetration does it for me, but it’s been so long that maybe that’s not true anymore.”
Keys stared down at her, anger on her behalf warring with arousal at having her half naked under him. He wasn’t sure what she was trying to accomplish with her statement. Maybe relieve him of the pressure of performing? He didn’t know and he didn’t care. “I don’t give a shit what happened in the past, Rose. This is now and this is us. I willneverleave you hanging or seek out my own pleasure while ignoring yours. I don’t give a damn if it takes me all night, you will come before I do. It is my life’s mission to learn your body and know it better than my own—and trust me when I say, I have spenta lotof time touching myself.”
It took Rose a moment to smile. “All night? Need I remind you that we have a child who will wake up at some point looking to be fed?”
