Page 45 of Chasing Gold, Catching Her

“Interesting…” Tora looked down at it thoughtfully for exactly two seconds. “We’re taking it.”

The consultant nodded immediately.

“Anything else?” he asked, glancing between them.

Tora looked around the shop.

“I wanted to try that new rabbit, the blue one.”

The consultant turned at once toward the center display. There, under the brightest lights in the entire shop, stood some new model surrounded by so many fascinated couples that it looked almost like the main exhibit of the entire store.

“Oh, that one is wonderful,” he said enthusiastically. “You can adjust the size, there are different vibration settings, heating mode, cooling mode, automatic lubrication, everything. It stimulates from inside and outside at the same time, and if you want, there are extra attachments too, six of them, different shapes, different textures…”

“So basically,” Alisa muttered, staring at it suspiciously, “it’s some kind of fucking transformer.”

“Well… you could say that.” The consultant grinned, and beside her Tora nodded seriously.

“We’ll take that too. And add some fruit-flavored lubricant.”

“Of course. Which flavor would you like?”

“Do you have a preference, babe?” Tora asked quietly, leaning close enough for her breath to brush Alisa’s ear.

Goosebumps ran instantly down Alisa’s neck.

“Is there a raspberry one?” she asked, staring stubbornly down at the counter instead of at Tora.

“Of course. Very popular.”

“We’ll take that,” Alisa said quickly. “And a strawberry one too.”

“Perfect.”

The consultant disappeared toward the register, and Tora turned to Alisa with a broad, almost unbearably fond smile.

“Are you nervous?”

“Maybe a little,” Alisa admitted, swallowing.

“Hey.” Tora touched her hand lightly. “You won gold today. That means every wish comes true, remember? You only have to tell me.”

She looked so bright and excited, as if she could hardly wait to get back to the hotel, and suddenly Alisa realized that if she did not say it now, she never would.

“I just…” Alisa pressed her lips together. “Well…”

Then she leaned closer and whispered in Tora’s ear.

“I’ve never… done that before. Not really. Not except for your fingers.” The words came out so quietly that she barely heard them herself.

Alisa pulled back immediately and looked at Tora, waiting for her to laugh, or look disappointed, or worse, look at her the way everyone else always did whenever Alisa turned out to be not enough.

But Tora only went very still. The smile disappeared from her face, she suddenly she looked completely serious.

Alisa was afraid that Tora would turn around and leave, that she would say that Alisa was a failure because she had never had a penetrative sex, but Tora just nodded calmly.

“Yeah, I remember you said it was your first time, but I thought it was your first time with a woman, but now I understand,” she said quietly. “Then we’ll start small.”

And that was all.