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“I can be anything you want me to be, baby.”

“See, now you sound like a very different character. I’m thinking Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.” Anna smirked. “You actually sound a lot like her. That sexy American accent of yours. God, I love that I can say that so openly now.”

Hayley threw back her head, laughing. “I’ll take it.” She opened the bottle of champagne, poured out two glasses and handed one to Anna. “Cheers.”

The champagne tasted perfect and hit the spot. The bubbles went straight to Anna’s head.

Hayley moved closer, sliding her hands around Anna’s waist.

Anna picked up one of the ornate chocolates, wanting to see Hayley enjoy one before her. “Would you like a chocolate?”

“Yes please.” Hayley opened her mouth.

Anna gently placed the chocolate on Hayley’s tongue. Hayley chewed and moaned in pleasure, holding Anna’s eyes the entire time. She was such a flirt. “You cannot do that in the cold light of day.”

“What?”

Anna leant on the desk and pulled Hayley onto her, dangerously close to the exact right spot. “You can’t make those noises and those eyes at me.”

“Not my fault. You taste one.”

Hayley picked a chocolate out and placed it in between Anna’s lips. Anna bit into it, making a similar noise as the sweet taste hit her tongue.

Hayley raised a very sexy eyebrow.

“Okay. You’re forgiven,” Anna said. “They are very good.”

“I love your mouth.” Hayley lightly brushed her thumb along Anna’s lower lip. “I can’t get enough of it.”

“I’m still eating.”

“I’m not sorry.”

Anna laughed.

Hayley sat down on the edge of the bed, watching her.

“Yes?”

“Nothing. Just looking at you.”

Anna put down the next chocolate she was about to eat.

Hayley stretched her arms back on the bed, baring her neck and chest.

Anna was pulled towards her. At the foot of the bed, she reached down and caressed Hayley’s neck, brushing some strands of hair back over her shoulders. Anna pulled her in close for a hug, so that Hayley’s head was in between her breasts. Hayley nuzzled into her, placing her ear on Anna’s sternum. They stayed like that for some time, just hugging each other and being together.

“I can hear your heartbeat,” Hayley said.

“That’s embarrassing.”

Hayley looked up into Anna’s eyes. She was so vulnerable and so open. Anna had never seen quite such a look in Hayley’s eyes before. It spoke of a connection that went beyond what either of them possibly understood. Anna bent over and kissed her on the lips. She lingered at Hayley’s mouth, gently brushing her lips against hers. Anna moved to Hayley’s cheek, her neck, and then kissed the top of her chest, under her collar bone.

Hayley rubbed Anna’s sides and moaned a little. She dug her fingers into Anna a little harder than Anna was expecting.

Something had changed in Hayley since they’d started sleeping together but Anna didn’t want to let herself hope that the change was because she too was falling in love. Hope hadn’t been kind to Anna when it came to Hayley. Wasn’t it precisely because she no longer hoped that things could work out between them that something was actually happening?

Shaking those thoughts from her head, Anna exhaled and came back to the present. Anna kissed Hayley’s collar bone then back up her neck, pausing at her pulse point. She wanted to kiss Hayley all over, to run her tongue over her skin and make the most delicious of connections. She’d been thinking about it non-stop lately. Anna hadn’t gone down on Hayley yet. She was too scared of it not going well so had shied away. Desire and fear together were funny sometimes.