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“Not yet. Bedroom. Over here,” Kim prompted.

They tossed remaining items of clothing along the way and dropped onto the bed in a breathless heap, arms locked around each other and their legs tightly entwined.

“Yes,” Cody gasped. “Like this.”

Kim went with her, rocking her hips to the languid rhythm she established. Staring into her eyes, catching waves of rolling emotions, was both surprisingly erotic and ruthlessly intimate. It occurred to Kim that it was a first for her. She had never allowed a partner to look so deep into her before.

“You make me feel so naked,” she murmured.

“You are naked,” Cody grinned, and her eyes sparkled.

“How did we end up like this?”

“I’m not sure. I love that we did.”

“Yes… Me too.”

Kim kissed her, loving the sweet, clean taste of her mouth. The way Cody fondled her breasts only inflamed the hunger she felt. She trailed her fingers over her stomach, her tight abdomen, to settle possessively on her swollen clitoris.

“Oh… Fuck! Kim…”

Cody’s pleading gasp almost catapulted Kim over the edge; she was that close. But she held back and started to stroke her. Rubbing the hard little nub between her two fingers, pressing gently. Cody shook and trembled from the touch, but she also endured marvelously. Her face was burning. She was breathing hard. Eyes closed, and with her eyelids fluttering violently, there was no doubt as to the intensity of her experience.

“I could come just from looking at you,” Kim exclaimed.

“I’m going to. Kim…”

“Look at me,” Kim said urgently. “Please, Cody.”

She was the one pleading for that connection now… And as Cody opened her eyes wide and locked that feverish gaze onto hers, Kim almost lost it again. No fantasy sexual encounter she ever had in the privacy of her own mind was as hot and loadedas this one was turning out to be. She grabbed a handful of her lover’s hair with her free hand and kissed her hard and rough as the shaking intensified. Cody managed to slide a hand between their slick bodies, and she found her, matching her caresses stroke for stroke. Within seconds, they fell together in the all-consuming fire.

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Later, much later, Cody lay in her arms, catching her breath as she recovered from yet another ripping orgasm. It was number three, as she recalled. As for what time of day or night it may be or what planet she was on, she had lost track of that a long time ago. Glancing up and catching Kim staring fixedly at the ceiling, she pressed a soft kiss under her jaw.

“Are you okay?”

The question earned her a blink and a dazed look, followed by a slow-spreading grin.

“I feel like I discovered sex for the first time,” Kim stated. “That’s how good it was. How are you doing?”

“Destroyed, in the best way. Loved. I—”

Cody’s voice broke on the last word.What the hell did I just say to her?Taken aback at her own words and the veracity of the statement, she stopped abruptly. Tears rose with another hard wave of emotion, too quick for her to contain or hide.

“Hey, hey…” Kim shifted on her side to better embrace her, and also to hold her gaze. “It’s alright. Any way you feel is okay with me.”

Cody swallowed, brushed at the tears, and managed a brief smile. “Thanks. I’m fine.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. Kim…”

“Mm?”

As her lover patiently waited, Cody took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

“Look,” she murmured. “We’re past holding back on each other now, right?”