Page 30 of April (New Orleans #4)

L inden couldn’t believe that she was inside Asher. Her fingers were no longer moving in an attempt to make Asher come, but they were still inside her, feeling the warmth of her and the softness. There was nothing like this feeling in the world. She knew that now. Linden could’ve gone another few years of just having sex with first and second dates, but it never would’ve felt as good as this did. Asher’s hand was on her cheek. Her other one was on Linden’s back, running up and down it while her eyes were closed, her cheeks flushed from her orgasm. Asher looked happy in a way that Linden hadn’t ever seen her before, and she’d been the one to do that to her.

“I’m going to pull out now, okay?”

“What? No. Stay,” Asher said as she opened her eyes and stared up dreamily at Linden. “You feel so good there.”

“Okay,” Linden replied as she kissed her forehead. “But I’ll be right back. Well, not right back, but I’ll be back.”

“What?” Asher asked.

Linden kissed her quickly and lowered her body down Asher’s, keeping her fingers inside while she kissed Asher’s skin on her way down.

“Oh,” Asher let out, understanding now.

Linden smiled up at her as she situated herself between her legs, which Asher spread farther for her. She gave Asher a second to tell her that she didn’t want this, but when Asher said nothing, Linden licked her lips while she stared because Asher was more than ready for her.

“God, you’re so fucking sexy,” she said as she licked the inside of Asher’s thigh.

“I don’t know how much teasing I can take,” Asher told her when Linden repeated the action.

“No? I was just going to stay down here for a while and memorize every inch of your skin.”

“Can you maybe do that later?” Asher suggested in the most adorable way.

Linden smiled up at her and asked, “So, you want me to…”

“Yes,” Asher confirmed quickly.

Linden wanted to make her say more. She wanted to get Asher to tell her that she wanted to be licked and sucked, but she wasn’t sure if Asher was ready for that yet. Then again, Linden had almost just told Asher that she loved her when this was really only their third date, if it could even be called that because she’d gone to the wedding Asher was running, so it hadn’t been a planned date. She couldn’t just drop all of her feelings on Asher during their first time together, and it would be too much for her to expect Asher to return those three words she had been about to say. That was especially true given the fact that Asher was still moving away in a few months.

Linden refocused her mind on what she’d been about to do. With one last look up at Asher, who was staring down at her, waiting to see what Linden did, Linden licked her, and God, Asher tasted good. It took everything in Linden not to just suck on Asher’s clit to get her to come fast just so she could do that, but she wanted to make this last as long as she could. She licked Asher once more, gathering her desire for her on her tongue and letting her tongue move wherever it wanted as she slowly started to move her fingers inside Asher.

They’d never really been the kind of friends who talked specifics where sex was concerned. They’d only talked about whether it had been good, bad, or somewhere in between, mostly, but nothing about the acts involved. Linden had no idea how many men had done to Asher what she was doing now, but she did know that she would be the person who did it best. It wasn’t an ego thing. She just wanted to make sure that Asher knew how much she wanted her, how this wasn’t about Linden at all. This wasn’t even a prelude because Linden expected something else. They could fall asleep right after this, and Linden would still be turned on but wouldn’t care because she’d gotten to give Asher pleasure, and that was all that mattered.

“Linden…” Asher breathed out as Linden continued to lick her while applying just a little more pressure every time.

Her fingers moved slowly, not curling exactly but more just pushing in a little and pulling back a bit, hitting that wall right behind where her tongue was focused. The hope was that it would drive Asher crazy enough to give her an explosive orgasm, and when Asher’s hips began to lift a little, she also shifted her free hand under Asher’s body to allow herself better access and give Asher a better angle.

“Yes!” Asher cried out as her hips jerked.

‘Well, that had been a good idea,’ Linden thought to herself.

She licked harder and flicked her tongue over Asher’s swollen clit, and just when Asher jerked for a second time, Linden sucked.

“Oh, God!”

Linden moved her fingers in and out harder and a little faster, trying to match the rhythm with her fingers. When she shifted a bit, Asher’s right leg moved a little wider, and that seemed to do it. Asher yelled her name, and her hand was suddenly on the back of Linden’s head.

Linden sucked harder, her fingers began thrusting, and Asher went over the edge completely seconds later. Linden stayed down there, though, licking slowly and softly, letting Asher come down all the way, before she opened her eyes and looked up at the woman she loved.

Asher’s hair was an auburn fan on the pillow. Some of it was sticky with sweat against her forehead. Her cheeks were red, as was her neck and the spot between her breasts. One arm was flung over Asher’s head, and the other still had a hand in Linden’s hair, though its grip had loosened a little. Linden didn’t want to move. She wanted to stay here, in this moment, forever.

How had she been so stupid to not realize this sooner? How had she been such an idiot? She’d put Asher on a dating app. She’d helped her scroll through profiles. She could’ve lost her to a supermodel or to a woman named Emily because she hadn’t been able to figure it out. She’d almost never had what they had right now.

“Can you come up here?” Asher asked.

Linden didn’t want to move, but if Asher wanted her up there, she’d go. She shifted, keeping her fingers inside Asher at first, but when she hovered over her, she waited a beat before she slowly pulled them out, watching Asher’s expression tense and then relax as she did.

“How was–”

“So fucking good,” Asher interrupted. “Oh, my God, Linden.” She laughed. “ That’s how that’s supposed to be?”

Linden didn’t know how to answer that question, so she just leaned down and kissed Asher sweetly.

“With someone you…” Asher started but faded out. “With someone who means everything to you, it’s just…”

“Better?” Linden guessed.

“Yes,” Asher said with a smile. “You…” She shook her head. “I don’t know if I’ll be any good at that. I mean, what you just did broke me.”

“In a good way?” she asked hopefully, running a hand over Asher’s face.

Asher nodded and said, “In the best way.”

“We can work our way up to that, Ash. Or, you don’t ever have to do it to me. I’m honestly perfectly content right now.”

“Perfectly content? You mean you don’t…” Asher ran a hand up and down Linden’s back. “Do you not want to be touched? We’ve never really talked about this.”

“Oh, I want to be touched. I will happily be touched by you. I just meant that I get as much or more pleasure from what we just did as when I’m touched. I just did that with you , Asher. You looked so beautiful and peaceful. I mean, what’s better than giving someone you care about that ?”

“Well, I’m hoping what I’m about to do to you,” Asher said. “Can you roll over, or are you really always on top?”

Linden laughed and rolled off of her. Asher rolled onto her side and stared down at Linden’s body.

“You are so damn beautiful. Do you know that?” Asher asked as her hand moved over Linden’s skin.

“If I say yes, is that egotistical?”

Asher laughed and said, “Not if it’s true. And it’s definitely true. I could just stare at you all night.” Asher’s hand landed between Linden’s breasts. “How did it take me so long to figure out that I would love a woman’s body? Look at you; you’re perfect.”

“My head just grew three sizes, Ash,” Linden teased as she ran a hand through Asher’s hair.

Asher looked at her then and said, “I’m nervous again.”

“I’ve been nervous this whole time,” Linden replied. “We can just lie here.”

“I don’t want to do that.” Asher looked down between Linden’s legs. “I want to touch you.”

“Okay,” Linden said and spread her legs, letting Asher know that she could.

She continued to run her fingers through Asher’s long hair as she waited. Had hair ever been this soft? No, right? No hair had ever been this soft. But before she knew what was happening, her focus was pulled down because Asher’s fingers slid into her folds.

“Oh, fuck,” she said, unprepared.

Asher didn’t say anything. She just kept staring down at her own hand and watched, almost in awe, what it was doing. It was typical Asher: she didn’t do anything unless she could put her full attention on it. It used to be something that bothered Linden, who preferred to multi-task, but she’d never complain about it again because Asher was drawing slow circles around her clit, and Linden hadn’t realized until this moment how hard and ready she really was.

While Asher’s fingers continued to slide around, Asher shifted until she wasn’t resting her head more on her elbow but on her hand, and her arm was locked in position. She wanted a better view, Linden surmised. She wanted to really see what she was doing to Linden. Linden spread her legs wider for her and lifted her opposite leg a bit, causing Asher to lick her lips and get a little closer until she could stare down at her fingers sliding against Linden’s clit. When she licked her lips again, though, Linden about came. Her hips jerked, and Asher’s face turned serious and concentrated as if she was trying to figure out why they’d just done that.

Then, Asher shifted again until Linden could no longer play with her hair, and she watched her fingers more closely as she kissed Linden’s hip bone. Linden knew Asher had to be able to smell her from there, and she worried for an instant because Asher hadn’t ever done this with a woman, and if she pulled back, it could mean that she didn’t want to again. Instead, Asher lowered her mouth and pressed a kiss just above Linden’s clit, to Linden’s surprise.

“Ash,” she whispered.

But Asher was on the move again until she was kneeling between Linden’s legs, still watching her fingers slide up and down Linden’s length. When her blue eyes met Linden’s, they were darker than Linden had ever seen them, and they looked determined, too, as Asher’s fingers slipped inside her. Linden waited for her to pull them back out and push them in again, but she didn’t.

“What you just did to me; do you like that for you?” Asher asked in a deeper voice than Linden had expected.

“Yes,” she replied.

Asher nodded, considered something, and moved again until she was on her stomach, with her fingers still inside Linden. Holy shit! Asher was about to go down on her. Linden tried to brace herself because as much as she wanted this, there was a chance Asher would decide against it. It was her first time touching another woman, after all. Then, Asher’s free hand spread her apart, and she stared down at Linden, licking those sexy lips again before she lowered her mouth to Linden’s sex.

“Oh, my God!” Linden’s eyes closed on their own as Asher licked her.

She needed to open them, though, because she wanted to watch her. Asher was so sexy. Linden wanted to see those now-dark eyes and that auburn hair fanning out between her legs. But before she could open them, Asher’s fingers began to move, and Linden realized what she was doing. Asher was doing nearly the exact same thing to Linden that she’d done to her minutes ago. She might even be doing it better because Linden was already almost there.

“Babe, I’m going to come soon,” she said.

Asher mumbled something against her sex that Linden couldn’t make out, and her mouth seemed to turn hungry as her tentative licks had turned hard and fast before they turned again into tentative sucks. Asher then moaned against her, and Linden jerked because Asher was moaning as she sucked on her. God, that was now the sexiest thing she’d ever heard. She couldn’t say the sexiest thing she’d ever seen because her eyes were still closed.

Asher’s fingers moved inside her, deeper now as if she wanted to experience what it felt like to be inside a woman more than focusing on making Linden come, but it didn’t matter because Linden was coming. Her hips rose and fell. Asher moaned and sucked harder. Linden’s eyes opened for just a second, but she saw only auburn hair and a head moving up and down. Knowing that that was Asher’s head took her all the way over the edge, and she came, shouting Asher’s name into the room, hoping the neighbors who shared a wall didn’t hear her.

Minutes later, Asher still hadn’t stopped touching her. She’d given up sucking, but her tongue still lathed Linden’s sex with attention, gliding around and never focusing on one spot for too long. Asher’s fingers were moving in and out and all around inside her, too, and Linden wondered if she was trying to find a certain spot to make her come again.

“Are you going to come back up here anytime soon?” she asked as her hand found and ran through Asher’s hair, pushing it out of her face in order to see it.

“No,” Asher replied and licked over her clit hard.

“Fuck, Ash.”

“I want to make you do that again.”

“You will if you don’t stop.”

“Yeah?” Asher asked.

Linden nodded and said, “Yes. You’re killing me right now.”

Asher sucked her clit for a second, earning a gasp from Linden, and stopped.

“I like this.”

“Which part?” Linden asked with a soft smile.

“All of it,” Asher replied. “But especially how you taste. It’s salty and sweet, and it’s just…”

“Just what?”

Asher licked her again, causing Linden’s hips to jerk a bit, and said, “Like it’s mine.”

Linden smiled down at her and added, “Like I’m yours.”

Asher just nodded and lowered her mouth until she was sucking on Linden once more.