Page 134 of With Stars in Her Eyes

“Baby, I’m going to need you to get real naked real fast.”

Courtney’s vest was gone in a few flicks of buttons. Her jeans hit the floor seconds later. As soon as I had stripped down to my underwear, her mouth was on my collarbone as her thumb slid over my nipples, making me moan.

“Fast enough for you?” Courtney’s tongue slid over my throat.

Her cello-calloused fingers walked downward from my ribs to navel to tease at the hem of my underwear. I swallowed once, my body arching upward, hoping to coax those fingers exactly where I needed them.

“Keep your eyes closed.”

Courtney left the bed, but I still obeyed her and kept my eyes shut. I was entirely naked except for thin boy shorts.

Footsteps approached the bed again. Something soft and silky grazed my thighs and then swept upward. Courtney combed my wild hair off my shoulders and over the pillow beneath my head. A scarf draped over my eyes, and I almost laughed because I understood. This setup had been in one of the earliest books that Courtney had loaned me after we met. The ransacking pirate who had secretly been a woman in disguise fell in love with the woman who had stowed away on the ship. There had been drama and intrigue and a particularly incredible scene involving a blindfold.

Smiling lips pressed against mine. “Tell me if you want me to stop.”

“Are you really going to torture me?” I lifted my head to let Courtney tie the scarf around it.

Courtney didn’t answer but she did trace a line down my arm from elbow to wrist. Her lips pulled on the pulse point just hard enough. The nerves beneath my skin sparked with every suck and graze of teeth as her mouth moved over my body.

Courtney raised my arms above my head and linked them together where my hair was fanned out beneath. Although Courtney didn’t say anything else, I kept them there. As she kissed the curves of my stomach, I arched toward her.

I forgot where I was and anything about the last few months.

All I knew was that the woman I loved washere.

Finally, Courtney slid my underwear down my legs. She pressed her palms onto my knees, bowing my legs out. I was open and exposed but felt utterly worshipped in a way I never had before.

With every flick of Courtney’s tongue on my thighs, my small delicate whimpers turned to louder moans. The peaks of Courtney’s breasts grazed my hips as she found new places on my body that hadn’t yet been kissed. Courtney’s breaths matched mine. The pressured need coming in hot, deep exhales.

Every time I thought Courtney would ease the aching at my core, the unhurried teasing continued. So painfully slowly the pressure of those touches built. Instead of kneaded, my nippleswere pinched. Courtney’s fingertips slid to my ass and dug into my softest places and somehow my body opened further.

“You feel ready?” Courtney said with a teasing quiver in her voice.

“Baby, if I were any more ready, I would already be coming on your—fuck.”

Courtney’s tongue swept over my pulsing center. I cried out. The blindfold and the relentless teasing meant I felt this contact every place Courtney had touched before. It was lightning on a complex circuit. A surging and sparking storm over a series of live wires.

I was nearing an explosion when all sensation stopped.

Courtney placed something in my hand, and I felt along the silicone to realize what it was.

Holy fucking hell. I was about to lose it on this woman.

I couldn’t hold out any longer. I pulled off the scarf. My chest jumped at the sight of Courtney over me. It was like I had never appreciated just how beautiful she was until seeing her now with her eyes so very wide and dazed with need of her own.

I placed the soft vibration at my core, finding the angle I needed while Courtney seemed content to trace every line on my body. I was done being patient. “Please.”

“Oh god.” Courtney lowered herself onto the other end. Her eyes shut and she braced an arm on the bed beneath me.

I bucked upward, watching every nuance of Courtney’s expression to make sure every tremor was pleasure. I was so distracted by Courtney’s perfect fucking face, that those first tingles of an orgasm nearly took me by surprise.

“Mmm… oh fuck.Fuck.”

My knees held Courtney tight as we rocked together. Courtney’s breathing came faster and faster and every heave made me lose myself further into the electric brightness of this perfect moment. I lost control of my muscles as I came. My fingers gripped the sheets because whatever force between them was nearly too much for gravity to keep hold of me. I gave myself entirely to themoment, but when I thought it was over there was just another height and another gasp and another fall.

“Thea.” Courtney said my name over and over with a few long, trembling groans ending with a final wordless exhale. The vibration was gone now, but we were still joined together.

Our eyes locked. Courtney’s hand slid up my body, our fingers intertwined. After bending to sweep her lips over mine once more, Courtney spoke. “I never want to be anything other than yours ever again.”