"I'll think about it. I have to go shopping tomorrow. I own literally nothing. We split our possessions up into the two houses, and it was just ridiculous. While Nalea was at work, and Audra asleep, I carried everything back over there and put things back together."
"I noticed that. To be fair though, their house looks just as empty except they have a sofa, a bookshelf, and a kitchen set."
I laughed at that and nodded. "And dinnerware. Will you come with me? I hate shopping. I've literally purchased one thing for myself in my life and that's the bedroom set that got delivered today."
"Do you like it?"
I nodded while gathering her hair over her shoulder. "I have sheets but I need to get a new blanket that fits and stuff. Also, are you going to follow through on your promise?"
"What promise?" She smiled and turned to kiss my wrist.
"That I'll find you naked in my bed when I go in there tonight." I snickered when I asked, and she gave my collar a tug.
"You know it. It's been two whole days and I can hardly manage myself."
I laughed hard before cupping her cheeks to catch her in a heated kiss. My belly twirled with arousal that radiated immediately toward the apex of my thighs. Harlow's entire body tensed, and she held on to my wrists. Soft moans escaped her until we parted, leaving her with glassy-eyed and red-faced.
"Veyda…" Her breath hitched when she said my name. "I love kissing you. I want to kiss you all the time."
"I love kissing you, too," I whispered and caressed her thighs. "Every time?"
She nodded, inhaling slowly when her gaze flickered to mine. "Every time."
"How about…" I nipped her lips. "We get to the naked in bed portion of the evening."
"Yes, please." She nodded and nuzzled her nose across my cheek.
We untangled ourselves, and I stood first, lifting her up from the floor in one swift movement.
A soft gasp left her, and she laughed. "A little stronger?"
"Strong enough to lift you and perhaps a small sofa with some effort. That's all." I pressed my lips to her cheek as she encircled her arms around my neck.
"It's pitch black in here," she said as I toted her the few paces into the hall toward the stairs.
"It's pretty damn dark, I'll admit."
"Whoa. You're Shadow Walking and I feel like I'm floating." Her grip tightened on me.
"Am I?" I looked down at the stairs only to see my white socks shimmer in undulating waves. "Whoops. My energy is very sparky today it seems. Must be the soaked panties you caused me."
"Mine are way worse." She nipped along my jawline. "Cannot believe you carried me up here."
"I really like carrying you…" I nudged the door open with my foot. "Hmm. Maybe I should go get the candles."
"Yes, please." She laughed when I set her down on the bed.
"Naked girlfriend in the bed when I return." I grinned and walked backward away from her. "Deal?"
She began unbuttoning her blouse, and a wry smile curved her lips. "Deal."
My heart beat anticipatory rhythms in my chest and the smile left my face as I hurried down to the living room to retrieve the candles and lighter. The log in the fireplace burned down to glowing embers. I checked it quickly, before hurrying back upstairs with my spoils.
"I'm coming up," I announced when I realized my footsteps didn't make any noises on the new stairs. "Don't want to scare you."
"I'm expecting you. It's okay."
I found Harlow as I hoped, naked and resting on her side with her head propped on her bent arm. She faced the door while I lined the candles up along the empty windowsill. I lit each one, gnawing on my bottom lip as I ached to see the golden light pour over her curves. She smiled when I returned to the bed, her eyes twinkling in the low light.
"You're so beautiful…" I traced my fingers over the curve of her hip. My eyes misted over as emotions tangled with my desire for her. My mouth watered and I gulped. "You make me so happy."
"Even when you're very stressed out?" She caught my hand, lacing my fingers with hers.
I nodded, bringing her hand to my lips for a kiss. "Especially then."
"You make me happy, too, Veyda. More than I have ever been. Ever." She sat up to dangle her legs off the side of the bed. With the new bed, her feet hung above the floor, leaving me standing between her knees, her lips falling to my chin. "I would love a naked Veyda tonight."
I chuckled and shrugged out of my shirt when she urged it from me. My bra followed, and I let her unfasten my belt and jeans. They pooled at my feet, and I stepped out of them after she urged my boxers down my hips.
"Better?" I whispered, then pressed my lips to her forehead. She nodded and I closed my eyes, allowing myself to succumb to her gentle caresses.
Her fingers stroked my sides, sending a rolling wave of goosebumps over my flesh. Every worry, every pain of the day faded in her presence. All my senses calmed, my ears no longer screamed with hurt, and my skin warmed to her affection instead of recoiling at the slightest tap of the breeze. Solace wrapped itself around me in the form of my beautiful Harlow, and I melted into it, and into her.
She kissed each of my breasts, down my chest to my stomach then back again as my body surged with arousal. I shivered under her affection and tilted my head back when she licked and kissed my neck. I ran my fingers through her hair as she palmed my breasts, her thumbs running circles around my nipples, turning them into rigid peaks.
"You're so yummy," she said, her voice husky. She raked her teeth across my shoulder, and I shuddered. "Like that?"
"Yes." I sucked in my breath, opening my eyes to meet her gaze. "I want you." I cupped her face, dragging my thumb across her lips. "Right now."
Her entire body lurched with excitement under my firmer than usual expression. Shimmering eyes locked on to mine as she took my thumb between her teeth. She flicked her tongue over the tip of it and I quaked as the burn between my thighs demanded sustenance. Her hand slid down my stomach, over my mons, until she cupped me in a firm grip. My body quaked, turning my knees wobbly as I swallowed down my moan.
"You first," she hissed, her lips twitching with a threatened smile. "I want you first."
"You have me," I said in between heavy breaths.
"Yes, I do." Her fingers stroked my soaked center as she urged me with her onto the bed.
I attempted to crawl over her, but she quickly corrected, rolling me onto my back. She nudged my knees apart before kneeling between them, holding herself an inch above my face. My mind and body met her every step of the way, and I could hardly catch my breath. My hands trembled as I palmed her breasts, tweaking her nipples the way she liked. She tilted her head back for a moment, her pelvis rolling in a heavy grind against me. I gasped when her clit collided with mine, and a soft whimper left her lips.
"No cheating." She moved back, her glassy eyes half-lidded with her arousal. "You first."
My chuckle left me in a raspy tone as I watched her slide down my body. "You're driving me mad, baby."
"I know. I can feel it. I can feel you," she burst forth, her breathing erratic despite her seemingly controlled movements. "I need you."
I nodded, gulping down the sounds in my throat as my fingers fell to her hair. She moved down my body to land between my shaking legs. I watched her beautiful, smiling face disappear and I nearly shouted the moment her mouth met my pussy.
She moaned into me, her body quaking as her nails dug into my thighs. I snatched a pillow from beside me, smothering myself as I fought the sounds that threatened to leave me. My hips thrust of their own accord, and I felt the surrender as it washed over me. Harlow led this journey, her lashing tongue both pleasing and soothing the rage-filled parts of my body and heart. One after the other, rolling climaxes shattered the walls I'd kept tightly around myself.
I abandoned the pillow for handfuls of her hair and cried out when I came. Fiery snaps of pleasure raced from my pussy to the farthest reaches of my body. The flickering candle flames caused her
shadow to dance along the wall. She released me when I heaved for breath, then licked her way up the center of my body until she made it back to my lips.
"So good, baby," she whispered through a smile. She brushed my hair from my face as soft giggles left her. "You're so cute when you're shy."
"Oh my God, what did you do?" My legs continued to tremble, and she caressed my thigh as if attempting to soothe me.
"What I wanted." She bit her bottom lip. "So good."
I nodded and pulled her into a rough kiss. She moaned against my lips, and I grabbed handfuls of her ass, urging her legs around my waist.
"I need you," I ended the kiss to declare. "Now. Sit on me." Frantic movements found me as the yearning for her drove me to distraction. She didn't resist, but the moans that left her turned her movements into fumbling ones. I supported her, urging her to kneel with her hands on the headboard as I slipped under her.
"Oh my God, Veyda," she cried out, her legs shaking, threatening to ruin her position.
"I'm taking you like this." I gazed up at her glistening pussy and wrapped my arms around her legs. "I can't wait. I can't."
Harlow shouted when my mouth collided with her as I pulled her down to me, but the moment I thrust my tongue deep into her, the primal sounds that left her sent shivers down my body. She melted with me in a wave of the sweetest nectar that I'd grown addicted to. I moaned into her, allowing my mouth to take her however it wanted. In circles and sucks, laps and thrusts, meeting her turn for turn as she bounced on my face. I palmed her ass, squeezing her firmly and holding her to me in fear of her escape.
Rushes of warmth left her over and over with the heated releases that wracked her body. The world stopped around us, and all I could feel, all I could take in was her. We floated together in the dark masses of the universe where only stars and planets gave light to the curves of her body. No thoughts intruded, no emotions corrupted, and only pleasure existed.
My body erupted with hers without a need for stimulation, and our moans tangled with her heaving gasps. She rode me the way I wanted her to, and I took her the way I ached. She melted around my tongue like the warmest honey, and I couldn't get enough. I wouldn't ever stop wanting her, ever stop needing her, and the moments we shared while allowing our bodies to connect became what I longed for all the time. A space where only the two of us belonged, above the world and away from everyone else, to a private, impassioned voyage on a vessel meant only for us.
In this moment, for as much as I ached and wanted and yearned for her, a stronger notion made itself clearer. I loved Harlow. I loved her mind, her body, her spirit more than I'd ever loved another person. I looked for her at every turn of the highway, every peak of a mountain. I envisioned the sun lighting the curves of her smile, and the twilight of the moon casting shadows along her skin. She held my heart in a way I wouldn't let anyone else.
I urged her quaking body to the pillows with me, and she buried her face against my neck as she attempted to catch her breath. I wrapped her in my arms as tears streamed my cheeks. Her legs twitched, her body jolted, and she grabbed a handful of my hair. We clung to each other, as if I flew us a thousand feet above the Earth with gravity attempting to snatch us back down. We wouldn't go, wouldn't fall, and I'd hold her until the very last drop of energy seeped from me. Even then, when I had nothing left, I would make sure that I'd tumble first and cushion her fall.
Chapter Sixteen
Harlow's soft moans broke the morning as we rocked with each other, our hands lost between the legs of the other. Our morning lovemaking, without the desperation of the night prior, carried us into the new day with a tenderness I never expected. She kissed me sweetly when we came together, our moans tangling in between our bated breaths. Her smile ended our kiss, and a half-lidded gaze met mine.
"Hi, baby," she whispered, retreating from me then stroking my cheeks.
"Hi." I turned to kiss her wrist before closing my eyes to rest my forehead against hers. "You okay?"
"More than, Vey. More than." She pulled me into a hug, and I returned the gesture, both of us rolling to our sides to continue our cuddling. "I love meeting the morning with you."
"Me too." I drew in a slow breath and opened my eyes to gaze at her beautiful face. "I love you so much." The words escaped me before I could tether any sort of control around them. Tears pooled and I blinked them away despite the few that escaped. "I hope you know that."
"I do." Her cheeks burned bright red as her eyes shimmered with tears of their own. "And I love you, too. I've been wanting to say it, but I know you felt it."
I nodded as my everlasting smile broadened. "I do feel it. Can you say it again?"
"I love you, Veyda." She giggled and cupped my face in her hands.
"I love you, Museum Curator Harlow." I snickered and she cracked up, squirming around and tangling her legs with mine.
"I love you, History Professor Veyda."
"We're so gross." I grinned and nipped her lips.
"Mmm. I love our grossness." She closed her eyes with a smile plastered on her face. "Keep doing that."
"Nibbling you?" I obliged and nipped along her chin and shoulder.
"Mhmm." She rolled onto her back. The happy, contented expression never left her face.
"My jaw is still tight from all the nibbling I did last night," I teased. "I love my sweet candy girl."
"What candy am I?" She giggled when she asked despite her relaxed state.
"You're my…" I thought about it, then laughed before it even left my lips. "You're my jawbreaker."
She squealed, her laughter picking up. "Veyda!" She patted my cheek when I paused my teasing. "Keep going."
"How about this?" I flicked my tongue over her a few times, before placing a long lick across her clavicle.
Her brows furrowed and she braced her hand against my stomach. I watched as her lips parted with a heavy breath. "Again."
I repeated the gesture, this time licking along her neck while watching her.
"Veyda." Her nails dug into my hip. "Again."
I grinned and nibbled her ear before continuing the swift lashes of my tongue over her neck and chin. She bent her knees, her toes curled, and she tilted her pelvis enough to arch her back. A shrill cry left her when I pressed my tongue to her shoulder, and my eyes widened when a gush left her without ever being touched. I caressed her thighs while she came, then rubbed her belly in gentle circles.
"Whoa. How did that…?"
"Veyda." Her teeth chattered, and she met my gaze, her face bright red with sudden shyness. "Do it again."
I chuckled and licked her hand when she touched my face. "Not sure how I did it."
Her lashes fluttered and she stared at her own hand. "Again."
As requested, I licked her hand, turning it over to kiss and flick my tongue over the back of it, then down to the tips of her fingers. Again, her body arched, and a strangled cry left her. This time, I didn't withdraw my affections and continued the teasing licks wherever I could.
"How are you doing this?" She cried out, reaching for her pussy at the same time that she erupted again. "Veyda!"
My body quaked and I shivered as a rolling orgasm caught me by surprise. I moaned through it, retreating from her to hug her arm.
"I-I don't know, honey. Is it too much?"
She shook her head, turning on her side to curl into me again. "Oh my God."
I nodded as her breaths puffed against mine. "I've never…like this."
"Me either. Did we even sleep?" She caressed my face, her eyes closed as the heavily drowsy expression lingered on her face.
"I don't know." I kissed the end of her nose then rested my forehead against hers. "Something feels different, though."
She nodded while grabbing a handful of my hair. "But good different."
"Yes." I hugged her to me, and she cupped the back of my head.
Neither of us said anything for some time, and I listened to the soft thrums of her contented heartbeat. It rocked and s
oothed me as much as her fingers stroking my hair. We doted on each other, with gentle kisses and soft caresses while we floated in stillness together. Birds chirped outside coupled with the last of the crickets before they tucked themselves to sleep for the day. No traffic sounds inundated me and no bombardment of apartment living smells did either. Suddenly, the outer city life began to show its true value.
"What are you listening to?" Harlow asked, her voice soft.
"Your heartbeat. Your breath. Some birds and crickets."
"That all?" She smiled when she asked and brushed her thumb over my lips.
"For the moment. Should I listen for something more?"
"Nah. But I can hear your tummy rumbling. Are you hungry, honey?"
I nodded. "Should probably get some of my own groceries today… I have nothing here."
"Maybe some nonperishables to start and some of your favorite snacks. And mine too for when I sleep over." She giggled and leaned up to kiss me. "C'mon. Let's go have a shower together in your regal master bath."
"I've never lived in a house before. Did you know?" I held her hand as we slipped from the bed together and headed to the bathroom. "Also, I only have two towels."
"I did not know, and that's okay." She snickered and kissed my shoulder. "We're going to need a van to drive home all the stuff we buy today."
"Hmm. Considering I don't have a car, we could be in trouble. Your little car can only take so much."
"The delivery bots will bring it to you." She kissed my shoulder while I turned on the faucet. "You've always lived in apartment buildings?"
"My whole life. Small spaces."
"I like my small apartment. The big house I grew up in was a fortress of ice. Nothing warm or inviting about it. But this house…I love your house."
"How come?" When the water warmed, we stepped in together.
"It's perfect size, warm and cozy colors, new appliances, a yard. Imagine all the trick-or-treating that happens here on Halloween? Probably so much fun."
"You like Halloween?"
"Better than the other holidays."
"Hmm. Maybe we should coordinate a costume this year and take Elara. We can dress her as a little ghost because she's my Baby Boo."
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