“Then I shouldn’t rush.”
“But you won’t get naked until I come.”
“No, ma’am. I won’t.”
“I want you naked and I want to come and you won’t let me. So unfair.”
“Caught between a cock and a hard place, aren’t you? You poor thing.”
Joey laughed, which should have been an awkward thing, laughing while completely naked with three fingers that weren’t hers inside her. But it didn’t feel awkward. It felt right. Everything with Chris felt right. Too right. She would steal more than his flannel shirts to take back with her when she returned home to Hawaii. If he wasn’t careful, she’d steal him, too.
“Chris.” She looked him straight in the eyes.
“Joey.”
“I would rather have you naked right now than come, that’s how bad I want you naked. And that’s bad. Because I really want to come.”
She tensed her inner muscles around his fingers so he knew she meant it.
“Damn,” he said. “You trying to break my hand?”
“Never. I like those hands too much.”
“They like you. They like you very, very much.”
“If they really liked me, they would strip your clothes off you. That’s what hands are good for.”
“How about we make a deal?”
“I like your deals.”
“I let you come now. And then I take off my clothes. And you let me come on you.”
“On me?”
He nodded. “On you.”
“Deal,” she said. “Should we shake on it?”
“Well. I would. But...” He glanced down at his hand between her thighs. “Let’s just call it an oral agreement. No, that’s a different thing.”
“You’re wonderful,” she said because she couldn’t help herself, because he was wonderful. He was, in fact, every kind of wonderful she could think of—sexy, sweet, totally wicked in bed, handsome, talented, hard-working, hard. Very, very hard.
Chris’s expression changed a little when she said that. He didn’t smile like she thought he would. The look he gave her was almost somber, a little wistful.
“What?” she asked.
“Nothing. Just trying to remember what I told you about good pain.”
“Hurts already,” she said.
“But still worth it.”
“Definitely still worth it.”
They kissed once more, a long, lingering kiss. She would think about this kiss and t
his moment when she was on the plane back to Hawaii. She knew that already. And she would remind herself what they decided, that they were adults who were allowed to make choices they would later regret. Or not regret.