Page 45 of Mountain Void

She shook herself quickly.

“I was thinking about us.”

She paused for a moment, wondering how much to elaborate on this. They were going to have to talk at some point—really talk to each other. And that conversation might make one of them run. It might open a whole new world of pain.

But it doesn’t need to happen today.

It was cowardly, but she wanted to enjoy this—to enjoy him—for as long as possible. Make enough memories to last through the painful days ahead.

His eyes narrowed. He was trying so hard to read her.

“Tell me, Charlie. What does ‘us’ look like?”

“I don’t know,” she admitted. Her lips curled into a small, almost shy smile. “But my body wants to keep finding out.”

Lorenz’s laugh just burst out of him. His pupils dilated as he let his eyes roam her body.

Scratch heard—he made her feel seen.

“Is that so?”

“Yes.” She let her own eyes wander down to his bare midriff, and to the outline of an erection under the sheet.

He pulled down at her side of the sheet, baring her breasts.

“It’s not cold. Why keep all this covered?”

Her nipples perked under his gaze. They felt—brittle, and not from the cold.

He licked one nipple—just the tip of his tongue at first, swirling gently, warming it. Then stepped back and blew on it gently as he moved to the other.

“So fucking beautiful.”

Charlie gasped.

“So fucking sensitive.”

God.

Yes.

His touch grew rougher as he sucked on each nipple in turn. Her gasps soon turned to moans.

“Please.”

There was an almost obscene pop as Lorenz released her nipple. “Please, what, honey?” he asked, his breath hot on her sensitive skin.

“Please touch me.”

His gaze grew serious. “I am touching you.”

She pulled his hand down between her legs. “Here.”

“So bossy.” He brought two fingers to his mouth and licked them. “I like it.”

His fingers found her clit and, at the same time, he went back to sucking on her nipples. The feeling was electric, as if her breasts and clit were connected by an invisible thread. Then his fingers were inside her—two at the same time, thick and hard.

Charlie whimpered.