Page 14 of Smoke and Glitter

"In a minute."

She lets her head fall back against the mattress. I laugh under my breath and slide my hand between her legs.

Her mouth opens, but the argument doesn't make it out.

I push two fingers inside her again and work them slowly while my thumb circles close enough to keep her hips moving. She tries to chase the pressure for a while, but her wrists stay where I put them.

When I finally give her what she's been reaching for, her whole body tightens at once.

The second orgasm catches her faster. She clenches hard around my fingers and presses her head back into the mattress while I keep my hand steady until it's over.

I strip off my jeans while she catches her breath and reach into the nightstand for a condom. She watches me roll it on, her chest still rising fast, hair spread across the pillow.

When I come back over her, her legs open for me.

I push inside slowly.

Her breath leaves in a long exhale and her legs come around my hips.

"Look at me."

She does.

I pull back and press in again, keeping the pace slow enough that I can watch her face change with each movement.

"Move with me."

Her hips rise to meet mine.

I keep the rhythm steady until she finds it with me, her body moving instead of waiting for what I'll do next. Her mouth finds the side of my neck, and she says my name there once, quiet enough that I feel it more than hear it.

I move faster.

Her nails catch my back. I tell her to bring her legs higher and she does, the new angle pulling a gasp out of her. A few strokes later I feel her tighten around me.

She comes with her face pressed into my shoulder and both arms around me now, shaking hard enough that I have to brace myself over her.

I don't last much longer.

Afterward, Autumn ends up on her stomach across my bed with her hair everywhere and one cheek pressed into the pillow. I clean up, come back and lie beside her.

For several minutes she doesn't say anything.

"Hey."

"Mm."

"Stay tonight."

Her eyes stay closed. "Wasn't going anywhere."

She rolls toward me and fits herself against my side, face settling into my shoulder. One hand comes to rest on my chest.

I expect her to say something else.

She doesn't.

Within a minute, her breathing slows and her hand goes loose against me.