Chapter 24 Miranda
Chapter twenty-four
Miranda
NOW
There were so many things that might have made going to bed with Leo awkward. I’d just broken up with Stone. Marley and James were sleeping down the hall. And he hadn’t had sex in over a decade.
But in the end, it wasn’t uncomfortable at all.
Leo had admitted he wanted me in the living room, but from the moment I took his hand and began walking us to our bedroom, his innate shyness and lack of experience came to the surface.
He’d clearly surrendered himself to my expertise, such as it was, and that felt like an honor rather than a burden.
We were so close and had been through so much together. We knew how to communicate.
All we had to do was find ways to explore each other's bodies that were pleasurable for both of us. And that task didn’t seem daunting. More like a fun project.
In our room, I flipped the switch on the mini-Christmas tree on the dresser, casting twinkles of light across the room.
Leo watched hungrily as I undressed. Then he did the same. We stood by the side of the bed, and I allowed myself to look my fill, encouraging him to do the same.
His body was magnificent. I’d already known, had seen and felt it many times over the years, but this was the first time I’d seen everything altogether all at once.
His broad chest and the line of hair leading down his belly drew my gaze.
His soft cock, pink and thick, swung in a messy bush of dark blond curls.
Evidently, Leo did not indulge in manscaping. I loved it.
I dragged a pointer down the center of his chest before trailing it back up to circle his nipples through his chest hair. The silvery strands shone in the moonlight pouring in through the gauzy curtains.
Leo's eyes blazed as he kept them on me.
Making a path through the hair at his groin, I ran my fingertip along the base of his cock, up past his circumcision scar, and over the head, where a dollop of pre-cum leaked.
He held steady through my ministrations, but when I gathered the pearly liquid and circled the sensitive tip, his shaft twitched.
Gently, I rubbed back and forth across the underside.
He bit his lip and grunted, pumping his hips reflexively toward me.
Good to know, Bear.
I moved my finger farther down his shaft, feeling the pulsing vein along the underside. When I reached the base again, the rest of my hand got involved, my fist gripping his length. I stroked a few times and was rewarded by a louder grunt and more pushing into my palm.
My mind conjured so many ideas for what could come next.
In a parallel universe, I was dropping to my knees and taking him into my mouth.
Or lying down on the bed and pulling him on top of me.
But in this world, I felt him shaking with…
I wasn’t sure. Emotion? Trepidation? Amazement? A combo of everything?
I dropped my hand. “Touch me,” I murmured.
He nodded. Unlike me, he was not inclined to be delicate. He raised two eager hands to cup my breasts, palming them roughly, if reverently, squeezing them together as he gazed down like they were his new favorite toy.
Without preamble, his head dipped, and he tongued my nipples, first one, then the other, pressing them together to more easily flit between the two. He took my right nipple into his mouth and sucked firmly, tweaking the peak of my left breast between his thumb and middle finger.
His aggressiveness was unexpected. Unexpected but very welcome. My desire felt like a dam breaking. As much as I wanted to go slow and make sure Leo was comfortable, his raw lust lit me up like an inferno.
He pulled off my nipples and tilted his forehead into my chest, his heated pants causing goose bumps across my collarbone.
A noise that sounded a lot like a laugh came from his throat.
“Sorry,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting it to be so intense.
Finally being in this moment with you has me going a little insane. ”
I smiled. “That’s a good thing.” Looking down, I saw him stroking his erection. He was fully hard now, red tip dripping with pre-cum. Still, he handled it like a foreign object. “How about we get on the bed?” I suggested.
“Alright,” he said, nerves seeming to reappear.
Lying down, we continued to touch and caress as we faced one another.
He ran a hand along my side before propping himself up to reach behind my thigh.
Boldly, he tugged my leg over his hip, crooking my knee and bringing us close enough that his erection dragged across my center, sending a bolt of electricity through me.
“I’m not sure what you want to happen tonight,” I said. “Just know that I’m not in any rush. We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. Ever.”
“I know. And I’ll be honest that I’m a little scared. Even though it was a long time ago, I have memories of…disappointing my partners.” He exhaled slowly through his nose.
Placing my hand on his cheek, I reassured him. “It’s not like that with you and me, Leo. I promise. You could never disappoint me because you’re exactly right for me.”
“And only you,” he vowed, brushing his lips across mine. I held him there as we experienced our first real kiss. I kept my lips pliant, taking part but not leading, so he could show me what he wanted.
A flare of lust sparked when his tongue danced along the seam of my lips until finally, tentatively, he invaded my mouth. We kissed and kissed, tangling our tongues and laughing as we occasionally came up for air.
I was kissing Leo!
And it was as magical as I’d always known it would be.
After ten minutes, he pulled his head back. I could tell he wanted to say something but was having trouble getting it out.
“What is it?” I asked. “You can tell me.”
He nodded, inhaling raggedly. “I know there are other things we can do. With our hands and…our mouths.” His cheeks flushed adorably. “But I really want to make love to you. Like, be inside you. I’m still learning how to listen to my body, but I feel certain I’d like to do that.”
“I want that too,” I said quickly, so he’d know I had no hesitation. “But I don’t have condoms.”
His forehead raised. “Do we need them?”
“I have an IUD. And I haven’t been with Stone in months. I got tested when I had my last physical, which was after that, when I started my job. So as long as it’s okay with you, we can go without.”
“I don’t mean to sound like a caveman, but I’d really like that.”
I guffawed. “Something primal in you, Bear? Feeling the need to mark me?”
Even as I grinned, his face remained unsmiling.
“Is that so bad? All of a sudden, my world is different. I was happy before, and I made it work for myself. But now I can have a whole different future. And the best part of it is that you’re with me.
I don’t want to freak you out, but I hope you know how much I love you.
” With intention, he rolled me onto my back and brought himself to a hands-and-knees position above me.
“I adore you. And I’m so humbled and honored that you’ve changed my life. That I get to be with you.”
Everything he said ignited my senses. Who didn’t want to be loved so completely? But it was important to me that he understood we were on equal footing.
“I’m the lucky one, Leo. And you should know how much I love you too.
” I reached my arms up and touched his cheeks.
“A week ago, I thought I needed to put distance between us because being near you reminded me of all the things I wanted from a relationship but couldn’t have.
Now I don’t have to worry about finding the next best thing.
Being with you is my dream. You're everything and exactly enough. And I’m going to make sure you never doubt that. ”
“Thank you,” he whispered, tapping our foreheads. A moment later, he pushed my right knee to my chest and lined up the head of his cock with my entrance. Inch by inch, he pressed in, until he was fully seated. “I’m inside you,” he rasped.
“You’re inside me.”
He kissed me again and began moving, rocking his hips slowly back and forth. Trying to find his rhythm in a dance that was new to him.
And because it was with Leo, it felt new to me too.
He gazed at me as he thrusted, smiling at his own brand of clumsiness, and I grinned back. I’d had sex before. I’d participated in sex before. But this was the first time it felt like I was sharing sex with someone.
A tear slipped out of my eye, and he caught it with his thumb, smearing the wetness across my cheek.
“It’s a happy one, right?” he asked softly.
“So happy.”
He hitched my other leg up, practically folding me in half, and I knew he was getting close. “I want you to come too,” he said. “How do I make that happen?”
I smirked. “Another day, remind me to give you my lecture about how sex education needs to include giving boys the memo that making a girl come in missionary position with just your hard cock is sort of a pro-level move.”
He chuckled. “Noted. So what can I do?”
I nipped at his chin. “Someday, with practice, we can probably get there. I believe in us. But for now, I’m gonna help you out.
” I reached down and put a finger on my clit.
Surprisingly, I didn’t have to do much. Thanks to Leo’s size and sheer enthusiasm, I was already close.
“Just keep stroking your big hard cock inside me.”
“Damn.”
“You like the dirty talk?”
“I didn’t know until just this minute, but yeah. It’s sexy as hell.”
“I’ll make a list. We have a lot of fun ahead of us, figuring stuff out."
“Looking forward to that.”
“Me too.”
He stopped talking and began pumping his hips in earnest. Fifteen seconds later, I came hard, shuddering with pleasure.
“Oh fuck!” He cried out as my muscles contracted around him, loudly enough that I put my hand over his mouth, glancing at the bedroom door.
“Oh fuck.” This time, he whisper-shouted, squeezing his eyes shut.
I felt the pulsing of his cock, four distinct shots as he unloaded before collapsing onto my torso.
As much as I liked his weight on me, he was twice my size.
I tapped his biceps, and he rolled off. Stretching my arm out to grab his discarded white T-shirt from the floor, I put it under my butt.
At his quizzical look, I laughed. “I don’t come with a plug, Bear.
The minute your dick came out, so did about half of your deposit.
” I winked. “Sex is a messy business sometimes. In a perfect world, we’d have quicker access to hand towels, but sometimes you have to improvise. ”
“You can joke about it being messy, or awkward, or whatever, but what we just did—it was perfect. I never knew it could be like that.”
“It was perfect,” I murmured, meaning it. “It’s never been like that for me either.”
“Really?”
The vulnerability in his voice tugged at me. My heart clenched for early twentysomething Leo trying to figure himself out, being told he was less than. I’d show him that his lack of experience was a chance for us to explore and be playful. Not something bad.
Leaning over and kissing his chest, I snuggled into his side. “Really. You were wrong on Halloween when you implied that I had a lot of options. When it comes to being the best version of myself, there’s only one. Only you. Anything else would be playacting.”