CHAPTER 32
Eline held Arlowe to her body. She didn’t want to let go.
They’d both gone from breathing hard to coming down from their orgasms and slowing their breathing, but they still hadn’t moved.
She just ran her hands up and down Arlowe’s back, remembering how much Arlowe used to love it, and she loved it, too.
Eline loved that Arlowe could be confident and sexy one minute and vulnerable and beautiful the next.
She loved how Arlowe was always honest and kind.
She loved how smart this woman was and how funny she could be, knowing when she was hilarious sometimes, and other times, having no idea.
“Arlowe?”
“Hmm?”
“Can you roll onto your back for me?”
Arlowe nodded slowly against her neck and moved off her. Eline missed the contact instantly, but she wanted to be on top of Arlowe now, so she rolled until she was and stared down at her.
“I’m so happy, Arlowe. I know things are not ideal, and there’s still a big if with my visa, but the fact that you’re here now and that you’re staying so we can give this a real chance while we work out the rest, makes me so happy.”
“I know when I left before, you felt like I wasn’t willing or, I don’t know, smart enough to figure it out, but it wasn’t that.
” Arlowe ran her hands up Eline’s back. “I loved you so much, but I was so young, Eline. I’d never even had a real girlfriend before you – not like you, anyway – and there you were, the love of my life, before I was ready or able to deal with everything that came with that.
I couldn’t see myself being with you without being with you for most of the time. I’m ready now.”
“Me too,” Eline said with a smile before she kissed her, but as she started lowering her lips to Arlowe’s neck, she heard Arlowe sniffling, so she stopped and looked at her. “Are you okay?”
“Sorry,” Arlowe said, wiping her eyes. “I thought I was done with the waterworks.”
“Babe…”
Eline kissed Arlowe’s eyelids.
“It’s a lot. I’m here with you, and we’re doing this, and it’s a lot. I never thought I’d get to have this again.”
“Neither did I,” she replied and kissed Arlowe once more before lowering her lips back to Arlowe’s neck.
Arlowe’s tears subsided, and not long after that, Eline felt Arlowe squirm a little beneath her. She rolled down into her, and that had Arlowe moaning.
“God, I need you,” Arlowe said.
“I know, baby,” she replied.
She lowered her mouth to Arlowe’s breast, and for the first time in forever, she licked at the hardened nipple.
“Oh, God,” Arlowe said.
“I see you’re still sensitive here, too.”
She smirked and rubbed her nose against it.
“Yes,” Arlowe replied.
“Can you still…”
“I don’t know,” Arlowe said.
Eline looked up at her in confusion.
“It really shouldn’t surprise you that no one’s ever made me feel how you have in all the ways, so I don’t know if I still can. No one’s ever made me come just by touching my breasts how you did.”
Eline smiled up at her and said, “Well, we can test that later. I need to touch you everywhere first.”
“Yes, please,” Arlowe said.
Eline sucked on the nipple, causing Arlowe to shift under her, and when she moved her lips to Arlowe’s other nipple, giving it the same treatment, she knew for sure that she could still make Arlowe come just from this because of how Arlowe’s body was reacting to her without even trying.
She used that confidence to move down lower, kissing Arlowe’s flat stomach and breathing her in as she moved her mouth around the flesh.
Arlowe had always been the most beautiful woman in the world to her.
From the moment she’d first met her eyes with Arlowe’s amazing gray ones, she’d been fully captured by her beauty, but if it was possible, Arlowe was even more beautiful now.
It was as if she’d grown into herself more with age, and that made her more confident in her own skin, which was something that Eline loved.
She kissed down to Arlowe’s thighs and pushed Arlowe’s legs apart, knowing exactly what she wanted.
Licking the inside of Arlowe’s thigh earned her a twitch and a hiss from the woman she loved, and Eline flattened her tongue and licked again.
Arlowe jolted this time, and Eline moved to her other thigh and licked.
She did that over and over again until Arlowe couldn’t control her hips anymore, and that was when Eline reached between Arlowe’s legs and spread her, taking a moment to swallow and remind herself that they could finally have this.
Then, she pressed her tongue to Arlowe’s clit and tasted her for the first time in years.
“Oh, fuck,” Arlowe let out.
Eline remembered what Arlowe used to like and hoped that it was still the case, so she licked her and felt Arlowe’s legs move even farther apart to give her better access.
Then, she flattened her tongue once more and licked hard, and Arlowe gasped.
Eline did it again and again, licking up one side or the other, dancing around Arlowe’s clit, building her up higher and higher, and when she knew that Arlowe was ready for her, she took her with her mouth and sucked on Arlowe’s clit hard, feeling Arlowe’s thighs tighten around her head just how they used to when she was about to come.
Eline continued to suck until Arlowe came, rocking into her face and making her moan herself because Arlowe’s hand was on the back of her head, driving her crazy.
She was now desperate for Arlowe’s touch again, but she knew she’d have to wait because she wasn’t done yet.
When Arlowe’s thighs finally released Eline’s head, and her hand went slack, Eline didn’t waste any time.
She moved up Arlowe’s body, kissed her hard, and slid her hand between Arlowe’s legs before pushing inside her with two fingers, knowing that Arlowe would be ready for her.
Arlowe’s eyes opened then, and they stared at her while Eline pulled out and pushed back in.
“I love you,” she said.
Arlowe seemed to only be able to nod, which had Eline smiling into another kiss, and she began working Arlowe up by pushing inside and pulling out, deeper every time. Soon, though, she switched to curling and flicking while she rubbed Arlowe’s likely still-sensitive clit with her thumb.
“Please,” Arlowe begged.
Eline took that as her cue to push in deeper while she covered Arlowe’s neck with her lips, remembering how to bring her over the edge.
She rocked against Arlowe because she couldn’t help herself, but she also thrust harder and faster until Arlowe was breathing her name into the room as she came all over her hand, which had Eline nipping at her neck before Arlowe’s hips slowed and Eline slowed her own movements.
“No one has ever touched me like you do,” Arlowe said a few minutes later, with Eline still inside her, pressed down into Arlowe’s now-clammy body.
Eline didn’t want to move, but she also wanted to be able to do this again in the future, and her wrist was starting to hurt, so she slowly and gently pulled out and kissed Arlowe’s neck.
“I feel the same way,” she replied.
“Can you…”
Eline wasn’t sure what Arlowe was going to say, so she gave her a second to finish that sentence, but hearing nothing else, she lifted her head to look at her.
“Can you…” Arlowe tried again. “I want to taste you.”
“Oh,” Eline said. “Yes.”
“Can you sit on my face?” Arlowe asked then, sounding a little nervous for some reason.
“Of course, I can,” she said. “Why do you look like you think I might say no?”
“It’s not that. It’s just not the most romantic question in the world, is it? We’re making love, and I want you to sit on my face.”
“Oh, that’s pretty romantic, if you ask me.”
She smirked down at Arlowe.
“I remember how your hips used to move when you’d be up there. God, Eline… I want that now.”
“Yes,” she breathed out, getting wetter by the second.
She shifted, waited for Arlowe to do the same, and then moved until her center was over her girlfriend’s mouth before she lowered herself to those waiting lips. Arlowe cupped her hips, encouraging Eline to move them, so she did, and when Arlowe’s tongue slipped between her folds, Eline twitched.
“God, I’ve missed this,” Arlowe stated. “You taste just how I remember.”
Eline smiled at her softly until Arlowe’s tongue lowered still and pushed inside her.
“Oh, God,” she let out.
Her hips rose on their own a bit, too, and she dropped herself onto Arlowe’s tongue over and over again before Arlowe gripped her hips tighter to be able to push in and pull out.
Eventually, she moved her tongue to Eline’s clit, which was begging for attention, and she lapped at it, making Eline squirm now.
When Arlowe held her in place, not letting her move too much, Eline knew what was coming next, but she couldn’t wait, so she reached for Arlowe’s head and tipped it up and into her. That was when Arlowe sucked hard.
“Yes!” Eline exclaimed as her head went back, and Arlowe let her move her hips how she wanted. “God, yes, baby.”
Arlowe groaned against her center, causing Eline to go over the edge, and she screamed Arlowe’s name into the room and continued to rock until she felt the orgasm begin to subside.
By that point, she couldn’t hold herself up any longer, and even though Arlowe was still working her clit over with her tongue, Eline had to move away.
She ended up flopping onto her back next to Arlowe, who immediately climbed on top of her and kissed her hard.
“I’m not done with you yet,” Arlowe told her with a sexy smirk.
“I hope you never are,” she replied with a smirk of her own.
“Well, we’ll need to take a break for food at some point, but other than that…” Arlowe pushed inside her, stretching her in the most amazing way. “I plan to live here forever.”
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It was hours later when they finally rested side by side in the small bed.
Her head was on Arlowe’s chest, and she was drawing shapes on Arlowe’s stomach.
They hadn’t said much since they’d, without words, shifted into this position to catch their breath, and Eline was hungry and could definitely use some water for her now-sore throat, but she wouldn’t dare move because she could tell without even looking up that Arlowe had fallen asleep.
It was sometime after nine at night, so she decided to let Arlowe sleep until she inevitably woke up to go to the bathroom or because she was hungry or needed some water, too.
Eline could wait for food and just about everything else in the world because lying here, pressed to Arlowe, was the most complete she’d ever felt.
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“What time is it?”
Eline looked up about two hours later, surprised to hear Arlowe’s voice.
“It’s after eleven. I thought you would end up sleeping through the night,” she replied softly, not wanting to let too much noise into their room.
“You didn’t go to sleep?”
“No. I’ve been lying here, thinking about how happy I am, for a while now. You can go back to sleep, love.”
She kissed the underside of Arlowe’s jaw.
“I’m kind of hungry. I think that’s why I woke up.”
“Why don’t I go into the kitchen and make us something quick? Sandwiches?”
“Can I come with you? I’m not ready to not be in the same room with you yet.”
Eline smiled at her and shifted until she was on her side, facing Arlowe.
“Should we put on clothes?” she asked.
“No, no clothes,” Arlowe stated. “Not yet.”
Eline nodded. Then, she got up, walked around to Arlowe’s side of the bed, and pulled her up by the hands.
“Well, isn’t this an interesting position?” Arlowe said, walking them back until Eline was pressed to the wall.
“No way.” She laughed as Arlowe moved her thigh between her legs. “Food, babe. We’re both starving.”
“I know, but…” Arlowe pressed her thigh to her a little harder, which caused Eline’s eyes to close.
“I bet I can make you come fast. We can eat after.” Her hand slipped between Eline’s legs then, and she began to stroke.
“You’re still so wet for me.” Arlowe hovered her lips over Eline’s.
“God, I love how you’re always just so wet for me. ”
“Food can wait,” Eline stated, giving in fully to Arlowe’s touch.