Chapter 13
Eve burrowed into the warm cocoon of soft flannel sheets and heavy down that covered her to her neck as the glow of the rising dawn drew her from her slumber the next morning. Her body felt gloriously sated, her limbs heavy, and she smiled as the dull, not at all unpleasant ache between her legs called to mind memories from the night before.
Memories of Aspen’s hands on her hips, pulling her closer. The heat of her kiss, and the warm, velvety glide of her tongue. The feeling of Aspen pressing inside her, filling her so perfectly, like they were two pieces to a puzzle. The way Aspen’s muscles had bunched and coiled as she fucked her into blissful oblivion. The softness of Aspen’s lips against her skin as she worshiped her every curve. The way Aspen’s strong fingers had dug into her thighs, holding her down, pulling her close as that incredible, talented mouth carried her into release again and again and again.
Recalling just how many times Aspen had made her come made her blush. She’d never been so brazen or bold in bed, but giving herself to Aspen had been the most natural thing in the world.
But more than the physical, what stood out most in her mind was the tenderness that laced Aspen’s voice and the gentle way she’d touched her when they lay spent in each other’s arms, talking softly about everything and nothing of significance, too tired to go again but both unwilling to surrender the slice of heaven they’d found and succumb to sleep.
Her reverie was broken by Aspen shifting beside her, and she blinked her eyes open to drink in the sight of Aspen relaxed in sleep with one arm bent over her head and the duvet puddled across her taut stomach.
God, she’s so fucking beautiful.
Even asleep, Aspen was the embodiment of power and grace, making Eve wish she had her camera. Not that she’d ever photograph Aspen without consent, but the artist in her longed to capture the way Aspen looked in this moment. The definition of her deltoid and the elegant angle of her arm that cradled her head in a way that evoked the sensual repose of Bredt’s Reclining Odalisque . The sharp line of her jaw and the supple fullness of her lips. The graceful length of her neck and the broadness of her shoulders.
Aspen had a vitality and beauty that deserved to be immortalized, and for as much as it seemed a waste to not do so, Eve was selfishly glad that this view, this woman, this moment was hers and hers alone.
Her stomach fluttered as her gaze lingered on Aspen’s small, firm breasts, and she licked her lips as she savored the sight of Aspen’s dark nipples that stood half-erect in the coolness of the room. Her mouth watered at the memory of the way they’d tightened to hard points against her tongue, and warmth bloomed low in her belly as that memory heralded a ghost of Aspen’s husky, pleading voice begging to be touched.
For as much as she’d enjoyed the way Aspen touched her, touching Aspen was an even more ethereal experience. It was one thing to be on the receiving end of that strength and confidence, but to have it surrendered? To have Aspen spread beneath her, gasping and writhing with need?
God, it’d been fucking fantastic.
She was moving before she even realized it. The duvet slipped down her back as she hovered above Aspen, and she tucked her hair behind her ear as she dipped her head to take one of those delicious nipples into her mouth. She squeezed her legs together at the way the bud immediately stiffened against her tongue, and she looked up to watch Aspen’s face as she pulled away to blow a light breath over the erect nub.
And, oh, was she glad she did, because she’d never witnessed anything more beautiful than Aspen’s lips parting with a sharp breath as her eyelids fluttered open. She licked and suckled at Aspen’s breast as Aspen came slowly awake, and purred contentedly when Aspen’s fingers wound into her hair to scratch at her scalp in gentle encouragement.
“Good morning,” Aspen rasped.
Eve brushed a kiss over the nipple. “Is this okay?”
“Mm, very okay.” Aspen smiled and arched her chest into Eve’s mouth.
Eve held Aspen’s gaze as she extended her tongue to paint a light, fleeting tease of a lick across the very tip of her nipple. “You like this?”
“Yeah, but I’d—” Aspen’s retort faded into a groan as Eve opened her mouth wide and took as much of Aspen’s breast into her mouth as she could fit. Aspen hissed in pleasure when Eve sucked against her nipple hard, and her grip on Eve’s hair tightened when that suck was followed by a gentle nip. “Fuck, Eve.”
“Maybe later,” Eve joked as she pressed up onto her elbow to lean over Aspen and attend to her other breast.
“Oh, someone’s feeling sassy this morning,” Aspen noted in an amused tone as she used her hold on Eve’s hair to hold her mouth to her chest.
Eve hummed around Aspen’s nipple and sucked against it hard to stretch it to its limit as she pulled away. She delighted in the way it stood at sharp attention when it slipped from her lips, and brushed a light kiss over the bud. “Do you want me to stop?”
“No,” Aspen murmured. Her expression softened as she combed her fingers through Eve’s hair, and Eve hovered, frozen in place, utterly spellbound by the emotion that burned in Aspen’s beautiful brown eyes as she whispered, “Please don’t ever stop.”
Eve whimpered as Aspen’s silken voice slid over her like a caress. “Aspen…”
“Eve,” Aspen exhaled, sounding equally affected. She pressed lightly at Eve’s head. “Please, beautiful girl. I need you.”
Eve’s eyes fluttered as she pressed a wet kiss to the valley between Aspen’s breasts. She shifted to kneel between her legs as she kissed her way down Aspen’s body, worshiping her inch by glorious inch, enchanted by the way Aspen’s abs tensed beneath her lips and the breathy, wanton sound that spilled from Aspen when she fluttered her tongue in her belly button.
Eve’s gaze drifted up the path she’d just blazed as she settled between Aspen’s legs, and she felt a tug in her chest when their eyes locked. She recognized, intellectually, that they’d known each other for only the briefest amount of time, but as she stared into Aspen’s eyes, she felt it as if she’d known her forever.
She held Aspen’s gaze as she stretched out between her legs, and neither of them blinked at the way the atmosphere thickened with anticipation and something extra that was special just to them as she leaned in to taste the woman who had captivated her from the moment she’d laid eyes on her.
Though she’d acquainted herself with Aspen’s body the night before, she took her time to memorize it now as she luxuriated in the way Aspen responded to her as she ran her tongue through her slick, swollen folds. She marveled at the soft gasps that caught in Aspen’s throat when she licked and sucked at her clit, and wanted to lose herself forever in the quiet, breathy whimpers that rained from her lips whenever she pressed inside her.
Eve caressed Aspen’s hips and thighs as she guided her toward ecstasy. She delighted in the way Aspen rode the wave building inside her and then, just when it was about to crest, pulled back to extend her pleasure. She reveled in the way Aspen moved against her mouth—deftly evading as she struggled for control one moment and then wantonly chasing after her touch with the need to feel, to connect, to come in the next. She basked in the heady taste of Aspen’s arousal and the way Aspen moaned her name with reverent abandon every time she softened so beautifully against her mouth as she surrendered to her pleasure.
Eve loved the dance, but she wanted nothing more than to see Aspen come undone, to feel the power of her climax and taste the sweetness of her release. She cupped Aspen’s ass in her hands as she pulled herself closer, not allowing Aspen any measure of retreat as she lapped greedily at her center. Her eyes rolled back in her head when Aspen bucked against her with a desperate, “Oh, fuck,” and she hummed approvingly when both of Aspen’s hands tangled in her hair to direct her mouth to where Aspen needed her the most as she gave herself over to the wave of pleasure inside her.
When Aspen came, it was with a broken, trembling cry that was so lush with relief that it made Eve clench, and she slowed her ministrations as she dipped and swirled her tongue through the sweetness of Aspen’s pleasure, teasing little aftershocks of release from Aspen’s glorious body as she came down from her high.
Eve rubbed her cheek against Aspen’s thigh as she watched, entranced by the way Aspen melted into the mattress with a sigh as her orgasm faded into a honeyed memory. Aspen relaxed her grip on Eve’s hair to lightly scratch her fingers through the abused strands and rasped a thoroughly sated, “My god, Eve,” as she struggled to catch her breath.
Pride bloomed in Eve’s chest, and she hid the way she smiled in response by smearing a wet kiss across Aspen’s inner thigh. “You’re incredible.”
“Mm, nope.” Aspen groaned softly as she pulled herself into a half crunch to gently hook two fingers beneath the point of Eve’s chin. Her voice somehow managed to be both playful and smoldering at the same time as she urged Eve higher with a husky, “No false modesty, beautiful girl. That was all you.”
Eve blushed. “Pretty sure it was both of us,” she deflected as she captured Aspen’s lips in a searing kiss.
It proved to be the perfect distraction, because Aspen moaned throatily at the taste of herself on Eve’s tongue and surged off the bed to flip their positions. Eve whimpered at the blatant display of strength, and Aspen nuzzled Eve’s lips as she stretched out along her side. “You like this?”
“Very much,” Eve exhaled as she chased after her.
She mewled softly as their lips met in a slow, deep kiss, and curled into Aspen as long fingers danced up her side to fondle her breast in time with their sinking, swirling tongues. Her hips began to rock needfully as she lost herself in the Aspen’s intoxicating kisses and indulgent caress, and she spread her legs wider when Aspen’s hand drifted down her belly and over her hip.
She whimpered at the first teasing brush of Aspen’s finger over her clit, and clenched with a fresh wave of arousal when Aspen pulled back to tickle her inner thigh as she murmured, “What do you want, beautiful girl?”
Eve rolled her hips desperately. She was already so turned on from pleasuring Aspen that it wouldn’t take much to get her off, and she wanted it. “Touch me.”
Aspen’s eyes darkened as she began rubbing slow, light circles over Eve’s clit. “Like this?”
“Yes,” Eve hissed as she melted beneath Aspen’s fingertips.
“You feel so good,” Aspen whispered in a voice that was soft and textured like crushed velvet. She nuzzled Eve’s cheek, her breath crashing in heavy waves against Eve’s lips as she pressed closer to her side. “So soft. So warm.”
Eve groaned and wrapped her right hand around Aspen’s wrist that was braced beside her head to anchor herself as Aspen’s fingers worked pure magic between her legs.
“So wet,” Aspen continued her hushed dissertation as she dipped lower to tease slick, swollen lips open wider and drag some of that wetness back to Eve’s clit as she sped her touch by a fraction.
“Fuck, Aspen, please .” Eve tangled her right hand in the sheets off her hip as the heat of her building orgasm began to spread through her.
“You are so fucking sexy,” Aspen groaned as she ducked her head to suck Eve’s left nipple between her lips.
Eve tipped her head back with a rumbling groan as the pull of Aspen’s mouth on her breast tugged at her clit, and stars flashed behind her eyelids at the way that heavenly connection completed by Aspen’s fingers flicking, swirling, rubbing so fucking perfectly between her legs. It only took three or four hard, heavy sucks to push her over the edge. Her back bowed off the bed as she came with a long, drawn-out cry, and she crashed back to the mattress with a broken whimper when, instead of slowing her touch, Aspen increased it.
In a feat Eve hadn’t realized was even possible, her orgasm stalled mid-release and began building upon itself into another, stronger climax. She dug her nails into Aspen’s wrist as she was swept away by the tidal wave building inside her, drawing a delighted gasp from Aspen’s perfect lips that was drowned out a split-second later by her own moan of pleasure when Aspen responded with a sharp bite to her nipple.
It was the most exquisite torture, and Eve was only dimly aware of the way she was gasping, moaning, chanting Aspen’s name as pleasure overwhelmed her. She was a creature of sensation, aware of only the heat of Aspen’s mouth on her breast and the pressure of Aspen’s fingers between her legs, as she rode the swell of her building climax. When it finally broke and she tumbled over the falls into the swirling depths of release where up and down lost all meaning, she let loose a silent scream that would have shaken the rafters if she’d had a spare ounce of energy left to put any weight to it.
When she came back to herself, it was to the warm, steady weight of Aspen’s body half-draped over her own, anchoring her, and soft kisses peppering her cheeks and lips. She tried to chase after Aspen’s lips for a proper kiss, but the coordination to do so had yet to return to her muscles, and she hummed when Aspen, sensing what she wanted, adjusted the route of her meandering kisses to deliver the one she wanted.
“Are you back with me?” Aspen hummed, her voice textured with warmth and the hint of a well-deserved, self-satisfied smirk as she nuzzled Eve’s cheek.
Eve giggled against Aspen’s lips and confessed, “I’m honestly not sure.” She sighed and blinked her eyes open. It took a moment for her gaze to focus, and her heart squeezed when she saw Aspen watching her with a tender, openly adoring smile. “Aspen…”
Aspen’s eyes crinkled. “Yes, beautiful girl?”
Eve licked her lips as she lifted a hand to cradle her jaw. “How are you even real?”
A slightly bashful look flitted across Aspen’s face. “If I said I think you bring it out in me, would that be too much? Eve…”
There was a suggestion of promise in the way Aspen said her name that made Eve’s breath catch in her throat. It was too much for the moment—it was certainly too much for the amount of time they’d known each other—but she liked it. And she wanted more. “Yes?”
Aspen’s gaze dipped to Eve’s lips. “If you keep looking at me like that, we’re not gonna be leaving this bed for the rest of the day.”
Eve dragged her thumb to tease the corner of Aspen’s lips. “And that’d be bad because…?”
“Because…” Aspen’s voice trailed off as their eyes locked, and time stopped as they stared into each other’s souls. “I don’t know,” she whispered. And then, roughly, “I want you.”
Tears stung the backs of Eve’s eyes, but she willed them away as she tugged Aspen’s mouth towards hers with a breathless, “So kiss me.”