CHAPTER 25

R aleigh had always been more of a receiver in the bedroom. She also didn’t have a lot of experience. As much as she’d joked about getting all those phone numbers, she hadn’t had sex with a lot of different women. The majority of her adult life had been with Millie. So, she didn’t have much to go on, but with Millie, at least, she’d been content to receive since Millie loved giving and didn’t always want reciprocation. Raleigh had gotten used to Millie touching her in the mornings before work and taking a shower right after. While Raleigh wasn’t complaining, at the same time, she’d always wanted to give more. On those rare occasions when she had climbed into the shower with Millie and had attempted to reciprocate, Millie hadn’t been interested. That hadn’t been a problem in their relationship, necessarily; it just left Raleigh wanting at times.

Now, she was on top of Hollis, beautiful and kind Hollis, who had already come once for her, and Raleigh was stroking her slowly this time. They were both naked now, no longer a pair of borrowed pajamas or sleep shorts between them. Raleigh’s center was over Hollis’s thigh, and she was rocking it slowly into Hollis, loving the delicious friction but not wanting to focus on coming herself. She wanted to make Hollis come again for her. She’d known it the moment she’d first woken up in Hollis’s arms that she wanted her, and now, she didn’t want to wait any longer. Just being wrapped around this woman had turned Raleigh on in ways she’d never been turned on before, but she also hadn’t thought about pursuing it tonight. Hollis had been tired and needed rest, but once Raleigh was on top of her, staring down at her and seeing Hollis in her own clothes, Raleigh worried she wouldn’t be able to wait much longer. She’d already waited so long for her. That was how Raleigh thought about it when she slid two fingers inside Hollis for the first time: she’d waited so long for her.

“Oh, God,” Hollis let out before Raleigh kissed her hard.

“I love how you’re wrapping around me,” Raleigh said.

“Your fingers, or are you talking… about… how my leg… is wrapped… around–”

“Yes,” Raleigh said to all of that, kissing Hollis’s neck as she pressed her thumb to Hollis’s clit and rubbed in tiny circles.

“Raleigh, I’m–”

“It’s okay,” Raleigh whispered into her ear. “You can let go, baby.”

“God, I–”

Hollis didn’t say anything after that. Her back lifted off the bed. Then, it fell, and her hips lifted up. Raleigh wanted to see. She wanted to watch Hollis’s face as she came. She looked down and saw Hollis open her mouth, her eyes in slits; her cheeks flushed a deep crimson. She was stunning. This was perfect. As Hollis continued to enjoy her orgasm, Raleigh noticed that her own hips were moving faster against Hollis’s thigh. Hollis’s hands were on Raleigh’s ass, and they were pressing down harder than they had before.

“Hollis, I’ll come,” she said.

“So?” Hollis replied, opening her eyes. “That’s kind of the point.”

“I don’t want it like this the first time. I want you to…” Raleigh had to force her hips to stop moving.

“Touch you,” Hollis guessed.

“Yes,” Raleigh replied, sitting up.

“How?”

“Just touch me. I’ll come,” Raleigh said.

“I want to touch you how you want to be touched.”

Raleigh removed her fingers from inside Hollis, wishing she could stay inside her forever, and brought them to Hollis’s mouth. Hollis smirked up at her and opened it. Raleigh slipped the fingers inside and nearly came as she watched Hollis suck her own desire for Raleigh off them. When Raleigh pulled them out, Hollis moved her own fingers to Raleigh’s sex, dipped inside her folds, coated her fingers, and put them to her lips, too, sucking on them as Raleigh watched.

“Oh, my God,” Raleigh let out.

“Do you want my fingers or my mouth?”

“Does it have to be an or question?”

Hollis laughed as she moved then, topping Raleigh quickly. Raleigh laughed, too, loving that they could go from what they’d just done to giggling right after.

“It does not have to be an or question,” Hollis replied.

“Where did this energy come from? You were so tired before,” Raleigh teased, wrapping her arms around Hollis’s neck and pulling her down against herself.

“It came out about the time I had your breasts in my hands.”

“What else do you want in your hands?” she teased further.

“Oh, I want something in my mouth right now,” Hollis told her, lowering herself slowly.

Raleigh closed her eyes as Hollis paid attention to her neck, breasts, and inner thighs, but when Hollis kissed the top of her clit, Raleigh’s eyes shot open. She wanted to watch this. Hollis took her slowly as Raleigh brushed the hair away from what she could see of Hollis’s face over and over because she didn’t want to miss anything. Hollis’s tongue did a swirling thing that nearly carried Raleigh over the edge, but then, she stopped and sucked instead.

“Don’t stop,” Raleigh requested.

Hollis’s head bobbed a little faster, and there was just something so sexy about a woman between her legs, head bobbing because she was sucking on Raleigh’s clit, trying to make her come. And Raleigh would come. She’d known it the moment she’d touched this woman: Hollis would get her there, and it would likely be amazing.

Raleigh’s hips lifted as Hollis slipped inside with what felt like at least two fingers, stretching her a bit because it had been a long time. Then, Hollis curled inside, and Raleigh felt the orgasm right there on its precarious precipice. She knew she could move Hollis’s head just a little, and her tongue would find the spot that would take her over, but she didn’t. Instead, she closed her eyes to enjoy this and let Hollis find it herself. When she did, Raleigh exploded.

“Fuck! Oh, shit! Fuck. God, Hollis. Jesus. I’m– Fuck.”

Raleigh held Hollis’s head between her legs and rode her face, likely making it impossible for Hollis to breathe, but an orgasm had never felt so good in her life. She knew her arousal was likely all over Hollis’s fingers and probably also a little on the sheets because the moment Hollis’s fingers had found her spot at the same time her mouth did, Raleigh had felt the gush of arousal instantly.

“Fuck. Fuck. Yes!”

A minute later, Hollis was kissing the inside of her thigh and looking up at her.

“Well, now I know you’re a sailor in the bedroom,” Hollis joked.

Raleigh let out a deep laugh that she felt like she’d been holding in for years.

“I have no idea where that came from,” she replied. “I’ve never done that before.”

“Which part? The obscenities or the…” Hollis looked down between her legs.

“What?” Raleigh asked.

Hollis moved back up her body, kissed her, and rolled off to the side. Raleigh sat up and noticed a small wet spot that wasn’t all that small, actually, now that she was thinking about it.

“Oh, my God. I…”

“Yeah,” Hollis said. “I believe the technical term is ‘squirted.’ My fingers kind of blocked it, though.”

“I…” Raleigh was mortified. She cupped her hands over her face. “I’ve never… I’m so embarrassed.”

“Hey,” Hollis said, sitting up and pulling at Raleigh’s hands. “It’s a compliment. I’ll take it. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. It’s a good thing. A very good thing.”

“I’ve never done that before.”

“No?”

“No,” Raleigh said, shaking her head. “God, I need to change the sheets. How the hell–”

“Just sleep closer to me. We can change them tomorrow,” Hollis suggested. When Raleigh then looked at her, Hollis asked, “Are you blushing because of that, or are you flushed because you came?”

“Does that have to be an or question?” Raleigh asked, laughing.

“Raleigh, I loved every second of what just happened.”

“You don’t have to say that.”

“I’m not,” Hollis told her. “God, you came all over my fingers, and I wanted more. I still want more of you,” she said, climbing back on top of Raleigh. “Can I?”

“I think I need a minute,” Raleigh replied, wrapping her arms around Hollis’s lower back as she straddled her. “But that was amazing, Hollis.”

“Yeah?”

“Yes. Oh, my God,” Raleigh said, closing her eyes and trying to take in the tingling sensation that was still making her body hum in pleasure. “I’ve never come like that.”

Instead of saying anything else, Hollis leaned down and kissed her slowly. Raleigh knew what she was doing. Hollis was going to kiss her through this break. Then, she would make Raleigh come again. But Raleigh didn’t want another one right now. She just wanted to climb on top of Hollis instead and stroke her until Hollis came again. Then, she wanted to sleep, wake up tomorrow morning, and touch her again.

“Hey,” Raleigh said.

“Yeah?”

“Will you lie down for me?”

“You don’t–”

“Hollis, I just want to lie on your chest and feel you against my fingers again.”

“ That’s what you want?”

“I want you again, yes,” Raleigh replied, flipping them over. “Then, again tomorrow, and again after that.”

Hollis stared up at her now and said, “It’s going to get complicated.”

“Tomorrow,” Raleigh replied softly. “We can worry about complicated tomorrow.”

“And tonight, we just have sex until we pass out?” Hollis asked, smiling.

“No, babe. I’m going to give you another orgasm, and then, you’re going to fall asleep for me because you need sleep, Hollis.”

“I can–” Hollis stopped talking when Raleigh touched her clit and started slowly moving up and down. It was still hard and swollen. “Oh, that’s good.”

“Close your eyes,” Raleigh said, resting her head on Hollis’s chest and listening to her heart race for a very different reason than before. “Just think about how good this feels. Don’t worry about anything else.”

When Hollis came, she was almost silent. Raleigh left her hand between Hollis’s legs until she heard slow, even breathing. Still not wanting to move her hand from where it was and also risk waking Hollis up in the process, Raleigh decided to keep it there as she thought about the woman beneath her and how touching Hollis made her feel. She thought about that spot on the sheet that she’d need to change and silently laughed to herself.

Then, she thought about how she should feel bad about what they’d just done. She hadn’t been working or looking for Eden. She’d been having sex. No, she’d been making love . That was what they’d done. They’d made love, and there was nothing wrong with that. There couldn’t be anything wrong with how Hollis made her feel because this feeling was something she’d been missing and wasn’t sure she could be without again.

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She woke the next morning to find Hollis unmoved. Raleigh’s hand had made its way to Hollis’s stomach during the night, and surprisingly, neither of them had rolled away in their sleep. Raleigh smiled at the scent of Hollis’s hair, which had somehow ended up draping a little over Raleigh’s face. It smelled of coconut. And sex. Yeah, it definitely smelled of sex, too. The stirring started in Raleigh’s belly and moved lower. She groaned internally, knowing she’d never be able to get through the day if she didn’t touch this woman again and let Hollis take care of the pulse that was now between her thighs. Raleigh moved slowly, but not slowly enough.

“Where are you going?” Hollis asked, trying to keep Raleigh in place.

“You’ll find out,” Raleigh told her, moving a little quicker now and ending up between Hollis’s legs, which she’s spread just enough. “Good morning.”

“It’s about to be, I think,” Hollis replied.

Raleigh kissed her thighs, licked them, and sucked on soft skin, letting Hollis wake up more before she moved her mouth to her center, spread her with her fingers, and stared at her.

“God, you’re wet,” she said as if she’d never seen a woman’s arousal before.

She couldn’t resist it any longer, though, so she dipped her tongue and licked, causing Hollis to twitch in surprise. She sucked until Hollis writhed beneath her and came hard. Then, Raleigh moved on top of her and kissed Hollis just as hard until she was flipped onto her back, and Hollis was thrusting inside her even harder, taking Raleigh higher and higher, until she called out Hollis’s name… and a few profanities.

“ Now , it’s a good morning,” Hollis stated as she breathed fast and hard against Raleigh’s body.