Part 41 (2/2)
She kept moving her hand, her gaze rising to his face, seeing the tightness, the focus, the pleasure that she was giving him.
Then she felt his body jerk as thick white liquid spurted from him.
He called her name between panting breaths. Then he lay still. And when he circled her shoulder and pulled her down to lie beside him, she felt a kind of pride that astonished her.
She had done something very simple and basic, and yet doing it had freed her in a way that she hadn't expected.
”Thank you,” he whispered.
”I'm glad I did that.”
”Oh, yeah.” He clasped her close, and they rested there for a long moment.
”When I was little, I would be in my bedroom, and I would hear my momma with Jandar. I would hear them talking and laughing. Then I'd hear their breathing get fast, like panting. I didn't understand it, and I'd put the covers over my head. I thought he was hurting her because she was his slave and she had to do anything he wanted.”
He made a rough sound. ”I heard my parents, too. But I guess I knew they were having a good time.”
”How?”
”From the way they were together when they weren't in bed. She'd be cooking dinner and he'd come up behind her and kiss her neck or do something else, and I knew that when they got in bed, they were going to enjoy each other. That's what I want for us.”
”He didn't dominate her?”
He s.h.i.+fted next to her. ”That's a problem in my family. The guys tend to be commanding, at least in my father's generation. But with my brothers and my cousins, the marriages are more of a partners.h.i.+p.”
”A partners.h.i.+p,” she murmured, trying to imagine it.
They lay warm and relaxed together for another few minutes, until he stirred. ”We should go home.”
”To your house?”
”Yes.”
She nodded, knowing that another chapter in her life was about to unfold. Another chapter in this new world.
”I'll help you break camp,” she said.
”Thanks.”
They both pulled their clothes back on. Then he took a hat with a sun visor from his duffel bag and handed it to her.
”Put this on, and tuck your hair up under the cap.”
”Why?”
”So you look a little different. Just a precaution in case anybody notices us driving around together.”
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