His hands encircled my breasts, and I opened my mouth to tell him to be gentle, I felt a little tender because of the pregnancy, but I didn’t need to tell him that. He read my body language, listening to every tiny sound and movement I made to make sure I was comfortable with his every move.
I was, and I was even more comfortable when Nate undid the clasp of my bra and helped me lift my tank top over my head so the bra could fall easily off my body. It felt incredible to be free - free of the past mistakes that had haunted me for so long and free of the clothes that separated me from feeling Nate’s strong heartbeat against my own. I transferred my heartfelt thanks through our most passionate kiss yet, silencing both our breaths with locked lips and warring tongues.
My hand brushed against the buckle of Nate’s belt. How convenient that my hand was already right there, I could go ahead and take that off right now. The belt came undone easily enough, but Nate chuckled when I struggled to pull it out from under his muscular frame.
Finally, he took pity on me and flipped us over, putting himself on top, shrugging his shoulders out of the unbuttoned shirt and losing the belt all in the same whirlwind movement. I liked this new development, and I loved the way Nate’s broad shoulders blocked out the dim light from the curtained windows, cloaking me in a protective shadow.
Now, I could clearly see the telltale outline of what I had been able to feel between my legs as I straddled Nate, and even just the slightest touch had Nate making tiny, needy sounds.
I decided not to make us wait any longer. Now that the belt was gone, it took only one last button and a few tugs to remove the last of his layers that were separating us. I went in for another kiss, and Nate used that kiss to lock me in place with gentle nibbles as he pushed my own jean shorts down my legs. My panties followed, leaving little damps spots on my inner thighs.
Nate noticed and I blushed a little, but we both knew that it meant I wanted him… badly. I knew he felt the same about me, and his hands caressed my thighs, moving ever closer to a destination that electrified my body with anticipation. Teasing seconds of trailing fingers along my hyper-sensitive inner thighs followed, each one feeling like an entire lifetime of waiting, but oh… when the fingers finally found the wetness between my legs, it was worth the wait.
The fingers moved up and down, rubbing until my entire body vibrated with need. When Nate opened his eyes to look at me after a kiss and found me giving him the stink eye, he grinned and kissed me again. His tongue slipped past the barrier of my lips, and I gasped when I felt something slip inside me too.
Finally.
I pulled Nate’s chest into mine, turning our long-awaited epitome of physical contact into a loving embrace. For a moment, we slowly moved back and forth, shifting away only to meet again at the same place every time, basking in each other’s closeness.
Soon, our temporarily-sated lust began to grow again, shooting urgency through our muscles and adrenaline into our veins. I moved my hands to Nate’s hips, struggling to keep my own hips still as the feeling ofin, outincreased. Everyindrew a moan from me, and everyoutonly made me want the nextinmore. I shaped one elbow into an L and tucked it underneath my head so that I could meet Nate’s eyes, letting the lust in them accelerate the rush of heat traveling from the tips of my toes to the depths of my mind.
Thready muscles popped out of Nate’s shoulders. He placed a hand beside me on the bed, using it to find places that shattered any ability I had to remain still. Where was his other hand? It had been on my hip, but now only a warm handprint remained there.
Bliss surged through me as every wonderful physical feeling doubled in potency.Oh. It’s down there.Pleasure chewed up those four words and spit them out again as “Oh, oh, oh, oh…” I couldn’t tell if my eyes were open or shut, but it didn’t matter because I could feel every single part of Nate’s body like it was my own. A little more, just a little more, we were so close. The urgency was coming to a head. Everything was morphing together at once.
If Nate hadn’t been on top of me, I would have floated off into the heavens in the geyser of pleasure that blasted through me. I knew absolutely nothing at that moment except that nothing had ever felt so good in my life, and if the feeling didn’t stop soon, I would never be able to float down again.
But I did float down, and I did so to find myself still wrapped in Nate’s arms. I was wrong. The feeling I just experienced wasn’t the best one of my life. This moment, right here with Nate was the best moment of my life.
“We have… five minutes to shower and check out,” I pointed out since Nate was still laying half on top of me.
“I’ll bribe the front desk.”
“Housekeeping is going to come clean up.”
“They won’t stay long when they see us.”
“Oh, my gosh… You’re so naughty,” I rolled my eyes, shoved Nate off me and went to the bathroom. As I expected, he couldn’t resist joining me after a couple of moments of watching steam leak out of the bathroom door. I grinned at him when he came in, and I tossed my hair, flinging droplets of water all over him. He jumped into the shower with me, tickling me into a fit of giggles before we got down to business.
As we packed the clothes I had strewn all about my room during my stay, Nate and I agreed that we would return the rental car and take my SUV back to the Hamptons together, spending the night somewhere along the way. When Nate heard about the motel I had stayed in on the way here, he insisted that he should be the one to choose the hotel on the way back.
But first, we agreed to drive around Somerset and check out all our old haunts. This idea made me a little nervous. I had already seen some of the changes around town, and the differences unsettled me. Nate insisted, though, so I drove us around after we dropped off the rental car.
“There’s that sushi place,” Nate said, pointing. “I can’t believe it’s still there.”
“Oh yeah!” My mood lightened immediately when I spotted the little restaurant squished between a dry cleaner and a pet store. “I don’t know how I didn’t see it when I looked around the other day.”
“Maybe you didn’t want to see it,” Nate suggested wisely, stealing a kiss from me while we were stopped at a traffic light. “Let’s check out the high school.”
Other parts of Somerset might have changed, but the high school was still the same as ever. Well, almost the same. “Oh, look, there’s a fence around this property now. And a gate at the entrance,” I remarked, shaking my head.
“Yep, times have definitely changed. I’m glad we’re not in high school anymore… under today’s circumstances.”
“Definitely… I like to remember feeling safe at school. The kids today have to deal with so much. And well, I guess, we haven’t really escaped from this either… We will have to deal with it too… in a few years, you know -”
“Yeah… but, we have plenty of time before we have to worry about that… Let’s not cross that bridge until we get to it. Now, can we take a left here on Main Street and drive past the high school ball field?” Nate suggested.
I steered left and drove slowly passed the bleachers. The scoreboard had been replaced with a new larger one. Nate rolled down the window, taking it all in. “This is where it started for us…”
