This woman I love is smiling this morning.
I wake up and make sense of what I'm feeling, the warm caress of her soft skin moving across me as she comes in for a kiss.
"Mmm." I smile into her lips.
"Morning." She kisses me again, a soft slow smooch.
My tongue is a lizard in a dark cave, cool and slow and dumb. I taste her, smell her, remembering...
God we actually did it. I can feel something that combines a blush, a smile, and a sudden increase in blood pressure which pulses through me. I feel her warm body on top of mine as she pushes me to my back.
I bring my hands slowly up her thighs, my hands ache to grip and I get two handfuls of beautiful, round, pert female arse.
My caveman brain is the first to light up, tells me to have her right there, just like every other time.
I flex a little beneath her and she giggles.
"Pleased to see me?"
"Mmm." I hug her hips against mine, kiss her neck, enjoy the angel in my arms.
We could, right now...
I see her consider it. I can feel the bouncing, happy energy in her. I know it would be great, though I'd be hard-pushed to form a complete sentence this early.
Caveman brain flexes, perfectly happy to let the rest of me sleep. I don't need anything more to remember how to make love to this woman of mine.
"Coffee first." She kisses my cheek and then wrinkles her nose at my stubble. "And a shave."
"Alright." Two syllables, I'm getting creative.
We stay there, she rocks just a little against me.
Perhaps not. I kiss her neck again, run my left palm in a slow, wide circle over the contours of her naked back, down to her hips, her thighs, back around...
"Come on, you." She teases me with one more kiss and then slides from my lap.
I watch her stretch slowly, flex her shoulders before squaring up to the day ahead. Then I just watch her.
5'8", dark hair nearly to her hips, and smooth skin still a little tanned from the summer sun. A sly grin and deep dark eyes... You know, perfect.
Magnificent creature. Caveman brain grins in the darkness behind my eyes, tells me again that of all the women in the world, she's the one I woke up with. Hard not to smile at that, even after a hundred times.
I obey her and Caveman gets me out of bed making me stumble to my feet. Cold wooden floor beneath them, sunlight and the smell of sex in our bed.
She smiles at me, takes my hand and leads me to the kitchen while I follow the end of my bobbing, still-hard cock and give her backside a long look full of intentions.
She makes coffee while I hug her from behind, run my palms over her cool skin to keep her warm.
She turns around, two mugs between us. I step in close, so she's pressed between me and the counter behind her. Let her feel my continuing lust for her as we caffeinate and re-humanise.
I watch those eyes that seem the colour of oak now, but are wholly black in the moonlight. I watch her watching me, become fascinated with the glow of sunlight on her pale skin.
"I love you." I tell her, sometimes you just have to say it.
"I love you." She tells me. We share one of those soft kisses, I taste the sweet coffee on her lip and stroke the small of her back with my free hand.
I leave half of my coffee to cool, setting it down while she drinks, hands wrapped around the warm mug.
Perfect figure, I think. Though of course I would say that, being her biggest fan and all, she has a grace about her that drags my gaze over those curves.
My hands follow, my eyes close and I can feel the smile on her face as my companionable hug shifts to a lingering caress. I find it hard not to just sit her on the worktop and kiss her neck as we fuck and she giggles and tries not to spill coffee down my back, again.
I want to sink to my knees and give her my tongue, just to have the taste of her. The look she gives me when she wants to stop what we're doing, whatever we're doing, for a hard impulsive quickie against the nearest vertical surface.
She has this sudden wildness about her, the sunlight makes her dark eyes flash as she leans forward for a playfully hard kiss, her arm making that natural curve around my shoulder. When I pull away she closes her eyes, follows me with that lustful pout on her lips that cranks my heartrate.
Self-control, I think. Not yet...
One last kiss and I leave for a shower and a shave. Her skin smells like the bath oils from last night, it makes me smile. So does the lingering grip on my hand until we part.
Tepid water hits me in the face and more parts of my brain start to function. I scrub shower gel into my skin, rake sensation with my nails a little. I scratch at my arms, that old familiar itch that only goes away when you stop noticing it.
Bumps of white lines in rows, five bar gates, criss-crosses of old pain. Self-inflicted, because I'm
that
kind of screwed up. At least I used to be.
Time to get some ink on there. She suggested we get ones to match that could cover those old wounds but... maybe I'm just used to them now.
It's funny what occurs to you in quiet moments of solitude. I rinse myself one more time and then switch off, step out, look for a towel.
Just for a second I remember seeing the slow slide of towel from her flesh last night, I smile and pad back into the living room, swiping beads of water from my skin with my hands.
I grab the towel from the floor and make a mental note to keep up with the laundry more, standards to maintain for her.
I become aware of her watching me towel and shake my hair like a dog. I stop and look up.
"Morning." I grin. The better part of me breezes through the mental door and settles at the controls.
She's opted for a change in wardrobe and I can't say I disapprove. My black collared shirt from last night, casually abandoned in our passion.
And nothing else. She's fastened two buttons roughly in the middle, rolled the cuffs up to her elbows. It's cute the way she wears my clothes sometimes.
I'm the same way with our bed, the smell of her there from the night before, the glow of warmth on her side when she gets up. Sometimes when she has to work an early shift I bury my face in her pillow and sleep off our usual morning-goodbye fuck, dreaming about her before my alarm goes off.
There's a kind of almost-dressed that's sexier than naked. It's why burlesque is sexier than hard-core porn, the tease of almost seeing. It's why flirting with a stranger because she gives you a smile is more fun than putting a note in a stripper's g-string because she grinds in your lap.
The best thrill is one you have to work for, that's not the same as paying.
I can see so much and so little of her. She strides back from the bedroom, from her costume change. I look for her collar beneath mine but see only her skin, her hair pushed behind her shoulders.
Not sure whether I wanted her to be wearing it. That's a new thought.
She comes back to me with a hug, I drop the towel so I can hold her with both hands. Even as I'm thinking of doing the same to her, she pushes me back to the counter, takes hold of my chin between her fingers.
Forgot to shave...
She pulls back from the kiss, still holding me in place.
"What am I to do with you?" Her voice says she's asking but her eyes say it's rhetorical.
"Whatever you like, my love." I answer anyway and smile a little. I like calling her that.
She comes in to hug me again, snakes her arms beneath mine around to my back, gives me a squeeze.
I go to hug her back but she takes my arms, pushes them behind me. I realise she's holding something in her hand as she touches me.
Before I figure it out she has the leather ties around my wrists. I obey out of curiosity for the half-second she needs to tighten the knot and then, too late, the rest of my brain finally wakes up. She puts the loose end in my palm, reminding me I can get myself out but daring me not to.
I understand her wardrobe choice now. She is wearing the collar. My collar. The one I was wearing last night when I made this woman I love... Mine.
"What am I to do... with... you?" Her tone changes, she's really asking now.
I consider it for a second. Bits of me vote different ways. The bits of me that aren't fond of being pinched or twisted vote run away. The parts of me that were nothing but barren dirt before she came along trust her judgement.
I consider a sense of fairness. Maybe this is how she says thanks, or evens the score, or both. Maybe this is part of it too and she wanted to surprise me.
I am surprised...
In the end what tips the balance is trust. I trust her to know me, know how far I'm willing to go. I trust her to know the difference between pushing buttons and cutting stitches.
"Whatever you want to." I tell her. She doesn't smile, arches one eyebrow.
"Whatever you want to...?" She waits.