Was She Slow?
M/F
Romance
Brittany cheeks grew hot beneath her fur, feeling embarrassed by a man she had never met and didn't actually exist. She had never had any doubts about the quality of her love life with her husband, Nathan. Not before. The two had great sex, both parties throughly enjoying themselves whenever they 'shacked up' in the bedroom, and regularly at that! Still, on this afternoon, she was worried.
"We were both thirty-six years old." Lee Child, in the voice of Jack Reacher, wrote. "All grown up. Not teenagers. We didn't rush. We didn't fumble. We took our time, and what a time it was. Maybe the best time ever."
Of course, Lee Child was not calling on Brittany's sex life in particular. It wasn't like her even knew her! Still, the shoe did seem to fit, as sex between Nathan and Brittany always seemed... frantic. Always 0-100. Sometimes it was short, lasting less than ten minutes. Other times they went for nearly an hour. They did it slow and gentle, they did it fast and hard. But no matter how they did sex, it always seemed like an explosion of passion rather than a carefully timed release. Frankly, until now, Brittany thought that was how everyone had sex. It was actually tough for her to imagine it any other way. This realization made her feel juvenile and inexperienced, which in turn made her feel vulnerable. Her job was to understand sex better than this, after all!
"Do I fuck like a teenager?" Brittany mused as she read more of the steamy passage.
She glanced over at Nathan, uncertain if he was awake or asleep. His eyes were closed and his measured breathing slow, as if he might have been snoozing. There were headphones in his ears, as if perhaps he was resting his eyes while listening to music or focusing on a podcast? She stared at Nathan for a while, feeling conflicted. She wanted to talk to him, but didn't want to disturb him. The longer Brittany stared, however, the more temped she was to rouse him. A small smile began to cross her lips, speaking of feeling like a teenager! The husky girl was feeling a case 'puppy love', like a teenaged girl obsessing over her first boyfriend. Was that strange considering she was pushing thirty, and the husky couple had been together for almost twelve years? Brittany supposed it shouldn't matter, who cares what anyone else thought about their sex life; so long as it worked for them?
Brittany, deciding she would rather not disturb Nathan, attempted to push the thoughts out of her mind and go back to her book. But that was difficult with four pages of steamy love making still left to read. In truth, it was hardly Brittany's favorite love scene ever put to paper. It was hard for her to become completely invested when she knew Jack Reacher would, in all likelihood, be on to his next partner before the end of the novel. Still, as Lee described Reacher requesting his dark haired love interest to take off her skirt, she couldn't help thinking of Nathan undressing her like that. Even though Brittany was already naked, and that did get her hot and bothered.
She rubbed her furry thighs together without even really thinking about it, and glanced back over at Nathan when she noticed his eyes had opened: if only slightly. He was looking at her through narrow slits, the scent of his wife's arousal having awoken the sleeping beast. "I guess I need to buy you more of those Lee Child books." It was a teasing comment, but carried a note of seriousness at the same time.
"I guess you do." Brittany giggled, placing the book to the side. She no longer caring about the brutal murders Reacher was trying to get to the bottom of. Eager, she was about to lunge for Nathan, her motor already revved up and ready to go, but before she could jump his bones she managed to stop herself. Brittany was still thinking about that line...
Nathan noticed her hesitation. He cocked his head curiously. "Something wrong honey?"
"Do you think we fuck like teenagers?"
Nathan titled his head even further with increased curiosity. The husky stud was caught off guard by the question and wondered where this was going. "I don't know..." Nathan said, after a prolonged time of silent thought. "If we are, is that a bad thing?"
"I don't know..." Brittany said after a long silence, struggling to describe what she was feeling. In the end, Brittany picked her book back up and read the passage that has spurred this particular train of thought.
"Feels like this could be describing us."
Nathan shrugged. "If this is your way of asking me to go slower, I can go slower." He volunteered agreeably.
He sat up from the pillows, stretching slightly to work a kink out of his back, before moving across the bed in slow motion. "Iiiisssss thiiiiiisssss slllllloooooowww eeeeeenougggggggh forrrrrrrr yooooooooou?" He said, drawing out his speech as if he were a recording played in slow motion.
Brittany laughed, throwing a pillow at Nathan. "Plenty!"
Nathan's slo-mo travel across the bed, predictably, ended at Brittany's snout. They kissed, just a peck on each other's lips at first, and then another. Brittany stared deeply into Nathan's green eyes, and his stare bored right back into Brittany's mismatched gaze as the couple expressed their feelings for one another, feelings to complex for words yet perfect for silence. Brittany was hungry for more, again: her motor was already revved. But this was an experiment. To see how it felt to take just a little more time.
And take their time they did. For a long time, the longest ever perhaps, the husband and wife just kissed. Not even a kiss really, it was more like they nibbled at one another. Funnily enough, it was the closest Brittany felt like being a 'teenager' in a long time. She felt 18 again, the first time Nathan and Brittany had kissed in the back seat of her old Bronco, back when she still wasn't sure whether she liked boys or not. Instead of confidently moving forward with their love making, they both seemed uncertain what moves to make or when. Should they press forward, or maybe they'd already pushed things too fast? Still, that wasn't exactly a complaint, however. It made her relationship with Nathan feel new all over again. Not that it had started to feel stale or anything, but it had been a long time since Brittany had felt that youthful rush.
After a while, though, nibbling wasn't enough for either of their appetites. They had to press forward. The couple quickly started getting a little more handsy with each other, their kisses becoming both longer and deeper. Brittany could tell they were about to go off the rails, but they took a deep breath in unison and managed to stay on the tracks... for the moment at least. Taking it slow was starting to get a little easier, even as the sparks between them continued to fly. Time had started to lose all meaning, and just as Brittany was starting to come around to the Jack Reacher style of love making she sorta forgot why, or even what, exactly they were doing. It was time, by wordless yet enthusiastic consent, to proceed.