Yden had not denied Sheveks claims yet, and Shevek saw she was content in her obedience. It empowered him, and he began issuing more orders.
"Undress," he commanded, and he watched her disrobe. Shevek kept his face impassive, but her naked form moved him. Her skin was still pinched and red from her clothes, and her hips and buttocks were dimpled with extra weight. Her breasts were large, and they pointed toward him, and Shevek thought about how it might feel to press his chest against them. Blood rushed into his cock with such force Shevek wondered if he might cum right there, an erection and orgasm in one fell swoop. He gasped, and the feeling passed.
Shevek thought that he should undress too, but he was embarrassed. "Lay in bed," he ordered instead. He began stroking himself as he watched her lie down and pull the blankets up to her chin.
Then Shevek undressed, discarding his shirt and throwing his pants over the bedpost. He cast aside his underwear and faced the bed, bracing himself for laughter. He did not know why he expected humiliation, but it did not come. When he found the courage to look at her, he felt the warmth of her smile. Shevek looked down at his body and tried to see it as she did. He knew he was tall, nearly a head taller than her. He was thin, too, but still filling out, all sinew and muscle stretched over his long arms, legs, abdomen. He now had a patch of dark curls on his chest to match the dark curls on his head and groin, and the harvest time had baked him to a rich brown. Shevek swiveled in the light, casting a shadow of his profile on the wall behind Yden's head. Smerdya had said that Shevek's cock was big, and she was the only one to have seen it, and it had grown even bigger in the years since they had fucked.
Shevek did not see the same lust in Yden that filled his veins, but she studied him with interest and approval. She stared longest at his penis, but he suspected that was more due to novelty than anything else. Her gaze had weight and friction, and his cock throbbed intensely again under it, and Shevek willed himself to be in control. He strode to the bed, threw back the covers, and lay down beside his wife.
Shevek would remember the cicadas screeching outside their window, and, when he reached over to put his hand on Yden's stomach, a coyote baying into the night. Yden turned toward him as soon as he touched her, and they closed the distance between their bodies. Shevek crawled on top of her. "Open your legs," he said, and he remembered his first teacher in this subject. Yden spread her legs. It was his turn, but he could not be as gentle. "You are my wife," he said. Her eyes were now glossy, but she was smiling.
"It will hurt the first time," Shevek warned.