I put my hands on his chest and started moving slowly on top of him. I moved back and forth at first until I was comfortable enough to start experimenting. When I was more confident, I started to move up and down until I could feel his cock slide in and out of me. I saw Seth’s eyes close in pleasure, and I moved faster, riding him hard until I could feel my body tingle again, a prelude to the orgasm that I knew was imminent.

We came together, with my hands on Seth’s chest and his hands on my hips. Our screams mixed together, creating a symphony of carnal delight. There was something almost poetic about it, and I felt a decade’s worth of longing merge with desire in that one moment. And suddenly, I felt complete. Suddenly, everything that was skewed before now tilted back in the right direction.

We lay in each other’s arms for a long time without talking. We were both entangled in our own thoughts for a while, and the silence was welcome. When I pushed myself up on my elbow, I realized dusk had fallen, and the sun was close to setting. When I looked back down at Seth, he was staring up at me with a smile on his face. His hand brushed the back of my spine, moving in gentle strokes that left a little trail of fire behind.

I leaned down to kiss him softly on the cheeks. He looked thoughtful, and I sensed there was something on his mind.

“Is there something you want to ask me?” I wondered out loud.

He smiled. “I suppose there is.”

“Okay,” I nodded. “Ask me anything.”

“You’re a beautiful woman…” he started. “And I know you were never short of suitors… I guess I’m just curious as to why you stayed a virgin for so long. It’s not like you didn’t have the choice.”

I smiled. “I’m surprised you have to ask.”

He raised his eyebrows.

“How could I sleep with any other man when all I thought about was you?” I said. “It felt wrong somehow; it felt dishonest. I didn’t want to be one of those girls who just had sex for the sake of having sex. I wasn’t going to do it to fit in. I was going to do it on my terms, when I wanted to, for the right reasons.”

Seth looked at me in awe. “You are amazing, you know that?” he said. “I’ve always admired that about you. You never caved in to pressure. You never let anyone else tell you how to feel. You did exactly what you thought was right, and you never let anyone else make you feel bad about it.”

“You make mistakes that way,” I said. “I wasn’t willing to make more mistakes than I needed to.”

“What if things had never happened between us?” he wondered.

“Then I would have waited for someone I felt as strongly about as I did with you,” I said. “Because otherwise it wouldn’t have been worth it.”

Seth smiled. “Was this worth it?” he asked. His tone was slightly teasing, but I could sense the seriousness underneath the question.

“It was,” I nodded, leaning in to kiss him again. “It was completely worth it.”