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“Let’s stay like this all night,” Enid suggested, pushing Caroline’s hair away from her face.

Caroline normally would’ve pulled away by now, pretending like she needed to check a message on her phone or grab a drink of water, but with Enid, she didn’t need or want to move at all.

CHAPTER 25

“You have to be quiet,” Caroline told her.

Enid had to laugh at that. She couldn’t possibly be quiet. Caroline’s head was between her legs, and she was about to make her come.

“Enid!” Caroline admonished her in a whisper before she kissed Enid’s thigh and rested her cheek against it. “Your little br–”

“Donotmention him while you’re doing that,” Enid cut her off.

Caroline laughed softly, and Enid felt her hand move until there were fingers inside her, keeping still but filling her up in that way Enid hadn’t even known she had needed this morning.

“You have to be quiet,” Caroline repeated.

Enid nodded, and Caroline moved back into position. She licked Enid and began flicking her fingers deep inside her. They had only had the one round the previous night before they’d dressed for bed right when Enid’s brother had lumbered loudly up the stairs. He had gone straight to his room, but Enid had known by then that she only wanted to hold Caroline for the rest of the night, so they had done just that. Around midnight, after her parents had gone to bed, Enid had tiptoed down the stairs to get them drinks and a snack, and they had eaten while they’d watched a movie and talked more about their families.

From what had been shared with her, Caroline clearly had some things she needed to work out with her parents. They’d been the classic overinvolved, helicopter parents, and it made Enid wonder if that was at least in part because Caroline was their only child. In contrast, when Enid was six, her parents had to split their focus between an active first grader who had liked to learn and an infant who had needed them to roll him over. Enid had a lot of respect for her parents, who hadn’t ever made her feel like they spent more time with EJ than with her or that he was more important. In fact, they had never made her feel lonely or the opposite, like they had these ridiculously high expectations that she wasn’t meeting, which she appreciated.

They’d fallen asleep around two in the morning, fully clothed, even though Enid had locked the door because she wanted to be extra careful, and she’d held Caroline most of the night. They’d had to separate at one point because Caroline was a furnace when she slept, so Enid had needed to cool off, but when she’d woken up not all that long ago, Caroline had been spooning her from behind, and it had been perfect. Well, it had been perfect up until Enid had remembered that they were in her teenage bedroom because she lived with her parents. This had not been her ideal way of waking up with her girlfriend, and she had said as much to Caroline, who had then asked her how she’dwantedto wake up.

Now, Caroline was about to make her come, and Enid needed to be quiet. She covered her mouth with her hand, biting down on her bottom lip, and when she came, she managed to keep in the scream she wanted to let out but couldn’t stop the deep, throaty moan that came after. Caroline had a way with her tongue that Enid hadn’t ever experienced before. She knew that she could come again. If Caroline kept it up, trying to wind her down, she would only bring Enid back up to the precipice, so shetapped Caroline’s head with her other hand and dropped the one from her face in order to open her mouth and finally exhale.

“Jesus… That was good,” she let out.

“Yeah?” Caroline asked as she moved up Enid’s body.

“The best way to wake up,” Enid said and wrapped her arms around Caroline’s back, holding her in place. “You’re still fully clothed, though. Why?”

Caroline chuckled and kissed Enid.

“Well, when I woke up, I decided to go down on you, so that was my number one priority.”

“We should remedy that,” Enid suggested.

“Later,” Caroline said.

“You don’t want…”

“I do, but I also don’t,” Caroline replied. “I really just wanted to do that to you.”

“But now, I want to do that toyou,” she noted before she heard a door open and close.

It was EJ. Enid listened closely for the sounds of his loud footsteps, expecting him to either go to the bathroom or down the stairs and wanting to know which one he was about to choose. Seconds later, she heard him practically rush down the stairs, and not long after that, she heard the garage door under her bedroom open.

“Oh, thank God,” she added, letting out a breath. “He’s gone.”

Caroline laughed and said, “We should get moving, too. We both have to be on campus today.”

“Ugh. Stupid project team meeting,” Enid groaned. “I fucking hate this project.”

“I know, baby,” Caroline replied and kissed Enid’s lips. “Hey, what are the chances that we can take a quick shower together? I promise, no sex. I just need to clean up, if you know what I mean.”

Enid lifted an eyebrow and asked, “Yeah?” When Caroline smiled, Enid rolled them over and said, “Let me touch you.” Caroline laughed, so Enid whispered against her lips, “Now, it’s your turn to be quiet.”

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