Page 123 of Replay
Awareness that there was a world beyond the two of them had just begun to rematerialize when she bussed her head up against his cheek, and then nibbled the curve of his chin.“Are you all right?”
“Hm.”
She nudged his shoulder with a couple of fingers.“Is that a yes?”
He tried to respond, but what came out first was a baying yawn.“Sorry.Oh, fuck.I’m totally cabbaged.”
“But you’re okay.”
Spook braced himself on his forearms, taking some of his weight off her, and managed to raise his ridiculously heavy head.“Think so, as long as you don’t want me to do anything that requires higher functioning.”
“All I want is as a promise that we can do this again.”
“Again?”He yawned into her shoulder.
“Can we?Spook?”She nudged him.
“What?”he gasped, attempting to look alert.She was preposterously radiant—glowing.A hot crimson blush streaked across her cheekbones.
“Can we do it again?”
“Maybe.”
“Only maybe?Obviously, I don’t mean right now.”
He chuckled into her shoulder.“Christ, woman, give a man a chance.I need brain cells to answer questions like that, and I’ve just blown them all.”The thrill of what they’d done was still echoing through his body.Not to mention her pussy kept twitching around him.
He didn’t really want to move, but certain practicalities needed to be dealt with.
Spook caught hold of the base of the condom, and withdrew carefully while watching her expression.He recognised the same wash of disappointment he felt as he slid free of her.Gingerly, he sat back on his haunches.Alle watched him, eyes glittering like tiger-eyes in the dim-light as he tied a knot in the condom and leaned over to dispose of it in the bin.
She wriggled off to one side as he did so, then leapt off the bed and scurried into the bathroom.“Two ticks, then I’m going to cuddle your arse off.”
Spook settled on one elbow, but he’d barely lain down before he sat up again.
The room was too quiet and lonely without her.He got off the bed, and was just raising his fist to knock when she opened the bathroom door.Her cheeks creased into a broad smile when she saw him standing there.“Miss me that much?”
“Are you okay?”he asked.
“I’m fine, Spook.”She wrapped her arms around his waist.“Plain old ordinary call of nature.Are you?”
Slowly, he nodded.“I’m beat though.”How Xane did this multiple times a day, every day, he couldn’t fathom.Practice, he guessed.
“Cuddles?”Alle tugged him back onto the bed, and tucked the duvet around them.“Come here, my sexy rock star, I want to smother you in a million billion kisses.”
“A million billion, eh?”
“Yeah, it could take a while, so don’t even think about moving for the rest of the night, okay.”
“Okay,” he drawled.“I don’t think that’ll be an issue.”
