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deliriously right? That thought scared Dani. It really did.
She didn’t pull away, but Emily probably sensed it. She
wrapped her arms around Dani, holding her close. Close, but
not needy. Not clinging. Not forcing Dani to relent or change
her mind or be something she wasn’t. It felt natural to want to
be there in Emily’s arms, to want to wrap her own arms around
her in response.
“Just for tonight,” Emily whispered, snuggling closer.
Dani breathed in the rich scent of her hair, the scent of their
bodies, of sweat and desire and the pleasure they’d created and
shared with each other. She’d never done this before. She’d
never spent the night with someone. She went rigid and Emily
felt it. She pulled away a little and glanced up at her, but
instead of her face crushing with disappointment or anger or
confusion, she just smiled softly.
“Okay, maybe that’s too fast. I’ll wait until you fall asleep
and then I’ll go back to the couch.”
Dani didn’t have anything to say to that. She knew it was
dangerous to do that. But what would happen if Emily fell
asleep too? Would the world end? Would the ceiling cave in on
them and crush them because one of Dani’s unspoken rules
had been broken?
Just because she’d never done this before didn’t make it
wrong. It made her realize that she’d done all those things
because she was afraid. She did still need to protect herself,
but the urge wasn’t as strong. The impulse to run wasn’t there
like it usually was. She told herself she was getting things
confused and mixed up from the afterglow that was fogging
her head and cutting off her normal brain function.
Would it really hurt to fall asleep with someone? Would that
