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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the Good Bits. This excerpt from Madeline Ashes
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Edwin slept in my bed, still sleeping now. One truth
held his exploration of me would be too much tonight.
But that didn't mean I couldn't explore him. The idea
lit me up so intensely. I inched across the mattress,
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the first man I'd wanted to touch for his own sake.
I wasn't ready to find my own pleasure, to have
Edwin find it for me, but to find his that
unearthed a new Clawing within me. Holding my breath, I
pressed a palm into his shoulder blade and slid it
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slowly down his back. No reaction. Edging closer, I fanned
my fingers and swept my touch outward along his side.
My fingertips curved over onto his bare stomach, smooth skin, sensitive, warm,
and still. He challenged me, even in sleep, lifting my
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head onto his pillow so close his body heat met
with mine. I placed an open mouth kiss to the
soft hollow behind his ear, pressing my tongue against his skin.
That woke him. He sprang into consciousness, body jolting as
he gasped in the dark. To ground him, remind him
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of where he was. I kept a hand on his
waist and moved even closer until my breasts and thighs
grazed against him. His breath out was shaky.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Hello, Hi.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I tilted my chin up, took the lobe of his
ear in my mouth. His naked back was hot, hard.
I wanted to eat him whole. He shivered.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Can't sleep anywhere but the middle?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Huh, not sleeping? I murmured over his shoulder, his beautiful,
edible shoulder. In a surge of boldness, my hands spread
around him, one sliding over his shoulder and down his chest,
the other drifting to circle low on his stomach. Very awake,
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His abs tensed beneath my touch.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I can do awake.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He started to turn into me. Wait. I held him
in place. He'ds did our earlier kiss. It was my
turn to be in control. Don't turn around. He angled
his head toward me, his colorless features confused in the
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faint light.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I want to touch you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I want to touch you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
First.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Tension held him coiled as he hesitated, Then, with a
rough exhale, he reached a hand behind him to grasp
the back of my thigh, settling more securely against me,
his ass melding into the cradle of my hips. Vomission granted.
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My breath stung in my throat as I trembled with
everything I wanted to do to him and have him
do to me. His breath caught as I thumbed the
band of his pants. The flush of reaction spreading through
me only flared when his hand joined mine to help
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unbutton him. Freed with pants dropping to the floor, he
caught my fingers in a shawl grip.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Promise me I can do this to you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He turned his head half facing where I clung behind him.
I could feel him against my knuckles, erect, sleek like
wet glass. The thought of holding him made me dizzy.
I promise, Matching the bend of his body, I pressed
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my cheek to his back and rose my grip up
to his tip, again, getting a feel for him richard,
yet smooth as silk. I swallowed down a shaky breath
and started to stroke him. God carry He found my
other hand, guided it up his chest, flattened it against
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his skin. If I thought my pulse was running so
frantically his would never catch up. I was wrong. His
wild heartbeats flew as fiercely as my own. Vaguely I
recognized it as a problem. Palms over pounding, hearts, my
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name spoken in gratification, a sensation unfolding in my chest
that achingly reached for him. But I didn't care, because
this was everything. Hips tucked hard against him, Breasts are
tight and straining for his touch, desire, hitching at his
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uneven stifled breaths, and safe, erotic, infuriatingly unsatisfying, but safe
until clothes off. He spoke a split second before he
started to turn. Startled, I snatched my hands away to
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hold him in place, pushing at his shoulder blades. If
he turned, I might end up beneath him, and we
both knew where that would lead. Groaning, He let himself
be restrained.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, you can do it, take.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Off the only layer between us. What happened to not
wanting to rush me? His body stilled.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You woke me up for this, carry not the other
way around, and call it ironic, since I'm basically a
peasant and a penthouse right now.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But I'm not into power and balances.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He lifted his head, eyeing me over his shoulder in
the dim city line. His expression was wary.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
If I'm naked, so are you.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You'd prefer me to stop and stay in my pajamas.
You can't be.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'll take a satisfying shower.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He was serious.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
But lying here.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Naked and facing it no one while you're covered up
behind me, I might as well come alone.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
He shook his head, and his next words came out
soft with indignity.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I've accepted I can't have commitment from you, Garry, but
don't make me feel cheap.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was like Hed pushed me off the rooftop. My
gut warped as I hit his truth. Too busy protecting myself,
I hadn't realized the position I'd put him in. It
felt like sin to cheapen the most precious man in existence.
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You're right, I wriggled away from him, cold with shame.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He didn't turn around. I rolled off the bed onto
my feet. My shorts and underwear came off faster from standing.
Then I was crawling across the covers and imprinting my
body against the back of his. The sensation of hot
naked skin would have driven my hand straight to his
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erection if I weren't so focused on fixing this. I
pressed my mouth to his shoulder once twice. I'm sorry, edwin.
Slowly he relaxed against me, loosening, accepting I didn't mean
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to make you feel cheap. My mouth hardly lifted from
him as I spoke his skin on my tongues, the
hiddy scent of his bedroom times a thousand. It's not
that you don't mean enough to me.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
You mean too much.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I don't know how to do all the things you
can do, talk, observe, empathize. I don't have experience as
I considerate lover. It's okay, he twisted, meeting my eyes,
searching for something I hadn't realized I was giving him
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until he took it with a small, cautious smile. I
want this to be good for you, he'd said he
wouldn't take pleasure from me without ensuring I felt it
in return. Yet I clearly couldn't get it right for
either of us. But intimacy isn't my thing, and I
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don't know how to come here. He reached an arm
behind him, circling my waist and sliding me over his side.
Suddenly I was in front of him, naked, in front
of him. Heat filled my face, my blood as his
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grip shifts to caress my side. Voice thick, he murmured.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
How could you hide this from me? And before you
start thinking?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He cupped a hand over my eyes until I closed them.
Just feel the tender skimming of his lips over mine,
seeking entrance. His mouth felt hotter than it had earlier, richer,
and I sank onto the covers into his kiss. Slowly
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he touched me, stroking his hands over my breast, waist,
shoulders reawakening. I wound my arms around his neck to
draw him closer. He smiled teeth against my lips as
his fingers made their way down to toy low, and
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my stomach shivers erupted at my navel. How had I
not known my belly was so intensely sensitive, sending his
caress shooting like sparks down between my thighs. He moved
on over my hip to grasp my ears, a hold
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that from past lovers had felt dominating, but now felt
intimately erotic. He palmed me in a wide circle before
moving up My spine, taut and trembling, I half lifted
myself onto my side, reaching out as I wrapped around him,
his rigid patience fell away in a rush. He thrust
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into the barrel of my curved hand. He's grown, betraying
how close I'd brought him earlier. Please, yes, I said, hardly,
breathing from my own ache. I wanted, if only I could.
It was so hard to think beyond him, Edwin, His
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lips lifted a distracted smile, perhaps because his name had
triggered all of this tonight, or perhaps just because he
liked to hear me say it, Edwin, I said again,
under my breath as I kept stroking him, my movements
growing rougher to match the slight flex and fall of
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his hips. Top lip pressed against my forehead, he asked, unsteadily,
Can I touch you? If I hadn't been so close
to my own edge, clenching around nothing, I'd have been
too worried to agree. If it hadn't been sure i'd
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come from a mere graze of his knuckle, I wouldn't
have risked it. But I was and desprefer him to
touch me.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
A twisting, grasping, begging need, he guided me to the
edge beside him, and I trusted him to take me
over with him.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yes, okay, I said yes. His hand trailed down my middle,
right to where I burned.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Slick for him.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
As he slid over me for the first time, my
body both yielded and tightened, inviting him, even as my
tension built for more.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
He stroked me once twice too many times, and when
my own hand moved faster over him, forcing him to
pick up the pace if we were to do this together.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
He gave a breathless laugh and pushed a finger inside me.
A crackling bolt of pleasure shot through me, growing steady
air as he withdrew and added another. It took less
time than.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I thought possible. This search had been building since he
had first turned up and caught me watching him across
the denserl his green gaze, sparkling lips upturned in curious appreciation,
months in the making, and every second of the past week,
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driving me to breaking point. His disarming flirtations, his thoughtful gestures,
his compassion and candor, and the all consuming feel of
him thrusting.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Inside me curry.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He led me not in tight but starting to split
at the scenes into the blinding white of release, hitting
me like a fist, my whole body wrapped around the
sensation as it burst, magnificent at my core, slowly my
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return to myself. We were both breathing hard. His fingers
were deep inside me, and my hand was slick with
his release. Our body is tangled, skin, hot and damp,
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and in the past I'd have been mortified by the
sticky reality of such aftermath. Thank you, I murmured, sinking
onto my back with a sigh. One side of his
mouth lifted in a smile.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
That's you.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Then he shifted, kissing me softly. After cleaning up, we
lay facing each other. He brushed his fingers through my hair,
eyes closed, and I traced invisible parts across his chest.
The moment was silent and tender, and deep inside me,
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so far down I couldn't tell if it was the
back of my mind or the bottom of my heart.
Something took an unsettled step forward, something frightened and shy,
so severely battlescarred it should never have survived this long. Alarmed,
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I snatched my hand away. No matter how hard I'd
worked to keep it shielded, no matter how I'd deflected, blocked,
and protected, the love left in me had finally noticed Edwin.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
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Speaker 3 (16:48):
By Madeline Ash.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
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