The silence stretched, but she didn’t press, continuing to lightly run her hands up and down my sides. xnx Neither free, both bound by something deeper than punishment alone—companions in a purgatory neither had chosen. Her hands instinctively ran down his sides, tracing the contours of his toned body, before they settled on his abs. She needed me, and given the situation, I couldn’t bring myself to turn her away. “Strip out of your clothes” I told her, my voice low but insistent, “and put on the clothes by the door.”
She hesitated for a moment, as if not understanding the urgency, but then her eyes flickered to the pile of dry clothes lying on the floor nearby. I can’t do it, she realized, tears freezing on her cheeks as the world around her seemed to close in.
