Episode 472: Stare At You

She was so beautiful. So soft. So much a dream come true. He had to study her. He had to run a finger over her glistening collarbone. Had to take the slightest taste of her upper arm. Just to know she was real.

He hadn’t meant to wake her. But once her eyes had fluttered open, and a smile to rival any sunrise greeted him, Bas didn’t feel particularly guilty.

"Hi." Her mouth reached up and kissed him. "How long have you been watching me?"

He shrugged. "An hour." He grinned. "Maybe more. You’re naked. Beside me. It’s a nice way to wake up."

Ava touched his face as reverently as she’d touched his body throughout the night. "I wish I’d stayed that night with you." She paused for another kiss, a good indication that the inability to resist was mutual. "This really is nice. I hate that at some point we really are going to have to wake up. I mean, there’s the stuff with your parents and figuring out our careers, and this is my birth mom’s house-"

"At the moment, those things are all pretty much at the bottom of my to-do list," he said, taking his own pause for a taste of her. "How about you?"

She grinned. "I think I could very easily be persuaded to stay right where I am."

Episode 473: Wrong Again?