Chapter 28: Welcome to the Deep End
Nash drifted down the street, solo. Streetlights buzzing up above, painting everything in that sickly yellow haze on the pavement, while the underground cab carrying Amara vanished around the corner like a closed Chapter.
He didn’t rush. Didn’t check his phone. Didn’t fix his hair or adjust anything about himself. He just walked, thoughts turning over in his chest like slow water.
He had just had sex.
For the first time.
Not the pretend kind. Not the stuff you do in your head or under a blanket at 2 a.m. Not the fake bravado, not the porn soundtrack echoing in your skull.
Real. Actual. Sex.
Skin on skin, breath tangled up between bodies, hands everywhere, hips, moans, heat, sweat, mess, all of it, only the kisses missing.
And it was...
Phenomenal.
He hadn’t known it would feel like that.
Not just physically, though, even if that was crazy enough. His whole insides were fireworks. Warmth, her breasts moving under his hands, her body sliding against his, no guessing, no imagining, just raw, unfiltered reality.
The grip of her thighs, the hot slide of her hips against him, the sound of her breathless whimpers as she clenched around him, real. The moment of release, thick and loud and sticky, buried in heat so viscous it felt like drowning in ecstasy.