Chapter 127: Pick up Where We Left Off
** Harper **
When Eli was finally finished with her, moving back up from between her legs after licking her clean, Harper was boneless. She draped over him limply like noodles as he scooped her up from the sofa, rearranging their bodies so that she was cradled in his arms, her back against his chest.
For a few breathless minutes, neither of them moved again or spoke. But there was no need to put anything into words. The sound of their uneven inhales and exhales, the scent of sweat and other body fluids hanging in the air, and the thrashing pulses of their heartbeats said more than enough. Harper let herself relax into the intimate silence as her body and mind slowly drifted down, returning to reality. Only then did she realize that Eli was slowly stroking her hair, in a seemingly casual but unmistakably endearing way that felt almost dreamlike.
The moment was too good to be true. And the things he just did to her, she could still barely believe it. Even her wildest wet dreams wouldn’t dare get that bold—
"I still can’t believe you did that," Eli said, interrupting her thoughts by apparently speaking out her thoughts.
"... That should be my line!" Harper gasped, shifting in his arms to look up at him. "What you did with your— your tongue ... I still can’t believe it’s even physically possible!"
He let out a low laugh, and he hugged her closer, planting a kiss on her forehead. The gesture was so adoring in an almost innocent way that if she hadn’t felt a hard twitch against her lower back, she would’ve been fooled.
"You asked for things that I hadn’t had the chance to do to you yet," he replied, nudging her closer into the crook of his neck. "That was just two of them. I have plenty more surprises up my sleeves."
Harper chuckled. Then she remembered his earlier comment. "What did I do that surprised you so much?"
The hand that was still stroking her hair slowed a beat. "The way you ... kissed me," Eli said. His voice had gone softer. "I just never thought that you ... Well, that you would be interested."
Harper blinked. She might’ve thought he was joking, if his expression hadn’t looked damn serious. "What are you talking about?" she asked incredulously. "Have you not seen yourself in the mirror? What makes you think a woman could possibly be not interested in someone like that naked in front of her?"