"Jay, I love you. Dearly. I love all the love we've ever made, in all the ways we've made it. If we stop this now, and never try this again, I will love you madly until the end of my days." I prepared to pull out of her and prove that none of this ass stuff mattered. She felt that and her hand whipped around and landed on my ass and held me down.

"Right answer," she said. "Push. Carefully. Slowly."

I pushed. Carefully and slowly.

Tina and Dawn were on either side of Jay, murmuring encouragement. Mary Beth was rubbing Jay's back. I was concentrating on slowly sinking six...