He kissed down her stomach, his hands at her hips, and she felt the bed at the back of her knees and sat down and he crouched and pressed his lips to her inner thigh and she reached out and touched his jaw and he looked up at her.

"Kit," she said.

"Yes," he said.

She held his gaze. "Don't be careful about this either," she said.

Something moved in his expression. "I wasn't planning to be," he said.

He drew her underwear down and off and pressed his mouth to her and she felt it immediately — the specific focused attention of him applied to this — and her...