When her breathing calmed down and she released my now quite sore shoulder, I whispered in her ear "Jesus, baby, you have no idea how sexy it was to hear you come for me."

"Really?" she asked into my throat.

"Hell, yes." I was still holding her tight against me and kissed her forehead.

"I didn't mean to do that. Not yet, I mean." She let her voice trail off as if debating what she was going to say, then continued. "A few nights ago, I was laying in a room at the Palazzo in Rome getting myself off to a fantasy of the first time you touched me like...