His Letters Reached Me Fourteen Years Late, and the First Said Goodbye novel · Chapter 8 of 24

Chapter 8: The Narrow Bed

My old bedroom was at the top of the stairs, under the slope of the roof.

The bed was narrow, and the quilt on it had been mine since I was nine.

My mother had left it exactly as it was.

The corkboard still had a ticket stub pinned to it.

A dried corsage had gone brown in the corner.

I had not been able to stand in that doorway for two weeks.

On Friday it rained from noon on, drumming on the porch roof below the window.

Alister came up the stairs after his shift at the power company with his boots in his hand.

He stopped on the threshold and looked at the room.

"I haven't been in here since I was twenty," he said.

"You were mostly on the fire escape," I said.

"There's no fire escape," he said.

"There was the porch roof. You used to climb it."

"Your mother knew," he said.

"My mother knew everything," I said, and he laughed, and shut the door.

I pulled him to the bed.

He sat on the edge of it, and it creaked, and we both looked at it and then at each other.

"It's very small," Alister said.

"We'll manage."

I pushed him back onto the quilt. He went down with a grunt and lay looking up at me with his hands on my hips.

I unbuttoned his shirt slowly. I took my time over the scar along his ribs, and over the line of hair down his stomach.

He watched me, not blinking.

"You're staring," I said.

"I'm allowed," he said.

"Be still," I said.

"I'm trying."

I took off my sweater and jeans and panties, and the rain went on, and as I shoved his jeans down to free his thick, hard cock, I felt his breath leave him all at once.

I straddled his hips, gripped his cock in my hand, and sank down onto him until he was buried deep in my wet pussy.

It was my choice, and my pace.

I set it, rolling my hips so my clit ground against his pelvis, and he let me.

His hands came up to the small of my back and held tight as I rode his hard length.

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