Rule Four of the Lease Said No Overnight Guests novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: Hannah's Bed

"Stay," Lena said. "All night. Rule Four says no guests."

"I thought you were the owner."

"I am. That makes you the exception."

It was her bedroom, at a quarter past eleven, and I had never been inside it.

The bed was a huge wooden frame that she had built with her own hands, with a quilt of faded yellow squares.

One lamp burned on the nightstand.

On the other nightstand, a pair of glasses sat folded beside a paperback.

The glasses had been dusted recently.

I stood at the foot of the bed in my coat, holding the manila envelope against my chest.

"Lena, I have to show you something."

"After." She took the envelope from my hands and laid it on the dresser, face down. "Please. Let me do this first."

Her voice was low and uneven.

I looked at her, and she looked scared.

"I haven't had anyone in this bed," she said.

"Do you want to?"

"I'm afraid that if I do, I'll stop being sad."

My eyes filled.

I crossed the room and took her face in my hands.

"You won't stop missing her," I said. "I'm not asking you to."

"Then what are you asking?"

"Only for tonight."

She closed her eyes.

Then she pulled me in and kissed me, slow and deep, and the fear went out of her shoulders.

We undressed each other without hurry.

She slid my coat off, then my sweater, then my jeans.

Each time, she bent and pressed her mouth to the skin she uncovered.

I unbuttoned her flannel, and I kissed the hollow of her throat above the ring.

We stood naked beside the bed in the lamplight.

Her hands moved over my hips, my waist, my breasts.

"You are so soft," she whispered.

"You're so strong."

"Not tonight."

She lay back on the quilt and drew me down after her.

I settled over her, thigh between her thighs, my hands on either side of her head, and I looked at her.

Her eyes were wide and wet and grey as the rain.

"Face to face," she said. "I want to see you."

"I'm here."

I kissed her mouth, her chin, her throat, and I took one pale breast into my mouth.

She arched under me and gasped.

"Mina."

I sucked and licked, and my hand drifted down over her ribs, her flat stomach, the sharp curve of her hip.

She spread her legs for me.

I cupped her pussy, hot and soaking, and she moaned into my hair.

"You're so wet."

"For you."

I stroked her slowly from entrance to clit, and she lifted her hips into my hand.

"Inside me," she said. "Please."

I pushed two fingers into her.

She was tight and slick and burning, and she clenched around me, and her mouth fell open.

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