Chapter 21: Tin Roof

She came into my arms and her bandaged hands found my shirt.

I kissed her.

It wasn't the careful kiss from the diner or the hungry one in her sitting room.

It was slow, and deep, and it went on until she was making small sounds against my mouth.

"Nolly," she said.

I stopped.

She leaned back and looked at me with her grey eyes bright.

"I'm not slipping this time," she said. "I'm saying it. Nolly."

"Say it again."

"Nolly."

I picked her up and sat her on the edge of the bed with her knees on either side of mine.

The rain beat on the tin roof over our heads.

I pulled the cafeteria sweatshirt over her head and dropped it on the floor.

She had nothing on under it.

I looked at her in the grey lamplight, at her small breasts and the faint tan line of her collarbone.

The scrape on her cheek was healing.

"You're staring," she said.

"I'm allowed to."

"Yes." Her voice was rough. "You are."

I put my mouth on her breast and she cried out and arched, her wrapped hands closing on my shoulders.

I licked her nipple until it was hard against my tongue, and moved to the other one.

She fisted the back of my shirt as far as the gauze would let her.

"Take it off," she said. "I want to see you."

I pulled my shirt over my head.

She laid both palms on my chest, bandages and all, and I felt the soft scrape of the gauze over my skin.

She traced the burn scar on my forearm, then bent and put her lips on it.

I shut my eyes.

"You didn't let me do this," she said against the scar. "Not in two years."

"You never asked."

"I'm asking now."

"Then do it."

She kissed the scar the whole way up to my elbow, slowly, and by the time she lifted her head I was shaking.

I laid her on her back on the narrow bed.

I pulled the track pants down her legs and threw them across the room.

She lay bare under me, flushed all down her chest, with her knees falling open.

"Look at you," I said.

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