He Divorced Me at His Ship's Christening, So I Held the Ship novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: Hold There

Filipa's POV

"Sit in the chair," I said. "And keep your hands on the arms."

Ruel looked at the little silver bullet in my palm, and then at me.

He had come up the loft stairs at nine o'clock, still in his work jacket, expecting a surprise.

I had lit three lanterns and spread the old nets into a long soft bench under the window.

I stood in front of it in nothing but my father's pea coat, open.

"What is that?" he asked, though he knew.

"I bought it in Pacific Beach this afternoon. The girl at the counter asked if it was a gift."

"What did you say?"

"I said it was a fee," I said. "For a pilot."

He laughed, low, and sat down in the battered wooden chair across the room from me.

He laid his hands flat on the worn arms.

"Like this?"

"Like that."

I let the coat slide off my shoulders and fall on the planks.

The lantern light moved on my skin.

He looked at all of me, slowly, and I watched his throat move.

I sat down on the edge of the net bench and pulled my knees up and apart.

Eight feet of dark floor lay between us.

I switched the toy on in my fingers, and it hummed, small and busy.

"Tell me how to do it," I said.

His eyes dropped to my hand and rose again.

"Touch it to the inside of your thigh. Just there."

I did.

The buzz ran up my leg and settled low in my belly, and I sucked in a breath.

"Slower. Draw it toward you."

"Like this?" I asked.

"Slow ahead, Captain."

I traced it up the inside of my thigh, one inch at a time.

My skin broke out in gooseflesh under it.

"Closer," he said. "Not on the clit. Beside it."

I put the little bullet against the fold beside my clit, and my hips came up off the nets.

"Oh," I said.

"I know." His voice was low and level. "Stay there. Don't chase it."

"Ruel, I want to."

"I know you do. Hold there."

I held.

The vibration hummed through me, close and not close enough, and I let my head fall back against the window frame.

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