The Hidden Route Picked the Friend novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Free Lantern
The cottage door had barely shut behind them when she pushed him against it.
It stood on a cliff above the water, a fisherman's house of whitewashed stone that Anselm had lent them.
It had one room, one bed, and a window that took up most of the seaward wall.
The sea was black out there.
A band of silver ran across it, from a moon coming up over the water.
They had stopped on the way in to look at it for an hour.
Neither of them had said a word.
Now Briony had both hands flat on his chest and her mouth on his jaw.
"Lantern," she said.
One hung from the ceiling beam on a hook.
He lit it.
It threw a warm circle across the whitewashed walls.
He turned to her, and she looked at him in the light.
The sea wind blew in the open window, and the smell of salt lay on everything.
He was twenty-eight years old, free, sunburnt across the nose from the long ride, and he was waiting for her to say.
It undid her every time.
"Undress," she said.
"All of it."
He did.
He stripped in the lantern light with his eyes on her, unhurried, laying each piece on the chair.
He stood bare.
The long lean body, the old white scars, the scar through his eyebrow, the cock already full and rising.
"Kneel."
He knelt on the plank floor.
The lantern lit one side of his face.
She crossed the room with her hair down and her green gown rumpled from the road, and stopped in front of him.
"Tonight," Briony said, "I want everything."
"Yes."
"I want it slow and I want it filthy.
I want to hear you.
And when I say stop, we stop, and when I say go, you go."
"Yes."
"And you'll tell me what you want."
His eyes lifted to hers.
"I want you to take that dress off," he said.
"Slowly."
She laughed softly.
She reached behind her, found the laces, and loosened them one by one.
She let the gown fall.
She stepped out of it in her shift, and then she drew the shift over her head.
She stood naked before him with the sea wind lifting the hair around her shoulders.
He looked at her.
He looked for a long time, on his knees, with his hands open on his thighs.
His breathing roughened.
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