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unbuttoning my jeans and sliding them down to the floor. “Ha, you’re sneaky. When did you do this?” I ask.
    “While I was waiting on you to come home.” His tongue teasingly swirls around my belly button.
    I suck in a sharp breath. “Ah, this is why you wanted me to come to bed?”
    “Mmm hmm,” he mumbles.
    When he’s gotten me fully undressed, I watch as he straightens his body, pushing his boxer briefs to the ground. I reach out to grab his erection. He smiles as I do. “I wish I didn’t have to wait. I mean, it’s not like anyone would know that I didn’t keep the promise. It’s not like I’m in high school and if I got pregnant it would be the end of the world.”
    He pushes my hand away and shakes his head. “Stop it. Stop.”
    I feel like a child. I hate it when he scolds me like that. He kisses my forehead. “You know you’d regret it. You’d know. That would be enough.”
    “I hate that she knows what it’s like to be with you and I don’t,” I whisper.
    He pulls me into his arms. “She may have been with me, but I wasn’t with her. I was, but I wasn’t. Does that make sense?”
    I shrug. “I guess.”
    He pushes me back and tilts my chin. “When we’re fully together, Gabby, it will be a first for me.”
    “How?”
    “It will be the first time I’ve ever truly made love to a woman. The first time that I loved the woman more than anything in this world. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for you.” He softly kisses me. “You have a part of me that no one, and I mean no one, has ever had before.”
    I cup his head in my hands and kiss him back with everything I have in me. I pull back. “Thank you.”
    “Let’s get in before the water gets cold.”
    “Okay.” He holds my hand while I climb into the water.
    I have my back against his front. He’s massaging my shoulders and kissing my neck. “We moving you this weekend?”
    “I hope so. I have some stuff that I really need.” I sigh. “I hate the idea of moving twice in a month, though.”
    “I was thinking we’d put the stuff you don’t immediately need in storage until we move into the big house.”
    “The big house?” I laugh. “More like the huge house.”
    “Our house. How’s that?”
    I turn my head to where our noses are touching. “I like that.”
    He picks up the bottle of coconut body wash, pours it onto the aqua loofa, and then lathers it. He pushes my hair to the side and starts washing my shoulders. It feels incredible. I don’t think I will ever get used to this, even if he did it every day for the rest of my life. “Ah,” I moan. “That feels so good.” I close my eyes and let my body completely relax into his arms. He pushes me off of his chest so he can wash my back. When he’s done, he makes his way to the front. When his hand reaches my breasts, the relaxation is gone instantly. Instead desire is turned on, and my body comes to attention. I turn around and cup his face. “I wish we didn’t have to wait. It’s killing me. This is killing me.”
    “Not budging, Gabby.” He is completely serious and his eyes are hooded. I don’t know how he can be so strong about it when he knows what he’s missing, and I don’t even know. “Don’t you miss it?”
    “Miss what?”
    “Miss sex.”
    He throws his head back laughing. I don’t think it’s very funny. “Of course. But it’s not like I’ve taken an oath to permanent celibacy.”
    “Oh I hope not!” I can’t help but laugh.
    “Let’s get out of here. The water is getting cold, anyway. There aren’t many things I hate more than being in a cold bath.” He uses his arms to push off the sides of the tub and stands. Then he offers me his hand to help me get up. When I step out of the tub, he has a towel waiting for me. He wraps me in it and moves his arms up and down, drying me off and warming me up all at the same time.
    He kisses my forehead. “If this is too hard.” He closes his eyes. “If us being together so much is too