Audie concentrated on the sway of Beth’s hips as the music pulsated, appreciating for herself what Regan had checked out. Beth had a great figure for a leather miniskirt, and her spandex top showed off every dip and curve.
Audie didn’t usually dance with someone like this, four feet apart, unless it was one of those rare moments of boredom when she took to the floor with Dennis. She preferred to be closer… much closer. She liked having her hands all over her partner, pressing against her in a grind that heated both their bodies. It was foreplay for whatever else the night would bring.
So why wasn’t she dancing that way with Beth?
Beth was the sexiest woman in the room as far as Audie was concerned. Audie knew practically all the regulars at the Gallery, and there wasn’t a single woman here she didn’t like. But none of them interested her like Beth.
The song faded, only to be replaced by another, this one with a slow, sultry beat. Audie took a deep breath and sidled closer, putting both hands on Beth’s waist. “Stay with me?”
Beth was back-to-back with another dancer and had nowhere to go even if she wanted to. “I’ll try.”
Audie looked directly into her eyes as they bobbed two beats to one side, then two to the other. She wanted to erase the image of her with Regan, the one that painted her as a party girl only looking for a good time. “I liked saying you were here with me.”
“I liked hearing it.”
An array of unspoken emotions passed between them. Audie knew their friendship was changing right this instant and that Beth was feeling it too. She pressed her hip into Beth’s and slid behind her, never breaking contact. From there, she dropped her hands to Beth’s hipbones and pulled her close. Had this been someone else, she might have hooked her thumbs inside the skirt’s waistband, but for now she was content simply to feel Beth’s body against hers.
They kept their rhythm, but Audie subtly changed the double beat to each side to one long beat that lingered. Beth relaxed against her at the slower cadence.
“This is nice,” Audie murmured, feeling a rush of tenderness that she had never felt when she danced with a woman like this.
For the first time, her dance-floor caress seemed almost too intimate for a Gallery audience. But she didn’t want to stop. She slid one hand up to Beth’s waist, where she could feel the warm skin of her stomach between the top and the skirt. Her other hand began to roam the curves of Beth’s hip, from her side to her thigh and back.
Beth responded by covering the hand on her waist with both hands and dropping her head to rest against Audie’s shoulder.
Unable to resist the bare skin, Audie planted a soft kiss on the long muscle of her neck. She easily could have gotten carried away after the first touch, but the music abruptly shifted to a rapid technobeat.
She tightened her grip on Beth’s waist, not at all interested in staying out on the floor now that the mood was broken. “Are you ready for that drink now?”
“Let’s go outside.”
Audie’s heart skipped a beat. “Is something wrong?”
Beth took her hand and pulled her toward the door and out, not slowing down until they reached the doorway of an adjacent storefront.
The awning shielded them from the streetlight and the prying eyes of patrons going in and out of the club.
“What’s wrong?” Audie was beginning to think she had just made a huge mistake.
“Nothing. I just didn’t want our first kiss to be in front of the whole world.”
Audie barely had a chance to draw a breath before Beth’s open mouth covered hers. But her response was instantaneous. She took Beth’s head in her hands and held her in place, asserting her own lips and tongue in hungry exploration. It wasn’t just a kiss to her—she was trying to say something, trying to tell her about these feelings she had.
She felt Beth’s cool hands slide underneath her shirt against the bare skin of her back and she answered in kind, stroking the leather-clad backside from waistband to hem. Their kisses intensified and before she realized it, she had slipped her fingers underneath the skirt to caress soft, bare cheeks. Beth’s hips ground against her until she thought her knees might buckle.
“I knew you’d be a good kisser,” Audie panted when their lips finally broke apart.
“We should have done that sooner.”
“Now you tell me. You’ve been driving me crazy all night.” She hugged Beth close and kissed her again. “You think we should go back inside before we get arrested?”
“The way I’m feeling right now, I think we’d get arrested in there too. Maybe we should go back to my place.”
Chapter 16
If anyone had ever told her she would be making out in public with a woman whose hands were all over her naked ass, Beth would have laughed them off the face of the earth.
All the way home, Audie’s hand rested on her thigh, and she had never been so turned on in her life. She was sure Audie could hear her heart pounding as they pulled into her condo complex.
She had no doubt about what they would do upstairs and she was ready for it. It didn’t matter if there were strings attached or not.
All she wanted was to feel Audie all over her tonight.
“I thought we’d never get here.” Audie killed the engine and leaned across the clunky console, pulling her into an embrace.
“Now where were we?”
“I distinctly remember your mouth was on mine,” Beth answered, parting her lips as she fell into Audie’s arms. They kissed again, less hurried than their first one on the sidewalk. Audie’s soft tongue gently rimmed her lips and teeth, teasing her own tongue to reciprocate. As their breaths grew deeper, Audie’s hand wandered to the inside of her thigh, barely inches from the lace thong that shielded her growing arousal. “Maybe we should take this upstairs,” Beth sputtered.
Audie chuckled. “But I cleaned my car just for you.”
“Sorry, but I have a five-minute limit when it comes to making out over a gearshift. We’re pushing that now.”
“Then maybe we should go upstairs and find some more limits to push.”
Even in the dim light, Beth discerned a smug, playful look.
Audie was keeping things light, but Beth didn’t care. She wasn’t going to kid herself that this was about anything but a good time.
She glanced down at the door handle and back. “So do I have to get my own door this time?”
Audie practically flew out her door and around to Beth’s side.
She extended her elbow, which Beth took with her hand, and led the way up the stairs.
“You realize when I open this door that that beast you gave me is going to demand all of my attention. I hope you can handle being second.”
“I could always coax him into a closet and shut the door.”
As predicted, they were greeted by BD, who merely insisted on a scoop of fresh food. Beth served it up in the kitchen as Audie looked on from the doorway.
“He looks happy… and occupied,” Audie said.
“You don’t look very occupied.” But she looked very sexy, Beth thought. She was going to have to find a way to convince Audie to wear her hair down more often.
“I have some ideas for things we could do to stay busy.”
“I hope they involve more kissing.” Beth leaned into her, placing both palms just above her breasts. Audie met her with another kiss, wrapping her arms around Beth’s waist.
“Lots of kissing… in lots of places.”
Beth shuddered hard as she envisioned Audie’s lips traveling across her breasts.
Audie released her grip and leaned back so they were face to face. For the first time all night, her confidence seemed to waver.
“Did I say something wrong?”
Beth felt the beginnings of a blush. “Definitely not.” She pulled Audie’s face back to hers and they kissed again, slow and luxurious, as if kissing was all there was. Beth loved this sweet connection, but she was bursting for more, and she didn’t care if i
t happened right here on the kitchen floor.
As if reading her mind, Audie’s hands returned to her rear and gently worked the miniskirt up so that her fingers were caressing bare skin. “Does this look as beautiful as it feels?”
“You’ll have to answer that one yourself… but we might be more comfortable in the bedroom.”
“I like bedrooms. Bedrooms are good.”
She flipped off the kitchen light and took Audie’s hand to lead her into the bedroom. A trickle of light seeped in through the blinds on the sliding glass door. “Do you want the lamp?”
“I don’t know how else I’m going to compare the look and feel.”
Her hand shaking slightly, Beth clicked the bedside lamp on low and turned once again to face Audie. “Will I get a sticker when you’re finished that says ‘Inspected by Number Twenty-Three’?”
“I’ll give you anything you want,” Audie answered, grasping the hem of the spandex top and slowly pushing it upward.
Beth raised her arms to allow it to be removed. Like everything else she wore, her bra was new, a white satin underwire with lace trim around the tops of her breasts.
Audie brushed the lace with her fingertips. “This is pretty,” she whispered.
Beth felt her breasts rise in anticipation of being touched, but the tickling sensation traveled to her shoulders instead. With a gentle nudge, Audie turned her to face the bed.
“Lie down for me, just like this.”
Beth pulled the covers back and crawled onto the sheet face down, ever conscious that her short skirt and thong left little to the imagination. She shuddered again to feel Audie ease herself onto the bed alongside her, her warm hands gliding across her back and down to her thigh.
“You’ve been torturing me all night with this loincloth, you know… especially when I discovered what was underneath it.”
She fingered the thong. “Please tell me this matches your bra.”
“It does.” Audie’s hand was completely under her skirt now, stroking the curves of her rear. Her hips began to writhe, and she pressed into the mattress with need. She felt Audie shift her position slightly and the zipper on her skirt was lowered. Bit by bit, the leather slid down her legs, leaving her in only her thong and bra.
“You’re beautiful, Beth.” As her hands roamed the naked flesh, her lips trailed from Beth’s spine to her shoulder.
“I want to feel your skin next to mine.”
The air felt cool as Audie pulled away, but Beth heated up inside as she waited to feel Audie’s body next to hers. She began to roll over but a hand stopped her.
“Stay like this for me.”
Beth lay back down, listening to the sounds of clothes being removed. When Audie returned to her, the sleek sensation of the naked body on top nearly took her breath away.
“Is this what you wanted?”
“Exactly.” She reached a hand behind her and stroked Audie’s hip. “But who’s torturing whom now?”
“I want to take my time with you,” Audie murmured, her hair falling across Beth’s back. “But I promise to give you everything you need. Will you let me do that?”
Beth nodded and relaxed as her bra was unhooked and pushed off her arms. She lifted slightly and pulled it aside, dropping it carelessly on the floor beside the bed. Audie massaged her back with a featherlight touch, stroking the sides of her breasts as her fingers wandered. It was exquisite, but Beth was already looking past the backrub, her breath hitching each time Audie’s fingers wandered below the thong.
“Why don’t we take this lovely thing off too?” Inch by inch, the thong was lowered and she heard Audie draw a deep breath through her nostrils. “I’m never giving this back.”
She quivered as Audie’s long hair tickled her calves, her knees and her thighs. When Audie’s lips touched her backside, she instinctively raised her hips. She had no idea that part of her body would be so sensitive, but Audie seemed to know.
“I’m an ass woman, in case you haven’t figured that out,” Audie said, kneading both cheeks as she kissed the pliable skin. “And yours makes me very glad of that.”
“You… I’m so… it…” Beth couldn’t seem to form a complete thought.
“I’m going to touch you now.”
She shook as Audie’s fingers glided through her wet flesh, collecting her essence, which she then used to paint the length of her cleft until it was slick. Beth responded by bending a knee to spread her legs, not caring that she was fully exposed.
“That’s lovely.” She painted one more swipe. “I have to feel you inside.”
Beth moaned as Audie entered her vagina, and every four seconds thereafter, in the same rhythm as curled fingers slid in and out against her wall. The accompanying sensation of Audie’s tongue lapping the moisture from her cleft was more than her body could stand. Her clitoris, which had been screaming for a touch, didn’t seem to exist anymore. An orgasm was roaring forth from somewhere deep inside, and she held her breath to prolong its impact.
“Oh, God.” Finally, she gasped deeply as she pulsed around the fingers that slid in and out. With her eyes closed tightly in concentration, she waited until the tremors waned. “That was… oh, God… I can’t even talk.”
Audie gently pulled out and whispered into Beth’s ear. “You don’t have to talk. Just relax and let it flow through you.” She pulled up the blankets to cover them and snuggled her body close, tucking one arm underneath so that it rested between Beth’s breasts. “We’re just getting started.”
Still face down, Beth could smell herself faintly on Audie’s hand and lips. She focused on the feel of the warm skin on hers, trying to discern where her own body connected with Audie’s breasts, hips, and—
“I want to see your tattoo,” she said, using both hands to push herself up. “I’ve been dying to know what it is.”
Audie chuckled and rolled onto her back as Beth sat up and threw back the covers. The sight nearly stole her breath—not the tattoo, but the smooth-shaven pubis. So much for Ginger’s claim about being able to see pubic hair through Audie’s jeans. “Wow.”
“Do you like it?” Audie stretched the skin to show off a red apple hanging from a tree branch.
“I love it.” Beth forced her eyes onto the tattoo. “It’s an apple.”
“Not just any apple,” Audie said, reaching up to caress one of Beth’s breasts.
“It’s a pippin.”
“That’s right. But we’ll be kicked out of Eden if you take a bite,” she added playfully, leaning forward to close her lips around a nipple.
Beth gasped as her nipple reacted. “I’ll take my chances.” She bent down and wrapped one arm around Audie’s waist, the other underneath her thigh. Her lips landed in the middle of the red circle of the tattoo, which she sucked and nibbled before dropping to her ultimate goal, the shaven folds.
“Let me help you with that.” Audie swung her leg across Beth’s body, forcing her onto her back. Then she scooted forward and lowered her center onto Beth’s waiting mouth.
Beth relished the sensation of the smooth skin against her face, licking all around the slippery lips. She was determined to make it last as long as possible, but each time her tongue crossed the rocklike clitoris, Audie moaned and jerked. She couldn’t resist the urge to hear her cry out again and again.
“I’m going to come, Beth. Don’t stop… don’t stop… oh, yes… coming…”
Beth gripped Audie’s hips, trying to no avail to keep her from pulling away. But Audie seemed desperate to move and collapsed in a heap next to her on the bed.
“I can’t hold myself up when I come that hard,” she gasped.
“You don’t always have to be on top, you know,” Beth answered, rolling over and burying her face in Audie’s sweaty neck. Then she had an alarming thought. “Or do you?”
Audie laughed and squeezed her shoulders, seemingly content to rest for now. “No, I don’t. But I can be selfish about what I want and watching you do that to me was high on my list.
”
“How long is your list?”
“Oh, it’s very long.”
“What happens when we get to the end of the list?”
“That’s the beauty of it. The list never ends, because you never cross anything off. That would be like saying ‘I don’t want to do that again.’ ” She kissed the top of Beth’s head. “And I want to do everything again.”
Beth rested her hand on Audie’s breast and began to tease the nipple, smiling when she felt it grow stiff.
Audie captured her fingers and held them tight. “Are you going to tell Grammaw that you kept your promise and had me in bed by ten thirty?”
“I don’t think I’ll be sharing any details about tonight with your grandmother.”
“Aw, I didn’t know you were shy. Does this mean I can’t hang your thong from my rearview mirror?”
Beth groaned and wriggled her hand free, snaking it down to cup the soft skin around Audie’s sex. “This was a delightful surprise, by the way.”
“Glad you approve. You can’t keep your hands off me, can you?”
Beth propped up on her elbow so she could look into Audie’s eyes. She had never had any patience for games, and that included holding back her feelings, even if it meant saying too much too soon. “No, I can’t. I’ve wanted to be with you like this.” She was relieved to feel Audie’s arm tighten around her shoulder.
“Why didn’t you say something?”
“Because I wasn’t sure until tonight that you even thought of me this way.”
“That’s because I’m not very good at talking about things… and I didn’t think you ever thought of me this way either.”
“I hate to break this to you, Audie, but everybody probably thinks about you this way.”
Audie’s face changed to show a hint of irritation.
“It’s not a bad thing, trust me.” Beth tipped her chin upward so they were looking at each other. “And it’s not all you are, either. But I bet most people don’t get to see the side of you that I do.”
“Which is?”
“Which is a sweet, sensitive young woman who loves her Grammaw very much… and who jumps out of bed at six thirty and gives up her whole day off because a friend of hers is freaking out.” She planted a soft kiss on the tip of Audie’s nose. “And you also happen to be very beautiful and very sexy.”
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