Page 38 of Euphoria
The tension was like a hot sheet between them, that if dropped would leave them both bare and naked with one another. Heat emanating from both—too hot to touch, and yet, the risk of getting burned made it all the more exciting.
As though reading her thoughts, Alex stood up and downed the last of her drink. Placing the crystal glass onto the side table, she held onto it for a second, twisting it back and forth, deciding something, before she let go.
“I should go to bed before I say or do something—”
“It’s not just me, right? You feel it, too,” Morgan said quickly, standing to join her but keeping an appropriate distance between them that felt safe enough, for now at least.
Alex said nothing, and when Morgan stepped towards her, she didn’t retreat.
“Dilated pupils, increased breathing. I don’t need to be a doctor to know when someone is aroused around me. You feel it too, don’t you?”
Alex smiled. “I felt it the first time I met you, but I appreciate that right now, what I’m feeling is—I’m euphoric. I’m feeling things that in the morning will have subsided. When I play, it makes me feel powerful and very sexual, that’s what I’m sure you’re picking up on.”
“Is that all it is?”
Closing the gap between them, Alex smiled when Morgan’s tongue slid out and wet her lip. Slowly, Alex raised a hand. Her finger extended and gently followed, deftly gliding along the soft bottom lip.
Alex stared deeply at her. “No, that’s not all, but I don’t think what I need right now,” she swallowed, “is in your job description.” Alex forced herself to step back. Back and away from this temptation, but she didn’t get far, stopped by Morgan’s fingers gripping her sleeve.
“Tell me what you need?”
Alex glanced down at the fingers resting on her arm, and then she looked up and into the warmest eyes she’d ever known.
“I need to be in control, Morgan. I need to focus on…” She let her words trail off before she glanced away. “…someone else’s needs and let the adrenaline work itself out of my system.”
She waited a moment for that to register with Morgan. And when nothing more was forthcoming, she finally moved away.
“And if I want that?” Morgan said confidently, her words stopping Alex in her tracks. “If I wanted to provide the focus for your need?”
Alex said nothing.
Morgan continued, moving closer as she spoke. “You’re failing to take something very important into account.”
Alex turned back to face her. “What’s that?” Her blue eyes flashed an intensity that struck Morgan deep within.
Morgan waited, and then very slowly, her hands deftly untied the belt on her robe. “That I have a mind of my own.”
Watching her, Alex let her eyes scan slowly downward as the bare skin between Morgan’s breasts was exposed, her stomach, and then lower to the shaven area between her thighs.
“What does your mind think it wants?” Alex asked, her voice an octave lower, husky and sultry. Wanting her more than she’d wanted anyone in a long time.
Morgan stepped towards her.
Alex held her ground, she didn’t want to back off, not now it was being offered. Permission granted. How could she deny it any longer?
“I want you to play me the way you play that piano,” Morgan whispered. “Touch me the way you play.”
“Are you sure about that?” A perfectly arched brow raised as Alex spoke. “You think you can handle that?”
Morgan nodded slowly, pulling her bottom lip between her teeth, as she closed the space between them. “I want to find out.”
Chapter Nineteen
Taking her hand, Alex led the way, guiding Morgan into the bedroom. Her bedroom, not Morgan’s. When they were inside, she closed the door and locked it. Alone, confined, together. Alex leant back against the door and watched as Morgan scanned the room, still half naked, confident in her skin. She liked that.
Taking her time, Alex silently unbuttoned the cuffs on her shirt as she moved closer. Waiting when she was just a step away, she considered what she wanted to do first. So many possibilities, but she didn’t want to do anything too intense, not yet, not until she was sure Morgan could and would want it. When she’d made up her mind, she took the final step and with her lips almost touching Morgan’s ear, she instructed, “Take this off.”
Morgan smirked.