[Ashley] #OUTLANDERReadAlong #Voyager He wrapped his arms around me, and pulled me close. The body’s memory is different from the mind’s. When I thought, and wondered, and worried, I was clumsy and awkward, fumbling my way. Without the interference of conscious thought, my body knew him, and answered him at once in tune, as though his touch had left me moments before, and not years. “I was more afraid this time than on our wedding night,” I murmured, my eyes fixed on the slow, strong pulsebeat in the hollow of his throat. “Were ye, then?” His arm shifted and tightened round me. “Do I frighten ye, Sassenach?” “No.” I put my fingers on the tiny pulse, breathing the deep musk of his effort. “It’s only…the first time…I didn’t think it would be forever. I meant to go, then.” He snorted faintly, the sweat gleaming lightly in the small hollow in the center of his chest. “And ye did go, and came again,” he said. “You’re here; there’s no more that matters, than that.” I raised myself slightly to look at him. His eyes were closed, slanted and catlike, his lashes that striking color I remembered so well because I had seen it so often; deep auburn at the tips, fading to a red so pale as nearly to be blond at the roots. “What did you think, the first time we lay together?” I asked. The dark blue eyes opened slowly, and rested on me. “It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach,” he said simply. Sometime later, we fell asleep entwined, with the sound of the rain falling soft against the shutters, mingling with the muffled sounds of commerce below.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:18:19 +0000
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