It wasn’t lost on Vienna how quickly things were moving, and she wondered not for the first time if she had pushed too much, or expected too much. Everything about this, about them, had been a surprise to her, a pleasant – and yet still scary – surprise. Her walls had been put in place for a very good reason, so that she would never feel the same kind of loss she had felt three years ago. Walls couldn’t, or maybe shouldn’t stay up forever and this thing with Noah, the feelings she felt, it was worth a little bit of risk, wasn’t it?
Vienna wondered for only a moment what Noah was doing, but that moment only lasted as long as it took for him to get a hold of the hair band in her hair and begin to remove it. She made a small noise of approval as her hair fell loose, though her smile was wicked as she caught his teasing words. “You couldn’t possibly ignore me,” she began. “Not for long anyway.” She pressed up against him as he wrapped an arm around her, almost purring as he rubbed idly at the back of her neck. “Or not if you know what’s good for you,” she trailed a hand lazily down his chest, fingers toying with the waistband of his sweats suggestively, sliding underneath them to hook the elastic, but never going further than that. “And you do know what’s good for you, don’t you boy toy?”
This was another one of those moments when she wished Noah was easier to read, or that maybe she had kept her mouth shut. Vienna didn’t know the history behind either of his exes, just that they existed and it as the reason he had walls built up around himself. Whatever it was that had happened, she had to believe that maybe the third time was the charm? As his whispered words, she was about to ask him what had happened between him and his ex-wife, but the question died on her lips when he kissed her. His mouth on hers muffled the needy noise she made, their conversation forgotten for the moment as the desire or need to be close to him, to have his hands on her body overrode all other thoughts. This wasn’t all that they were, but after weeks of being apart she would be lying if she didn’t admit she needed him, or that she had missed this. “Noah,” she broke the kiss just long enough to breath his name, all her need and desire poured into that one word.