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Aubrey Summers (demipointe) wrote in reduxpitch,

Ashleigh honestly didn't know why she'd felt the need to undermine the kiss with her comment. She didn't object to Axel's hand on her, and in truth wouldn't have minded even if they had been dancing and in public. It wasn't as if they were competition-standard or what he was doing was truly inappropriate. She was aware, too, that Axel had been far more forthcoming about his feelings than she had. She'd taken the initial risk, and that probably counted for something, but all she'd actually said was that she wanted more than sex - nothing about how she liked him, or why. If called on, she didn't know what she would have said. Words were hard, and kissing him was much easier.

Serious or not, an hour ago she would have assumed there was a grain of truth in his words. Now, she knew he was in this for something else - for her, feelings and hand-holding and all, as Aisling had once theorised. "There's a time and a place," she said, doing her best to look stern. As far as Ashleigh was concerned, that place was a bedroom with a warded door. Axel, she was fairly certain, had very different ideas. She frowned slightly, still very aware of the way her hands spanned his sides. There hadn't been a moment since she first touched his arm that she hadn't been aware of his skin under her fingertips. So perhaps she could bend her strict bedroom-only policy at least this far. As if testing the theory she slid one hand around to his back, settling comparatively higher than where he was touching her.

She did still believe that they shouldn't just jump into bed. There were things she still wanted to spell out quite clearly before they did that. Perhaps the most important of which was, "So no more Amber?" She'd remembered the girl's real name, which just proved that she really did pay entirely too much attention to Axel's journals. Of course, what she really meant was not Amber specifically but other women in general.