Her soft sleepy little noise was painful to him.
It was precious, adorable even, it made his cock ache and his stomach flip, both, together, at same time.
He didn’t want to breath or move or do anything to spoil it because then, there, for a single fleeting moment, it felt perfect.
Like it hadn’t in a long time.
He didn’t know if it had ever been like this.
There was a hum, there, low in his throat as she touched him. As those nails dragged over his skin. As her hand, so small and delicate, threaded into his.
Not even twenty-four hours. They hadn’t even properly fucked. And already he was thinking how content he was.
How fucking terrified he was.
How much he felt almost abashed at his hardness, like his lust was trespassing on something sacred.
It was almost only, though.
“You show me a man,” he growled, voice rough with sleep, lips pressed into her skin. “You show me man who can wake up with you in his arms and not be achin’ and I’ll show you a man who ain’t breathing anymore.”
“Tech-ni-cally,” Butcher enunciated the word as he lifted the hem of his shirt with his free hand, as he ran his hand over her ass, as he shifted how they were positioned, thumbing the line of her panties over. “I said I’d be tucked in this sweet little cleft.”
His boxers were damp as he fished himself out before he dragged the tip of his cock over the small of her back, marking her, making her his, before he nestled in, rolling his hips for good measure.
“Would ya look at that?” He let out a low whistle, looking down between them. “Y’look so good like this.” He pulled her back again, their intwined hands never moving from her chest. “In my arms,” he murmured, pressing a kiss against her neck. “With my cock.”
This was easier. It was easy. It was autopilot.
“How’d you sleep?” He grumbled, nervous suddenly, nervous that it hasn’t been the fix he needed it to be, nervous that he hadn’t been able to calm her the way she had him.
He was okay with just sex. With just fooling around.
But if he was honest he knew from the start he wanted more.