A/N: this one real nasty. Can’t even imagine Michael actually doing this 😭😭
The afternoon sun bled through the windows of Michael’s Encino estate, casting long, lazy beams across the plush cream carpet of the master bedroom. You were lost, comfortably so, belly-down on the massive bed, chin propped on a pillow as you turned a page of the novel you were trying to finish. The house was quiet, a rare thing. The only sounds were the whisper of the central air and the distant hum of the city beyond the gates.
You heard the bedroom door click open, but didn’t look up. You knew his footfalls, that light, almost dancing step. You felt the dip in the mattress as he climbed onto the bed, felt the heat of his body as he settled beside you, silent. You could smell him—his cologne, something clean and citrusy, and beneath it, the warm, musky scent of him.
“What’cha reading?” His voice was soft, but it had a strange, thrumming quality to it, a vibration that seemed to travel through the mattress into your bones.
You held up the book’s cover without looking. “Some thriller. It’s okay.”
He didn’t respond. The silence stretched, thick and expectant. You turned another page, the sound absurdly loud. Then you felt his hand, not on your back, but on your hip, his fingers curling into the soft cotton of your shorts. His touch was electric, and it made your breath catch.
“I can’t stop thinking,” he murmured, his voice now a low rasp right by your ear. His breath was hot. “All day. In the studio. In the car. It’s… it’s like a fever.”
You finally turned your head to look at him. He was propped on one elbow, his face close. His eyes, usually so bright and playful, were dark, intense, the pupils blown wide. There was a sheen of sweat on his forehead. His famous features were drawn tight, not with anger, but with a desperate, consuming need. You’d seen him hungry for a song, for a performance, but this was different. This was primal.
“Thinking about what?” you asked, though you already knew. Your own pulse began to hammer in your throat.
His answer was a slow, deliberate grind of his hips against the side of your thigh. Through the thin silk of his pajama pants, you felt the hard, insistent length of him. It wasn’t just an erection. It was a presence, thick and urgent, demanding attention. A shiver, half fear and half sheer anticipation, raced down your spine.
“You,” he breathed. “Like this. Just like this.” His hand on your hip tightened, his thumb stroking a small, maddening circle. “I had a dream last night. I woke up… like this.” He pressed himself against you again, a slow, undeniable roll. “And all I could think was… I need to ruin you today.”
The word—ruin—hung in the air. It wasn’t a threat. It was a promise, delivered with such raw, aching want that it liquefied something deep inside you. Your mind went blank, the book forgotten. All you could feel was the heat of him, the tension in his body, the stark need in his eyes.
“I need you to understand,” he whispered, leaning closer, his lips brushing the shell of your ear. “I’m not gonna be gentle. I’m not gonna be… Michael. Not right now. I can’t.”
You swallowed, your mouth dry. “Okay.”
“Okay?” he repeated, his voice dropping even lower, a guttural sound. “You sure?”
You nodded, your cheek rubbing against the pillowcase. “Yes.”
That single word of consent seemed to break a dam within him. A sound, something between a groan and a sigh, escaped his lips. The playful, boyish charm was gone, stripped away, leaving behind something feral and focused.
His hands moved with a sudden, shocking certainty. One slid under your stomach, his palm flat and hot, pinning you gently to the mattress. The other went to the waistband of your shorts and your panties beneath. In one smooth, decisive motion, he yanked them both down to your mid-thighs. The cool air of the room kissed your exposed skin, a sharp contrast to the feverish heat radiating from him.
You gasped, the sensation of sudden exposure making you instinctively clench. You were fully bared to him, vulnerable, presented. He didn’t pause to look, to admire. His need was a locomotive, and it was already at full speed.
You felt him shift behind you, heard the rustle of silk as he freed himself from his pants. You didn’t need to look to know what you’d see—the proud, flushed length of him, slick already at the tip with his need. The mental image alone made you shudder.
Then his body covered yours, not fully, but he leaned over you, his chest pressing into your back. One of his hands remained splayed on your stomach, holding you down. The other…
The other hand found the cleft of your ass. His fingers, slick with something—spit, you realized with a dizzying jolt—pressed against your tight, untouched entrance. There was no preamble, no gentle probing. He was breathing hard, ragged breaths that ghosted over your shoulder.
“Gonna take you here,” he murmured, his voice thick with lust. “Gonna make it mine. You feel how much I need it?”
He pressed the thick head of his cock against you. It was an impossible stretch, a burning pressure that made you cry out, your fingers clawing into the bedsheets. “Michael… it’s… oh, god, wait—”
“Shhh,” he soothed, but it was a command, not comfort. His hips pushed forward, an inexorable, steady invasion. “Just breathe. Take it for me. Take it.”
The burn was intense, a white-hot ring of fire as your body resisted, then yielded, millimeter by agonizing, exquisite millimeter. You buried your face in the pillow, a muffled scream caught in your throat. It wasn’t pain, not exactly. It was a brutal, overwhelming fullness, a claiming so profound it felt like he was reaching into your very core.
He seated himself fully with a final, deep thrust that knocked the air from your lungs. He was buried to the hilt, his body flush against yours, his groin pressing into your ass. He went utterly still for a moment, both of you trembling with the shock of the connection. You could feel every pulsing vein of him inside you, feel the way your own body clenched and fluttered around the foreign, wonderful intrusion.
He froze for a moment, buried to the hilt, his body trembling with the shock of the connection. You could feel every pulsing vein of him inside you, feel the way your own body clenched and fluttered around the foreign, wonderful intrusion. His breath hitched, ragged and uneven, as he pressed his forehead into the curve of your shoulder.
“Oh…” he moaned, the sound torn from deep in his chest, a raw, guttural expression of pleasure that sent shivers down your spine. “Damn… you’re so tight. So perfect. Clenching on me already.” His voice was low, almost reverent, as if he couldn’t believe the way your body was responding to him. His fingers dug into your hips, holding you firmly in place as he leaned forward, his chest pressing against your back.
“You feel that?” he whispered, his lips brushing against your ear, his breath hot and uneven. “You feel how much I need this? How much I need you?” He shifted slightly, just enough to make you gasp as the movement sent a jolt of pleasure through you. “You’re taking me so well, baby. So deep. So fucking tight. I can’t—I can’t get enough of you.”
His words were like a spark, igniting something primal and desperate within you. You could feel the way your body was responding to him, the way it was tightening around him, pulling him deeper, as if it couldn’t get enough either. His groan was deep, almost pained, as he rocked his hips gently, savoring the sensation.
“God, you’re perfect,” he muttered, his voice trembling with desire. “So fucking perfect. I could stay like this forever. Just… fucking buried inside you. Feeling you clench around me. Feeling you take every inch of me.” His hands slid up your sides, fingers tracing the curve of your spine as he pressed another kiss to your shoulder. “You’re mine. Right now, in this moment, you’re mine. And I’m never letting you go.”
His words were a promise, a vow, and you could feel the truth of them in the way he held you, in the way his body trembled against yours. You were his, completely and utterly, and in that moment, you wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
It wasn’t a rhythm. It was a taking. He pulled back almost all the way, the drag a delicious, shocking friction, then slammed back in, hard and deep. You saw stars. A ragged cry was ripped from you.
“Yes!” he hissed. “Like that. Give me that sound.”
He set a brutal, punishing pace from the very first stroke. No gentle build-up, no searching for angle. This was pure, unadulterated need. His hips pistoned against you, each thrust a deliberate, deep conquest. The slap of skin on skin filled the quiet room, a lewd, rhythmic percussion to his ragged breaths and your helpless cries.
The initial burning stretch melted away, replaced by a deep, radiating heat that spread through your pelvis and up your spine. The feeling was unbelievable. It was too much—the depth, the friction, the sheer wrongness of it that made it feel so incredibly right. Every nerve ending felt alive, screaming with sensation.
His hand on your stomach slipped lower, his fingers sliding through your slick folds from behind. You were drenched, your own arousal a shocking counterpoint to the anal violation. He found your clit, already swollen and throbbing, and pressed the pad of his thumb against it in rough, circular strokes.
The dual assault shattered you. A scream, loud and unbidden, tore from your throat. Your body arched off the bed, back bowing, as a violent, unexpected orgasm ripped through you. It was an avalanche, starting deep where he was buried and radiating outward in crashing waves of pleasure. Your internal muscles clamped down on him in rhythmic, involuntary spasms.
“Fuck!” Michael roared, his thrusts becoming erratic, brutal. “You’re coming? On this? You dirty… oh, god…”
His voice was raw, stripped of its usual smooth melody, replaced by a guttural growl that sent shivers down your spine. His hips pistoned against you with unrelenting force, driving deeper, harder, as if he were trying to fuse himself to you. You could feel every inch of him, every pulsing vein, every throbbing ridge, and it was overwhelming in the most delicious way. His hand on your stomach tightened, fingers digging into your flesh as he leaned over you, his breath hot and ragged against your back.
“You’re such a fucking mess,” he hissed, his voice trembling with a mix of awe and lust. “Taking me like this—letting me ruin you—and still coming like a little slut. Oh, baby, you’re perfect.” The words were rough, almost angry, but they lit a fire in you, made you clench around him even tighter. He groaned, a deep, shuddering sound that seemed to come from the very depths of his chest. “Fuck, I can feel you—your body’s just milking me. You’re made for this, aren’t you? Made for me.”
His thrusts became even more erratic, losing their rhythm as he lost himself to the intensity of the moment. You could feel him trembling above you, his muscles taut with the effort to hold himself together. “I can’t—I can’t stop,” he panted, his voice breaking. “You’re dragging it out of me, baby. I’m not gonna last—I’m not gonna be able to hold back.” His hand slid down to your hip, gripping tightly as he adjusted his stance slightly to get deeper inside you. “God, I wanted to make it last, but you’re too good—too fucking perfect. You’re ruining me.”
The combination of his words and the relentless rhythm of his thrusts pushed you closer and closer to the edge. You could feel the pleasure building, growing, spreading through your body like wildfire. His thumb found your clit again, pressing hard against the sensitive nub in fast, rough circles. “That’s it, baby,” he growled, his voice low and urgent. “Let go—come for me. Come on my cock while I’m buried deep inside you. Let me feel it—let me feel how much you love it.”
And you did. The pleasure crashed over you like a tidal wave, sweeping you away in a flood of sensation. Your body clenched around him, muscles spasming uncontrollably as you screamed, the sound loud and raw and unrestrained. He groaned, a deep, guttural sound of pure satisfaction, as he felt you come apart around him. “Fuck, yes—that’s it, baby. That’s it. Take it—take all of me,” he growled, his thrusts becoming even more erratic as he chased his own release. “You’re so fucking perfect—I can’t—I’m gonna—”
His voice broke off in a ragged cry as he buried himself deep inside you one last time, his body shuddering uncontrollably as he came, pulsing hot and thick within you. You could feel every pulse, every spurt, and it sent another wave of pleasure through you, prolonging your own climax as you both rode the waves together. For a moment, the world ceased to exist—there was nothing but the two of you, lost in the intensity of the moment, completely and utterly consumed by each other.
Your climax seemed to unleash something even more animalistic in him. The careful control vanished. He reared up, pulling you back with him so you were on your knees, your back pressed to his sweaty chest. One arm banded around your ribs, holding you impossibly close. The other hand tangled in your hair, pulling your head back so your neck was exposed to his biting kisses.
The change in angle was devastating. He was hitting a spot so deep, so profound, it felt like he was rearranging your insides. Each thrust now jolted through your entire body, making you see flashes of light behind your eyelids.
“Mine,” he grunted into your ear, his voice guttural, almost unrecognizable. “This is mine. Say it.”
You were sobbing with pleasure, mindless, feral. “Yours!” you choked out. “Oh, God, Michael, it’s yours!”
“Yours!” you screamed, as he pounded into you, the bedframe now slamming against the wall with the force of his thrusts.
He was everywhere—his scent, his sweat, his voice, his cock claiming a part of you that had never been claimed. The pleasure was a taut wire winding tighter and tighter inside you, a coil of pure sensation threatening to snap. You were babbling, begging, though you didn’t know for what—for more, for him to stop, for it to never end.
His arm around you tightened, his fingers digging into your flesh. His breathing hitched, turned into sharp, desperate gasps. “I’m gonna… I’m gonna fill you up,” he growled, his hips stuttering. “Gonna mark you inside. You want that? You want me to ruin you?”
“Yes! Please!” you begged, completely lost to the madness.
With a final, shuddering roar that was part scream, part sob, he slammed into you and held there, buried to the root. You felt him pulse, once, twice, a deep, internal throb that seemed to go on forever as he spilled his release deep inside your clutching heat. The feeling of it, the hot, intimate flood, triggered a second, even more violent orgasm for you. Your body seized, convulsing around him, milking him dry as you screamed yourself hoarse, a wordless cry of absolute surrender.
For a long moment, there was only the sound of your combined, ragged breathing and the frantic beating of your hearts. He collapsed forward, taking you down with him, both of you a tangled, sweaty, spent heap on the rumpled sheets. He was still inside you, still connected, both of you trembling with aftershocks.
Slowly, carefully, he pulled out. The sensation was a slow, slick emptiness that made you whimper. He rolled onto his back beside you, one arm flung over his eyes, his chest heaving.
You lay on your stomach again, feeling utterly wrecked, used, and more satisfied than you’d ever been in your life. Your entire body hummed. You could feel the evidence of his possession leaking from you, a warm, sticky reminder. The room smelled of sex and sweat and him.
After a minute, his hand found yours on the sheets, his fingers lacing through yours. His grip was strong, possessive. He turned his head on the pillow to look at you. The feral intensity was gone from his eyes, replaced by a sated, dazed warmth, and something else—a look of awed, almost reverent satisfaction.
He brought your knuckles to his lips and kissed them softly. “You okay?” he asked, his voice back to its normal, softer register, though still rough around the edges.
You could only manage a weak nod, a small smile touching your lips.
He grinned then, that famous, boyish grin, though it was tempered by the carnality of the last half hour. “Good,” he said, his thumb stroking the back of your hand. “Because I’m not done with you yet.”
The silence in the room is a living thing, thick with the scent of spent passion and sweat. You lie there, feeling the slick, warm evidence of Michael’s claim slowly seeping from you, a physical echo of the feral intensity that just consumed you both. His fingers are still laced with yours, his grip loose now but no less possessive. You can hear his breathing, deep and even, beginning to slow.
Then, his thumb moves. A single, deliberate stroke across your knuckle.
“Up,” he murmurs, his voice a low, gravelly vibration that seems to travel from his chest, through the mattress, and into your bones.
You turn your head on the pillow, meeting his eyes. The sated warmth is still there, but beneath it, you see the embers. Glowing. Ready to be stoked back into a blaze. He’s not done. He promised he wasn’t done.
“Michael…” you start, your own voice a rough whisper.
He doesn’t let you finish. In one fluid motion, he swings his legs off the bed and stands. The afternoon light catches the sheen of sweat on his lithe, dancer’s physique, highlighting the smooth planes of his back, the tight curve of his ass. He is a study in coiled grace, even now. He turns, looking down at you where you’re still sprawled, wrecked and deliciously used. His expression is unreadable for a moment—a blend of awe, hunger, and that deep, driving need you’ve come to recognize.
He reaches down, his hand not asking, but taking. His fingers wrap around your wrist. “Come on,” he says, and it’s not a request. It’s a directive. “We’re filthy.”
You let him pull you up. Your legs are shaky, the muscles in your thighs trembling with the memory of the violent climaxes he wrung from you. You stand naked before him, feeling exposed, seen in a way that goes beyond the physical. He looks you over, his dark eyes traveling from your face, down your throat, over your breasts, lingering at the junction of your thighs, and finally back up. It’s a look that catalogues his property, appreciates the marks—both visible and invisible—that he’s left.
“Good,” he says, almost to himself. Then he tugs your wrist, leading you towards the en-suite bathroom.
The master bathroom is a cavern of marble and chrome, opulent and cool. He doesn’t turn on the overhead lights. Instead, he flicks a switch that ignites a series of soft, recessed bulbs around the enormous, sunken Jacuzzi tub. But he bypasses the tub entirely, leading you straight to the large, glass-walled shower.
He releases your wrist to turn the knobs. A hiss, then a roar as water erupts from the wide, rainfall showerhead above and several body jets on the walls. Steam begins to billow, fogging the glass. The room fills with the sound, a white noise that feels both isolating and intimate.
He steps into the spray, pulling you in after him.
The hot water is a shock, a cascade of sensation that makes you gasp. It sluices over your head, your shoulders, washing away the initial layer of sweat and stickiness. It runs in rivulets between your breasts, down your stomach, over the tender, well-used flesh between your legs. You tilt your head back, letting it pound on your closed eyelids.
Michael stands facing you, the water plastering his dark curls to his forehead, running in streams down the elegant lines of his face, over his full lips. His eyes are open, watching you through the downpour. The predatory smile is back, a subtle curve of his mouth as he sees you revel in the heat.
He steps closer. The water is now hitting both of you, a pounding, rhythmic massage. His hands come up to your shoulders, his touch firm, anchoring. He leans in, his mouth finding yours under the spray.
The kiss is not soft. It’s a reclamation. His lips are demanding, his tongue pushing past yours with a focused intensity that steals the breath the water hadn’t already taken. You can taste yourself on him, a musky, intimate flavor that sends a fresh, dizzying jolt of arousal straight to your core. Your hands come up to his slick chest, your fingers sliding over the smooth, hot skin, feeling the rapid beat of his heart beneath.
He breaks the kiss, his forehead resting against yours. Water runs from the tips of his nose and eyelashes onto your face. “Turn around,” he says, his voice barely audible over the shower’s roar.
A shiver that has nothing to do with the water races through you. You know what he wants. The memory of the bed—the burning stretch, the overwhelming fullness, the brutal, perfect rhythm—floods back, and your body clenches in empty, aching anticipation.
Turning, you present your back to him. The hot water now hits your shoulder blades, streaming down your spine. You brace your hands on the cool, wet tile of the shower wall, your fingers splayed. You hear him move behind you, the subtle shift of his weight on the wet floor.
His hands land on your hips, his grip sure and strong. His thumbs dig into the dimples at the base of your spine, massaging in small, rough circles. He leans in, and you feel him, hard and insistent once more, pressing against the cleft of your ass. The promise is explicit, undeniable.
“You’re still so open for me,” he murmurs, his lips against the wet skin of your shoulder. One of his hands leaves your hip, sliding down over the curve of your ass. His fingers trace the sensitive, swollen rim he’d claimed so thoroughly just minutes before. You flinch at the touch, a bolt of pure, electric sensation shooting through you. “Still soft. Still mine.”
His fingers probe, not invading, but testing. The sensation is incredibly intimate, a focused attention that makes you push back against his hand instinctively. A low chuckle vibrates against your back. “Eager,” he notes, his voice thick with approval. “My greedy girl.”
The hand on your hip tightens, holding you steady. You feel him shift, the blunt, slick head of his cock nudging against you. There’s no spit this time, no crude lubrication. Just the hot water streaming over both of you, and the natural, aching readiness of your body.
“This time,” he says, his breath hot in your ear, “I want to feel every drop of water. I want to feel it pushing me into you.”
The entry is different this time. There’s no sharp, burning resistance. Your body, still humming and loose from his previous possession, yields to him with a shocking, wet ease. The hot water seems to ease the way, creating a slick, heated channel as he sinks into you. It’s a slow, deliberate invasion, an inch-by-inch reclamation that steals the air from your lungs in a long, shuddering sigh.
The fullness is immediate, profound. He’s thick, and the stretch is there—a delicious, burning ache that speaks of use and ownership—but it’s welcomed, needed. You drop your head forward, a moan torn from your throat, lost in the sound of the shower. Your fingers curl against the tile, seeking purchase.
He seats himself fully with a deep, rolling thrust of his hips that presses your stomach against the cool wall. He’s buried to the hilt, his body flush against yours, his groin tight against your ass. He goes still, both of you panting, trembling in the steam. The water cascades over your joined bodies, running in streams down the valley of your spine, over the tight clutch of your connection.
“Fuck,” he breathes, the word a reverent prayer against your skin. “It’s even better. Hotter. Tighter.” He rolls his hips, a minute, grinding motion that makes you cry out. “You’re clamping down on me like a fist. Like you don’t want to let me go.”
It’s not the frantic, punishing pace from the bed. Not yet. This is something else—a slow, deep, measured claiming. He pulls back almost all the way, the drag exquisite and maddening, the water creating a unique, slippery friction. Then he pushes back in, a long, smooth stroke that fills you up completely. Each thrust is a deliberate act of possession, a reaffirmation of what he took before.
The sensations are multiplied, distorted by the water. The heat from the spray blends with the internal heat he’s stoking. The slap of wet skin is muffled, but the deep, internal impact of him is magnified. With every slow, penetrating drive, water is forced around him, into you, a bizarre and incredibly erotic sensation that makes you feel even more open, more invaded, more his.
“You feel that?” he grunts, his pace beginning to incrementally quicken. His hands are on your hips, fingers digging in, using you for leverage. “The water… it’s everywhere. It’s like I’m fucking you with the whole shower.”
You can only moan in response, your mind fracturing under the dual assault of sensation. The rhythmic pounding of the water on your back and shoulders syncs with the rhythm of his thrusts, until you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins. You are a vessel for him, for the water, for the pleasure.
His control starts to slip. The slow, deep strokes become harder, faster. The slap-slap-slap of his hips against your ass becomes audible even over the shower’s roar. He leans over you, his chest pressing against your slick back, his mouth finding the side of your neck. He doesn’t kiss—he bites, a sharp, possessive claim that makes you jolt and clench around him violently.
“Yes!” he hisses against your skin. “Squeeze me like that. Ruin me back.”
His hand slides around your hip, his fingers delving through your soaked curls, finding your clit. It’s throbbing, swollen, hyper-sensitive. He doesn’t stroke it. He presses the heel of his hand against it, grinding it with the force of his thrusts, creating a relentless, indirect pressure that has you seeing stars.
The coil inside you, which never fully unwound, is winding again, tighter and tighter with every deep plunge of his cock. Your cries are continuous now, a broken stream of sound lost in the steam. You’re pushing back against him, meeting his thrusts, desperate for more, for the friction, for the delicious, brutal fullness.
“Who does this belong to?” he demands, his voice guttural, ragged. He punctuates each word with a hard, driving thrust. “This. Tight. Little. Hole.”
“You!” you sob, the word ripped from you. “You, Michael, only you!”
“Damn right,” he growls. His arm bands around your waist, locking you against him. He changes the angle slightly, pulling you up so your back arches. The new position makes him go even deeper, hitting a spot that makes your knees buckle. He holds you up, his strength undeniable.
The pace becomes frantic, feral. He’s fucking you now in earnest, no pretense of measured control. It’s a raw, desperate sprint towards mutual destruction. The shower wall is slick under your palms, your body sliding against it with every powerful drive of his hips. Steam clouds the glass, enclosing you in a wet, heated world of nothing but sensation and him.
His fingers on your clit become more specific, circling the swollen nub with frantic, rough precision. The dual stimulation—the deep, pounding invasion and the frantic circles on your clit—pushes you to the edge with terrifying speed.
“I’m gonna come,” you scream, the sound strangled. “Michael, I’m gonna—”
“Do it,” he snarls, his own voice breaking. “Come all over my cock. Let the water wash it away and I’ll just make you come again. Do it!”
The command, the sheer possessive arrogance of it, is the final trigger. Your orgasm detonates, a silent, screaming explosion behind your eyes that seems to pull every nerve in your body taut before shattering it. Your body convulses, clamping down on his cock in a series of violent, rhythmic pulses that milk him, pull at him. A raw, guttural scream is torn from your throat, echoing off the tile.
Feeling you come apart around him shatters the last of his restraint. With a roar that sounds like it’s been ripped from his soul, he slams into you one final, devastating time and holds there, buried to the root. You feel him pulse, a deep, throbbing release that seems to go on forever, hot even against the scalding water. His release floods you, a claiming that feels even more profound here, under the cleansing spray, as if he’s marking you as his in a way no soap can ever wash away.
His body jerks against yours with each spurt, his arms trembling where they hold you. He collapses forward, his weight pressing you into the wall, his forehead resting between your shoulder blades. You both stand there, supported by the wall and each other, shuddering through the aftershocks as the hot water continues to cascade over you, washing away the physical evidence but sealing the claim deep in your bones.
For a long time, there is only the sound of the water and your ragged, synced breathing. Slowly, the world begins to filter back in. The feel of the tile under your cheek. The steam. The gradual softening of him inside you.
He finally moves, pulling out with a slow, slick sound that makes you whimper at the sudden, aching emptiness. He turns you gently in his arms, your back now against the wall. He looks down at you, his eyes soft, dazed, sated. The feral hunger is banked, for now. He cups your face in his hands, his thumbs stroking your cheeks, wiping away water and… you realize, tears.
He doesn’t speak. He just looks at you, his expression one of awed, exhausted satisfaction. Then he leans in and kisses you, softly this time. A kiss of gratitude, of connection, of profound, unsettling peace.
He reaches behind you and turns off the water.
The sudden silence is deafening. Dripping. Your own heartbeat loud in your ears. The steam slowly begins to clear.
He grabs a large, plush towel from a heated rack and wraps it around you, rubbing your arms briskly before securing another around his own waist. He leads you, quiet and pliant, out of the shower and back into the bedroom. The afternoon light has shifted, casting longer, golden shadows across the rumpled bed.
He guides you to the edge of the mattress and sits you down. He kneels on the floor in front of you, the towel gaping at his waist. He takes your feet, one at a time, and dries them with a tenderness that contrasts violently with the animalistic passion of moments before. He works his way up your calves, your thighs, patting the towel gently over your skin. His touch is methodical, reverent.
When his hands, still holding the towel, reach the apex of your thighs, he pauses. He looks up at you, his dark eyes gleaming in the low light.