“ you look so lovely like this, all blushy and breathless. ”
DOM / DOMME SENTENCE STARTERS
MUST SHE POINT IT OUT? Bad enough that he's come undone before her, an exposed mess of softness and vulnerability, but must she let him feel the point of her gaze? She must, apparently; it seems she wants to watch him squirm, and squirm he does. Morse is all the more aware of his own breathlessness as he fights to control it now, trying to measure and balance each rise and fall of his chest. It shouldn't be a difficult task, but it is, because he can feel her watching. Not just watching, either, but noticing. His blushing has not escaped her ( and having that pointed out has only made it worse, too, ) so he imagines he's now exposing to her a whole host of tiny details. She can surely see the way he's ever so slightly trembling. The minute unevenness to the ribs beneath his skin, the dip where he'd broken one and it hasn't quite healed correctly. The scars, standing out on skin stretched taut by his reclined position.
MORSE HAS TO LOOK AWAY. He's hot with embarrassment, flushed pink and unbearably visible to her. He lifts his hands and covers his face, twisting to one side to try and avoid her gaze. Silly, he knows, to be embarrassed now. She's already seen him, seen his blushing and his breathlessness and she thinks they're lovely, apparently, but that doesn't stop something inside Morse coiling up in a terrible kind of nervous shame, threaded through with excitement. You look so lovely like this, she said. Well. Morse doesn't agree, but his treacherous body is desperately affected by the praise anyway. He cannot stand to hear it, and yet he longs for more of it. That, too, is surely spread before her in the way he wavers between furious shame and the height of blissfulness; he’s an awful mess of contradictions, and he is nothing if not at her mercy for that.