Mia sank, kneeling in between Lou’s legs, as though about to worship at an altar. Just her presence there was enough to ratchet up Lou’s desire by a few levels. While part of her longed to lie on the bed with Mia, naked, stroking each other’s soft warm skin, discovering each other in a more conventional way for a first time, the truest part of her preferred this. The rest would follow later. As far as stating intentions went, Mia kneeling in between her legs was far superior to gently tugging off each other’s clothes and exploring what lay beneath.

Mia ran a finger along Lou’s inner thigh. Up and down, then it moved to the other, trailing circles and complicated figures on her skin, making every last hair on Lou’s body stand on end with anticipation. At last, Mia’s finger stroked along her panties again, but still too far away from where Lou really wanted it. Not for long though. It skated down, avoiding her clit, to run along her throbbing lips. Lou couldn’t see between her legs because Mia’s dark hair obstructed her view. She couldn’t stop herself from bringing one hand to Mia’s head and running it through her hair. Lou hoped it would spur her on to rip Lou’s panties off her, so she could bare her most intimate self to Mia, and get the growing arousal humming in her blood taken care of. This was beginning to feel more like torture than foreplay. But Lou was only getting what she had asked for.

Mia’s finger lightly circled her clit—still over her panties. Oh yes, definitely torture.

Lou strangled a moan in her throat. She might have asked for this but she wasn’t going to beg for more. She trusted Mia to take her where she needed to go, to follow a pace that was bearable, to bring Lou to the cliffside of desire and then catch her on the other side.

If Mia kept circling like that, Lou’s arousal threatened to catch up with her, spill over the edges she was skirting now, and tip her over prematurely. But Mia was smarter than that. Her finger retreated, then hooked itself underneath the hem and pulled away the wet panel of her panties.