Mack laughed and then positioned her own sex against Flora’s. The sensation of having the strong, confident Mack Sharkey between her legs, making her come, was enough to let her know she was going to come again.

Mack started to thrust against her. “Fuck, you feel so good.”

Flora enjoyed watching Mack let go. She knew Mack swore like a trooper around her friends but always tried to keep her language polite in front of her. It was so amazing to find this wanting, needing, primal part of Mack, and all because she wanted her, Flora Buchanan. She wrapped her legs around Mack’s hips, pulling them closer together.

That brought Mack close to the peak of her orgasm. Her thrusting got faster, as well as her moans.

“Come, baby,” Flora said. “Come with me.”

The thrusts against her clit were bringing her close to losing control too. When she heard Mack shout out her orgasm and felt her body go rigid, she followed her into that place of pure pleasure that now only Mack could take her.

Mack collapsed on top of her, and even in the midst of her own recovery, she took a moment to gasp, “Hold on to me, darlin’. You’re safe with me.”

After a minute her slightly confused brain became aware of Mack kissing her. “You are so beautiful.” Mack then looked into her eyes and said, “I’m falling in love with you, Flo.”

“Me too.”

Mack stroked her cheek. “I think I have been since that night we met.”

“It was fate,” Flora said, and then she lifted Mack’s wrist and kissed the shark tooth tattoo on her forearm. Their afterglow was interrupted by a small dog at the side of the bed yapping.

“Dexter loves us too,” they said together.

Chapter Fifteen

The next few weeks brought great change into Flora’s life. Her new medication was starting to have an effect. It didn’t take her OCD symptoms away, but it was making her slightly calmer. It softened the urge, so that just sometimes she would forget to practice her usual rituals.

She and Dr. Carrson were finding the right balance of medication, talking out her issues, and coming up with strategies to cope with social situations that she struggled with. So much so that Flora had agreed to pop in and meet the rest of Mack’s family for a drink when they were finished decorating Sweet Surprise for Christmas.

But the biggest change was her blossoming relationship with Mack. Flora couldn’t quite believe her luck to have found Mack, or Mack to have found her. She had tried her hardest to push her away in the beginning, but Mack had persevered, and here they were, decorating the shop with Isla, Jay, and Annie.

Mack and Jay were currently up on ladders, trying to hang a large and heavy Christmas garland, bedecked with pine cones and lights, above the shop sign.