Lou blushed. “I was just thinking about work. About being with you there, you know, now that we’ve done this. How am I supposed to keep my hands off you in the office?”

Stephanie grinned. “Oh dear, I hadn’t thought of that. Hm.” She ran a hand down the length of Lou’s warm torso. “Maybe we’ll have to find secret places we could meet. I think the back stairway is hardly ever used.” An image of them flashed into her mind—wrapped up in each other on the stairway, pushed against a wall, knowing someone could interrupt them at any minute but unable to stop, fingers seeking wet heat… She swallowed against the arousal that steamrolled across her body.

Lou shuddered, and goose bumps broke out on her skin underneath Stephanie’s touch.

“You like?” Stephanie’s voice took on a seductive huskiness she didn’t know she possessed.

“Mm, very much.”

Lou placed a hand on Stephanie’s ass and began rubbing slow circles across it. She teased Stephanie, her fingers occasionally dipping down to where her thighs met.

“You’re like magic,” murmured Lou after a few moments. “I don’t know how you did it, but somehow something about you made me forget all my other crap, made me almost forget how shy I was.” She chuckled. “Well, until you knocked me back, of course…”

Stephanie poked her in the ribs. “Something tells me I am going to have to make that up to you for a while, huh?”

Lou smiled slyly. “Maybe…”

Stephanie grinned, raised herself up on her elbows, and leaned in for a kiss that started softly but quickly became anything but.

“I think I’ll start now, then,” she murmured and let her tongue drift down Lou’s neck, across her collarbone, and onto her breasts.

“Oh…good start…”

* * *

Stephanie woke at daybreak, desperate for a pee. Lou was fast asleep beside her, and she eased herself gently out from the bed and carefully left the room to go in search of a bathroom. Once she’d taken care of that, she stretched a few times in front of the bathroom mirror, grinning inanely at her own reflection. Oh, my God, what a night. She chuckled—she’d had no idea it was possible to feel that good, that extraordinary, with another human being. Why, oh why, had she waited so long to find this? Well, no point torturing herself about that now—she just needed to be thankful she had found it and with someone as wonderful as Lou.

She left the bathroom and headed for the kitchen. She smiled to herself. She wanted to make breakfast in bed for Lou, surprise her, look after her. She had such feelings of…tenderness towards her. It made her feel all quivery inside. She never knew she could be such a romantic fool.