“So, uh, Hannah…what is…this.” I motioned around myself to convey ‘everything’ “I just want to make sure we are…thinking the same thing, I guess.”

“And what exactly is it that you’re thinking, Zoe?” Hannah took a sip of her water and looked at me seductively, wiping a stray drop from her lip with her thumb in a move that never failed to make me at least a little wet when a character in a book did it.

“I think we…I think that we are going to have sex, or make out, or…something.”

“What would you like that something to be?” The intensity in her voice grew ever so slightly. Sure, this woman knew how to write a seduction scene, but she seemed to also be able to act it as well.

“I would like to have sex. If you would like to.”

Hannah smirked and let her lips part, showing a glint of her pearly teeth. “Would you now?”

“Yes.”

“And you think I’d want to do that too?”

“I…hope? I mean, you’re laying it on pretty thick right now…”

Hannah laughed, leaning back on the couch, and her demeanor relaxed again. She ran her fingers through her hair and let out a deep breath. I had no idea how to take the fact that she wasn’t going full dominant seductress on me, and it made me worried that I had missed a signal and fucked up. “You’re so goddamn cute, Zoe. I can tell why you like my books, you’re just as nervous as one of my narrators when the sultry love interest starts turning up the heat. You’re playing the role exactly.”

“Is that a good thing?” I said, nervous.

“It is…” Hannah moved closer to me on the couch, her thigh pressing against mine, and she laid her hand on my knee. “It’s not often that I get to play these scenes out in real life. I spend all my time scribbling this stuff down, and, well, sometimes it makes me so hot, and yearn so much to not just write it, but to…feel it.” At that last part, Hannah dug her fingers into my knee, causing me to jump a little.

Her eyes locked on mine, and she let the tip of her tongue just barely show past her lips as she stared into me, the heat coming off her body and her intense gaze making my panties absolutely wet with need.

I swallowed hard. “I’m sorry I just want to get it out in the open, I’m not ready for the BDSM stuff yet. I love to read it, but…I’m too scared to try it.”

Hannah took her free hand and stroked my hair, her fingertips grazing the top of my ear. The skin-on-skin sensation of such an already sensitive part made me moan a little.