I could feel the way that goosebumps were breaking out across the expanse of her skin. I was willing to admit that it pleased me to know that I affected her in this way. It meant that I was doing something right. It gave me reason to believe that she wanted this a lot more than she was admitting—but it would also explain why she wasn’t making much of an effort to stop me.
“Do you want me to stop, Hera?”
I made sure that I spoke right by her ear, making sure that she had no reason to claim that she hadn’t heard me. As if to lay an even better foundation to the thoughts that I was having, she shivered again, her goosebumps intensifying by a tenfold.
Her skin was soft, her touch warm—and I didn’t think that Jy had anything to do with the steam that was floating around in the air. It was
