I sit back on my heels. Reach for the nightstand. I pull a condom from the strip. Tear it open. She watches me roll it on with her bottom lip caught between her teeth, and I almost lose the thread right there.
I lower back over her.
I notch myself at her entrance. She's so wet I slide just the tip in without trying.
I pause.
"Brown Eyes."
"Yeah."
"You're staying."
A smile breaks across her whole face. Wide. Real.
"I'm staying."
"Christ, Anna, I love you."
It comes out of me before I know I'm saying it. Her eyes go wide. A tear slips out the corner.
"Luke."
"I'm not asking for it back. I just needed you to know."
"You're a goddamn idiot, if you think I don’t."
"Excuse me."
"I love you too Luke. I have loved you since you held me in that lean-to and didn't tell me we shouldn't."
I drop my forehead to hers. Hold there. Breathe.
"Brown Eyes."
"Yeah."
"I'm gonna make love to my woman now."
"Your woman."
I nod as I sink into her tight pussy I’m gonna enjoy for the rest of my life if she lets me. "Mine." I settle in all the way pausing after one long, slow, deep slide. Until I'm seated and her mouth has fallen open and her eyes are full of me.
"Oh my God, Luke."
I start to move. Still slow. Long pulls. Her ankles cross at the small of my back and her hands go to my shoulders and we find a rhythm we don't have to think about. Her body opens for me like she's been doing this with me for years. Like she's been mine forever and we just hadn't met yet.
"Tell me again."
"That you're mine?"
"Yes."
"You're mine, Anna Kim."
"Yours."
"And I'm yours."