She's perfect. Soft curves and smooth skin and so goddamn beautiful it hurts to look at her.
"Your turn," she says, tugging at my undershirt.
I pull it off and toss it into the back seat, and her eyes go wide.
I know what she's seeing. The scars that cover my chest and arms and ribs. The thick, raised one across my side from the beam. The burns on my shoulder. The surgical scar from where they had to put my collarbone back together.
I'm a mess. A roadmap of everything that's gone wrong. But she's not looking at me with pity or disgust. She's looking at me like I'm a feast and she's starving.
Her hands come up to trace the scar across my ribs, feather-light. "Does it hurt?"
"Not anymore. Just aches sometimes when it rains."
"It's raining now."
"I know."
"Does it hurt?"
"I don't feel anything right now except you."
She leans in and kisses the scar. Then the one on my shoulder. Then the burns on my chest. I'm going to lose my fucking mind.
"Claire—"
"I want to see all of them someday," she murmurs against my skin. "Every single scar. I want you to tell me the story of each one."
"That'll take a while."
"We have time."
We do. We have all the time in the world now.
I reach between us and hook my fingers in the waistband of her panties. "Lift up."
She rises on her knees and I pull them down her thighs. She has to maneuver awkwardly to get them off in the confined space, but finally they're gone, tossed somewhere in the car.
Now she's naked except for the bra. I slide my hand between her legs and she gasps. Still soaking wet. Hot and slick and ready. Claire looks down at it, then back up at me. "I don't know if it's going to fit."
"It'll fit."
"You're really big."
"We'll make it fit." I grip her hip with one hand and guide myself to her entrance with the other. "Slow. We'll go slow."
She nods and starts to lower herself onto me. The head of my cock pushes into her and we both groan.
"Fuck," I grit out. "You're so tight."
"Too tight?"
"Perfect. Don't stop."
She sinks down another inch and I feel her body resisting, clenching around me.
"Relax," I tell her. "Breathe."
She takes a shaky breath and sinks down further.