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Reconnecting

Penelope took Luke's ear into her mouth and let her tongue roam around the flesh as she moaned when he pushed on her lower back and sent himself deeper inside her.

"You feel so good," she whispered into his ear, the words a struggle to get out as pleasure flowed through her body like a river.

She felt him grin against her neck.

They were sat on her bed, Penelope astride Luke as her legs were wrapped around his back and his hands were around her waist… well one was, the other was moving over her body; touching and squeezing whatever he could.

His thrusts were slow and meaningful - this was not fast and furious fucking; this was them reconnecting.

His mouth attached itself to his neck and he sucked her skin into his mouth, marking her. Normally she would have said something, pulled back and asked him not to. But Penelope wanted it. She wanted a mark that said she was his.

Nobody would see it. She would have to cover it up but she would know it was there and so would Luke… and that was all that mattered.

The whole Lisa situation had sent her into a tailspin. She was ashamed of how she acted but she got scared. Luke made her feels things that she had never felt before - not even for Kevin. And that relationship hadn't ended on the best of terms. Penelope understood marriage but it was never something she saw for herself. When she found out Kevin was looking at rings, well it sent a panic through her and she realised that she didn't want to take the next step with him. After their break up she had avoided men. Until Luke. He had broken down her barriers. And it felt good.

"Stop thinking so much," Luke quietly said into her ear. "Come back to me." To emphasise his point, he thrust up into her at an angle and hit that oh-so-sweet spot.

Penelope moaned and wrapped her legs tighter around him as heat blazed across her skin.

Luke placed a steadying hand on her back and used her free hand to wrap around the back of her neck and pull into a feverish kiss.

"This is us," he told her breathlessly. "You and me." Luke pulled away and looked directly into her eyes. Penelope could see nothing but honesty… and love.

It didn't scare her though; not like she thought it would. It pushed her to the precipice an over the edge as she fell into bliss right in Luke's arms, their bodies wrapped around each other.

She cried out and clung to him as Luke buried his face in her chest, his hot breath fanning across her already heated skin.

Penelope rested her head against his and let herself be in the moment.

She had been so scared that she had blown it with Luke and it had taken a lot of courage to tell him the truth. That night at the restaurant, when he said it had only been her, well her heart had almost jumped out her chest with joy.

She just needed to find the courage to tell him the same.