"How are you still wearing so much clothing?"
Valentin smirks. "Well, you didn't really give me a chance to take any of them off."
Anna remedies that, slowly removing his shirt, pants, and underwear so that he is nude alongside her.
Valentin takes control, shifting their bodies so that she is lying on her side in front of him, and he is spooning her.
As his hands roam over her breasts and she presses herself back against his pelvis. He bucks his hips against her, and their desire for each other grows. Anna can feel his length as he hardens against against her backside. He traces her nipple and tugs it between his fingers. He splays his entire hand across her breast to fondle it, then moves to massage the other.
Anna looks behind her at him and he catches her lips with his, easing his tongue into her mouth in an erotic dance with hers.
It isn't hasty since they've both already climaxed. They can take their time, and Valentin enjoys taking his time with Anna. He moves her hair away from her neck and places hot kisses along the back of her neck and shoulder. His lips find the hollow spot between her neck and shoulder, and he bites down in gentle nibbles.
They have never tried this position before, but Valentin can tell they're going to enjoy it. When he's fully hard, he pulls her top leg up to rest atop his, spreading her open. He positions himself at her entrance, sliding the head of it back and forth across her slit to coat himself with her wetness. He slowly pushes himself into her. She's already so wet from her previous orgasm that it requires very little effort for him to enter her fully.
"Anna..." Valentin grunts as her core takes hold of him.
Anna gasps at the contact and lays her head back against his chest. She feels so full, so complete with him entirely inside of her. He buries his lips in her hair as he begins to move slowly in and out of her.
The position gives his hand perfect access to the sensitive nub of nerves between her legs, which he circles gently with two fingers as he thrusts up into her. She inhales sharply at his touch and rocks back against his every thrust.
It's the opposite of the kinkier sex acts they'd engaged in earlier that night. Valentin's movements are slow and romantic as he strums his fingers against her clit.
By the noises Anna is making, he knows she is getting close. They have made love enough times that he recognizes the sounds and changes in how her body feels when she's about to climax. Her body is writhing within his grasp, desperately seeking her breaking point.
Valentin can feel the pressure building deep inside of him, too. He wraps his one around Anna's torso, pulling her as close to him as possible. Her fingers lace through his, and she hold their hands back against her. With his other hand, he pulls on her jutting hipbone for leverage to increase his speed inside of her.
Valentin gives a few more hard pushes into her before losing himself with a deep, guttural groan as he spills inside her. Feeling the twitching of his length inside of her is enough to finish Anna, who tightly pulses around him with a loud moan and the call of his name. Sweetest sound he's ever heard. Her head falls back as she shakes underneath him.
When she stills, he rests his damp forehead against her shoulder blade as he catches his breath. The darkened room goes quiet except for the sound of their ragged breathing.
"I love you, Anna."
She knows this. She's known it for years. But this is the first time he has actually said it since they started their relationship. It feels different hearing it now because as she has come to realize, the feeling is mutual.
"I love you too, Valentin."
They remain still in their embrace, intimately joined until he softens and slips naturally out of her. She rolls over in his arms to look at his face, running her hand down one of his cheeks.
"Hi."
"Hi yourself." Valentin smiles slightly.
"So..." Anna trails her fingers down through his chest hair. "That's the first time we've said that."
"It is." Valentin worriedly searches her face for doubt. "Do you regret it?"
"No." Anna says quickly, pulling his face to hers for a kiss. She cuddles closely into his chest, and he caresses up and down her spine. "Not in the least. I said it because it's true. None of this has been expected, but somehow, it's happened. I've fallen in love with you."
He strokes her shiny tendrils with one hand. "That's beyond anything I could have ever wished for."
She toys with a curl of his chest hair. "I feel safe with you. Not just physically, but like my feelings are safe with you. Like my heart is safe with you."
"I'll never do anything to hurt you."
She knows he means it, that he would never intentionally hurt her, but she has also been in enough relationships to know that it's impossible never to hurt the person you love. She's found that "happy ever after" is only a journey she's been on, never a destination; one she's not sure she believes in anymore.
But for this moment, with their warm bodies are nestled against each other, they are satisfied in the pleasure they have given each other. Valentin was so tender with Anna as he made love to her that her heart also feels full. They are in love.
Nothing else exists in the world right now but the two of them and this moment, so Anna lets herself believe that the impossible is true - that this feeling can last forever and that "happily ever after ever" is real.
Maybe, just maybe, it will be this time.