M rated part later in the chapter
Suzy dropped Steve off at his house a little later that day after a round of celebratory drinks.
"Here you go," Suzy said as she pulled up outside Steve's home.
"Yeah," said Steve.
"That was quite an afternoon wasn't it?" Suzy said.
"I was starting to brick it, that we weren't going to find those pants," Steve admitted.
"Now you tell me!" Suzy joked before she grew serious. "You did it though," she said as something outside Steve's house caught her eye. "You really did slay the dragon this time. He's well and truly dead and buried. There's no coming back from the dead,".
Tristan had admitted everything when faced with the underwear at the police station. He'd developed a dislike for women after his step mother had been particularly cruel to him as a young boy. His taste for terrorising them occurred after his initiation ceremony into his new university's martial arts club three years previously. He had had to retrieve a waitress's pair of underwear to be granted access to the club. Stealing underwear had slowly progressed to penetrative sexual assault. He admitted raping sixteen of the women whose underwear he had in his possession.
"Didn't get the girl though, did I?" Steve pointed out, sadly. He hadn't heard from Kate since news of Tristan's arrest was made public.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Suzy said, pointing at his front door where a person was sat on the doorstep. Said person hadn't registered Steve as he was in Suzy's car.
"Kate!" Steve said but didn't move out of the car.
"Well go on," Suzy encouraged as she shooed him out of the car, "Princesses don't like to be kept waiting!" she informed him.
The opening of the car door and Steve getting out caught Kate's eye and she started to get up off the floor.
"Good luck," Suzy wished Steve before giving Kate a brief wave which was returned, and she drove off.
"Hi," said Steve awkwardly, stood frozen at the end of the path to his front door.
"Hi," replied Kate as she wiped her hands on her jeans. "Do you know what I've been thinking as I've been sat here?" she asked him.
Steve shook his head.
"Your front garden is very bare and boring," Kate informed him. "We could brighten it up by buying some enormous pots and putting some bright coloured flowers in them. It would be very welcoming to any guests,".
"I'm worse at gardening than you are, Kate," Steve said as he walked slowly down his garden path. "I can kill a cactus in a couple of days,".
"Just as well I've picked up some tips," Kate replied. "I can pass them on,".
"Is that why you popped by?" Steve asked. "To talk about improving my front garden?". Kate shook her head. "Wanna go inside?". Kate nodded.
Steve brushed past Kate and opened the door to his home before letting Kate enter first. "Cup of tea?".
"Please," Kate said and she watched from the kitchen door as Steve filled the kettle with water from the tap.
"So my barrister called," Kate said nonchalantly. "The trial is over. Tristan changed his plea to guilty,"
"So I heard," Steve replied as he set the kettle to boil and turned to face Kate, leaning casually against a work surface. After splitting up because of his over-involvement in tracking Tristan down, he didn't want to admit he had kept going.
"You had something to do with that underwear being found, didn't you?" Kate asked as she took a step closer to Steve. She didn't really know why she asked the question because she knew the answer already. And she knew why he'd done it as well. For her. And she found herself loving him a whole lot more.
"Ahh I think you'll find that was Suzy and her team," Steve said as he rubbed his right ear.
"But you helped," Kate prodded as she took another step towards Steve.
"Not really," Steve said, rubbing his ear again.
"Do you know you rub your ear when you lie?" Kate asked before taking Steve's face in her hands and bringing his lips to hers.
Steve's hands instantly went to Kate's waist, pulling her closer to him as the kiss deepened as the two lovers reconnected.
"The kettle's boiled," Steve murmured as they broke apart naturally.
"Not really interested in a cup of tea anymore," Kate said as she tugged on Steve's hands and led them to his bedroom. Moira had told her she would know when she was ready to have sex again and she was right.
"Are you sure?" Steve asked, remembering the last time they had tried this and he'd been on the wrong end of Kate's fists.
"Absolutely," Kate said as she started undoing Steve's shirt eagerly. "I promise you are safe this time,".
"You're in charge," Steve informed her. He would happily let her take the dominant role this time.
It wasn't long before Steve was on his back with Kate straddling him before she lowered herself on to his length. She gasped in pleasure as he passed her entrance.
"You ok?" Steve asked.
"Yeah," Kate acknowledged happily. Tristan had been the last person inside her and it was almost like she was finally exorcising him from her body as Steve went deeper.
They both groaned in mutual pleasure once Kate reached Steve's lap and they were connected in the most intimate of ways. The overwhelming fullness in her lower belly felt good for Kate whilst Steve revelled in the tight grip of Kate's internal muscles along his whole length.
"Shit! I forgot a condom!" Steve said in a panic as he realised he wasn't wearing any contraception. Kate had never felt so good to him before and he'd worked out why.
"My HIV test was negative," Kate informed him gently. She'd been to the SARC and had her test done a couple of weeks previously. "You won't catch anything. I'm clean," she said shyly.
"I was actually more worried about getting you pregnant," Steve retorted truthfully as he lovingly tucked a strand of Kate's hair behind her ear.
"Relax," replied Kate. "I've had the coil fitted as well," she explained before she leant forward until her head was mere centimetres from Steve's.
"Well that's ok then," Steve murmured before Kate closed the remaining distance between their lips and took him in a deep kiss .
Whilst their tongues moved sensually over each other in a well rehearsed dance, Kate started to slowly rock her hips in an up and down motion, sliding up and down Steve's length.
"Oh god, Kate," Steve said breathily once their kiss had finished as her snug muscles once again enveloped his length.
"You like?" Kate asked as her hips rose and lowered again. Her face remained close to his, eyes staring deep in to his, almost as if she was looking in to her lover's soul as she made love to him.
"Very much so," Steve informed Kate, returning her gaze as he gently stroked the skin of her back, his fingers tracing up the vertebrae of her spine, leaving goosebumps in their wake.
Kate continued to languidly glide up and down Steve's shaft, simultaneous moans of pleasure punctuated the serenity of the room as she did so.
Feeling the vague onset of an orgasm approaching, Kate pushed herself up so she was sitting upright on Steve's lap once again before taking hold of the headboard.
In this position she could intensify her movements. The moans of pleasure filling the room were gradually replaced with pants of exertion as the pace of their lovemaking increased.
Steve's hands wandered to her hips, gripping them gently to help maintain her rhythm as he felt his climax approaching as well.
"Oh god," Kate couldn't help exclaim as her longed for orgasm grew steadily closer. "Please," she whimpered, almost begging her body to give her what she desperately wanted. Reaching orgasm would prove to her that she could enjoy sex again.
Eager to help Kate, Steve gripped her hips tighter and pulled her down more firmly on to his lap with each downward motion of her hips.
"Oh yes," Kate whispered in response. The increased pressure was causing delightful friction against her most sensitive spot as it rubbed against Steve's pubic bone.
Steve grunted in pleasure as he felt Kate's muscles start to tighten around him.
"Oh god!" Kate screamed as she let go of the headboard and threw her head back euphorically as wave upon wave of ecstasy coursed throughout her body.
"Oh god, Kate……..fuck," Steve grunted as the rhythmic clenching of Kate's internal muscles around his shaft tipped him over the edge and he felt his essence leave him in warm thick spurts.