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  I look up into his warm brown eyes, and I know he means it. And I also know, when my hands rove to his crotch, that he needs to come too.

  His eyebrows shoot up when I unfasten his jeans and get him out, but then his smile widens and goes sort of smug, and very, very male.

  He’s a nice size. A very nice size. It’s a great shame we can’t put Tab A into Slot B on this occasion, but I resolve to rectify that situation sooner rather than later. Next time we come out for a walk, I’ll have condoms. Lots of them.

  I begin to rub him and he cups his hand around mine, guiding my strokes. I don’t mind this. I want to please him. I want to give him exactly the kind of wank that he prefers, because, God knows, he got his fondling of me spot on.

  We slip and slide, using the silky fluid that flows from his tip as a lubricant. He mutters and whispers, praising my technique and also letting out some far less cogent utterances. It doesn’t take long because he doesn’t hold back and, pretty soon, he’s arching and snarling silently, his penis jerking and jetting out his cream.

  I kiss him as he comes, just as he kissed me while I came. And, as promised, his come does end up in the bushes.

  On the way home, I don’t quite know what to say to him, and I find myself worrying about what lies ahead for us. Or for me, because, despite my hopes, there might not be an ‘us’. He’ll be getting a flat or a house soon, and he’ll move away, and out of my circle. My job and his university are miles and poles apart. Perry’s hand slips into mine and gently but firmly jerks me to a stop. ‘Why the frown?’

  It’s hard to explain. I still want him. But I want more. And it’s awkward. To him this was probably just a frolic, an illicit ‘liaison’, nothing more. I bite my lip and, just as I’m about to summon up some kind of explanation, not the real reason, but something acceptable and not too embarrassing for both of us, his impish, stubbly face settles into very firm and professorial lines. ‘Katie, what sort of man do you think I am?’

  I shrug. ‘I don’t know. I barely know you at all. That’s the problem. You must think I’m awfully cheap and easy and slutty.’

  ‘Please, don’t go there again. I don’t think that at all. Except only in the nicest, sexiest way.’ He pulls me to him, and gives me a very chaste kiss on the tip of the nose. ‘Now we’ve broken the ice, I’d like to go back to the beginning, and do things differently. Properly.’

  My heart thuds. ‘What do you mean?’

  ‘How would you feel about dinner? A trip to the theatre? A stroll that doesn’t involve Adultery Alley?’

  I’m speechless.

  ‘In fact, I think it would be nice if we took your mother out somewhere for dinner too some time. So she can get used to us as a couple, if you know what I mean?’

  ‘That’d be lovely.’

  He smiles. ‘I want her to think that I’m above board, and worthy of her daughter.’ He gives me a wink. ‘So that when I get my own place and you stay overnight, she won’t be too cross with me.’

  ‘I can’t wait.’ I throw my arms around him and give him a hug, my heart lighter than it’s been in a long time. ‘But do you think we can still pop down to the Alley now and again as well? I’d still like to be naughty on occasion. And I still like to watch.’

  He laughs and shakes his head. ‘Oh, don’t you worry. We’ll still be naughty too.’ He slides his arm around my waist, then lets his hand rest on my bottom. ‘We’ll be incredibly naughty. Naughtier than you can possibly imagine.’ My pussy ripples again in anticipation. ‘But I think we’d probably best not tell your mother about that.’

  ‘Yeah, probably not.’ I kiss him, and the future suddenly looks incredibly bright.

  Portia Da Costa is the author of the Black Lace novels Continuum, Entertaining Mr Stone, Gemini Heat, Gothic Blue, Hotbed, Shadowplay, Suite Seventeen, The Devil Inside, The Stranger, The Tutor, In Too Deep and Kiss It Better. Her paranormal novellas are included in the Black Lace collections Lust Bites and Magic and Desire.

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