There was a long moment after he spoke which bordered both s****l tension and compassionate understanding. The words could have been taken either way, or even as solemn acknowledgement that they couldn’t change the position they were in so they might as well look for the good in it. The way he was looking at her made her think that it was probably all three.
She was acutely aware that he still had one hand in her hair and the other rested on her body and while she didn’t have the same reflexes as his kind she was able to move with a surprising agility from beside him to on top of him which despite his usual perceptiveness and ability to predict what she would do left him taken aback.
“That was unexpected,” he began to speak but she cut him off, kissing him passionately and surprising he
