[She sees that change... that flicker in his eyes. She recognizes it well—it had been one that she'd stared deep, deep into at the masquerade, even through the masks, and especially without them. For a moment, she's completely lost within it, her mind spinning as the memories come flooding back, and it's only made worse when he takes her hand and presses it firmly to his chest.
She swallows past that giant lump in her throat, and he'll feel her fingers shaking as he moves them along the plane of muscles over his stomach. She can feel each one carved so intricately, and she remembers how it felt when she had let her hands press to them, touch them, take in the feel of them...
It isn't until he stops right at the waist of his pants that she finally realizes what's going on and what she's doing... or not doing...
What is she doing!? WHAT'S HE DOING?
They said they were going to let things happen naturally, and there is nothing natural about this.
Sputtering, Ilsa snaps her hand away from him and steps back, almost tripping on Valo again as she goes, but he moves away just in time that she doesn't fall completely, and as she rights herself, she screams at him, her face and neck now red as tomatoes.]
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She swallows past that giant lump in her throat, and he'll feel her fingers shaking as he moves them along the plane of muscles over his stomach. She can feel each one carved so intricately, and she remembers how it felt when she had let her hands press to them, touch them, take in the feel of them...
It isn't until he stops right at the waist of his pants that she finally realizes what's going on and what she's doing... or not doing...
What is she doing!? WHAT'S HE DOING?
They said they were going to let things happen naturally, and there is nothing natural about this.
Sputtering, Ilsa snaps her hand away from him and steps back, almost tripping on Valo again as she goes, but he moves away just in time that she doesn't fall completely, and as she rights herself, she screams at him, her face and neck now red as tomatoes.]
WITH WHAT?