her response is as immediate as it is adorable. his whole body shakes with laughter at her look. he moves to grab the grapes before she can, but she is a lot faster and isn't burdened by the fact that she's laughing her ass off. 

and then there's just one grape left. in her hurry, he manages to grab it. he holds it to his lips, and then grabs it with his teeth, holding it there with one brow cocked - both an invitation and a challenge.

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eden's lips graze his and juice dribbles down from the grape. he tilts his head to the side. his chin comes up and he swallows his half, but it tastes bland because it's like all of his senses are just focusing on seeing this girl in front of him. 

"you're a tease," he says. he flicks his tongue out to catch some of the juice that had slipped down her own chin.

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"now you're just being cruel." the grape-taunter. is that his calling card now? he doesn't know if it's own remark that brings out this terrible, sexy side of her, but she really is being cruel now. they haven't had much time to be intimate together, mostly because of his own desire to wait until her wounds have fully healed. 

because waking up after the morning of the first and last time they'd slept together had been quite troublesome - they'd reopened her wounds and then they've been dealing with the fallout from her dad and

this is a long time coming. she's being rough with his hair and he loves it. and when she finally kisses him with a fervor, he is able to match her with equal enthusiasm. he squeezes her hips and pulls her closer.

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he will give her anything she wants, but he can't shake that feeling of how fragile she is, of how tender he must be with her. even if it's a nick from the stones, from the scraping of their tumbling, he cannot bear to find a bruise or a scratch of his own doing on her still-healing body. 

so he doesn't push as he might have. he lets her settle against him and he allows his hands to float up to the surface of the simmering water, so he can gently grace her sides, the swell of her chest, the curve of her shoulders. he explores her gently as she forces open his mouth with her own and draws him in with a soft moan. 

@eden

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his arms reflexively tighten when she shivers. the sweat dries on their skin, leaving their flushed bodies cold. he looks behind her at the sauna and is about to offer to dip them back in when she asks him, not playfully as he had her, if she'd enjoyed it. 

he leans back so he can look at her with a bewildered expression. "uh, yeah? princess, i'd do this all day for you and consider myself fuckin' lucky." he laughs into her hair and draws her closer. 

"and yes, of course it's okay to cuddle. do you want to stay here? do you want to get back in the sauna? can i take you to bed? granted, i think we should...rinse off regardless."

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"then relaxing in the water it is," he says. he slides into the sauna after her, giving her a bit of a concerned look when her back is turned. did i take it too far? was it something i said? he's not one for self-doubt and it certainly seemed like eden was enjoying herself. 

but he can see where his nails left a couple of red marks and how some of his movements could have been construed as aggressive. 

but he's duty-bound, so he follows her in and scoops her bridal style so she can snuggle up against his chest. 

"i'm happy, you know," he says. "you make me happy."

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