She calls his name and his heart takes flight, skidding like a seabird over the waves. With the last of his ability to hold himself back, he runs his hands over her body, caressing her from breasts to back and down along her sides. His eyes, when he manages to open them, are nearly wholly black, with the thinnest sliver of gray around it.

"Su," he pleads, and drops one hand low on her belly, sliding his thumb back against that sensitive bud in a caress meant to send her over the edge.