Then her thighs.
He started at the inside of one knee and kissed his way up, slow, open-mouthed, and her leg shivered under him and her heel dug into the mattress. He reached the top and stopped short and went back down and started the other one, and Trisha made a small outraged noise and her hips rolled and she said his name again, sharper.
He only kissed the second knee and began again, and this time he went higher, and higher, and then — just short of the top, so close she could surely feel his breath — he veered away and kissed the soft crease where her thigh joined her hip instead.
She cursed, quietly and with feeling.
Danish smiled against her skin and finally gave her what she wanted.
He dragged his tongue up her in one long flat stroke, all the way, base to top, and Trisha came off the bed in a single clean arc and clapped her own hand over her mouth.
Then he did it again. And again. Slow, deliberate, tasting her, learning her, and she was wet and warm and her taste was sharp and faintly sweet on his tongue and he made a low sound of satisfaction against her that she felt all the way up through her spine.
She was not quiet for long, and she could not afford not to be. She dragged the sheet up again and got a fistful of it into her mouth and bit down, and after that the sounds were muffled and desperate and constant, spilling out of her around the cloth, and her free hand went into his hair and held on.
He changed it up. Long flat strokes, then short quick ones, then a circling that built and built and then dropped away. He found the place that made her thigh jump and went back to it every time, and once, when he had her climbing, he stopped entirely and kissed her inner thigh and let her come all the way down, and she pulled his hair hard enough to hurt.
"Again," she gasped. "Don't — don't stop again—"
He didn't. He put his mouth back and set a rhythm and kept it, and this time he did not let her fall, and her hips had begun to move with him in a broken rolling counterpoint and the sound she was making into the sheet had changed and gone high and thin and continuous. Her thighs closed hard around his ears. Her fist in his hair clenched.
"Danish — I'm — oh God, I'm—"
She broke.
Her back went into a deep bow and her whole body locked and then shook, and her hand tore the sheet away from her mouth and she turned her face into the pillow and the sound she made was long and low and shuddering and mostly swallowed by the pillowcase. He stayed with her, easing, gentling, softening his tongue as she came down in waves, and she flinched and shook through the last of them and finally her legs slid loose off his shoulders and fell open and lay still.
He kissed her thigh once and lifted his head.
Trisha lay spread and spent and glistening in the pale light, one arm flung over her eyes, her chest going hard and fast, the sheet in a knot under her hip. Her voice, when it came, was barely there at all.
"Come here," she whispered.
He came up her body and she pulled her arm off her eyes and looked at him, dazed and soft and undone, and reached up with both hands and brought his mouth down to hers.
She kissed him slowly, tasting herself on him, and he felt the small pause in her when she did it — the catch, the hesitation, the way her tongue grew curious and then deliberate.
She kissed him slowly, and she was tasting herself on him, and he felt the small pause in her when she did it — the catch, the hesitation, the way her tongue grew curious and then deliberate.
Trisha drew back. Her lips were still against his and she didn't go far.
"He's never done that," she whispered.
Danish's brow moved. "What?"
"Licked me." Her voice was low, almost embarrassed, the way a woman is embarrassed by a thing that isn't her fault. "Rajesh. Not once. Twenty-two years." She shook her head faintly against the pillow. "I didn't even know it could be like that. That's the first time anyone's — " She stopped and swallowed. "The first time."
Danish looked down at her, at the wetness still shining on her chin and the dazed softness in her eyes and something in him turned hard and sore and protective all at once. Twenty-two years. Twenty-two years and no one had ever put their mouth on her.
"Then you've been missing a lot," he said quietly.
She laughed, small and shaky. "I gathered."
"Don't worry." He kissed the corner of her mouth. "You'll get it whenever you want it. Any time. Just say."
Her eyes went bright and she looked away, and her throat worked. "Danish—"
"Whenever you want," he said again, and she nodded against the pillow and pulled him down and held him a moment with her face pressed into his neck.
Then she moved, and she kept moving — she got her hands flat on his chest and pushed, and he rolled off her onto his back and she came up over him on her hands and knees, and her hair fell forward around her face, and she looked down at him and she was smiling now, a slow, deliberate, dangerous smile.
Her hand went down. It found the waistband of his shorts. She pulled, and he lifted his hips and let her work them off, and when they were gone she looked down the length of him and stopped.
The bulge in his underwear was obvious and large and it had been there a while, and she could see the shape of it clearly, and she put her palm over it and pressed down flat, and Danish let his head drop back against the mattress with a low sound.
She drew the underwear down herself, slowly, and he sprang free of it.
Trisha's breath went out of her. She looked at him — actually looked, her eyes moving from base to tip and back — and her mouth came open slightly and she didn't bother hiding it.
She had never seen one this close. Not properly. Not held and examined in her own hand with a lamp of streetlight lying across it. It was thick, thicker than she'd have guessed a thing could be, and long, and it curved a little, and the skin of it was taut and warm and she could see it move with his heartbeat. She put her hand around it and her fingers didn't meet.
"God," she said softly, more to herself than to him.
Danish laughed, breathless. "Good?"
She looked up at him and her smile came back, and she didn't answer, and she bent her head and took him into her mouth.
The sound Danish made came up out of his chest and stuck in his throat. Her mouth was hot and wet and careful, and she took him shallow at first, learning, going a little further each time and drawing back, and her hand worked the rest of him, and the sight of her — his mother-in-law, hair falling loose around her face, cheeks hollowing as she found her rhythm — was almost more than he could hold.
She got comfortable. She got bolder. She took him deeper and her hand moved faster and there was nothing tentative left in it, and Danish's hand found her head and rested there, not pushing yet, just there, just feeling her move.
"Like that," he said, hoarse. "That's — keep doing that."
She hummed around him and he felt it all the way to his toes.
After a while his hand grew firmer. He guided her — a little pressure at the back of her head, a thumb at the corner of her jaw to ease her wider — and she made a small surprised noise and went with it, and then deeper than she'd gone before, and she had to pull off and gasp and go back.
"Breathe through your nose," he said quietly. "Don't fight it."
She nodded, and tried again, and this time she got it.
And she got lost in it. Trisha had her eyes shut and her hand braced on his thigh and she was working him steadily, and around a mouthful she pulled back enough to speak, her voice thick.
"I've wanted to do this for years," she said. "Years, Danish. Just — like this."
"Rajesh?"
She shook her head. "He never lasts. Two minutes. He's finished before I've even started properly." She bent and took him again, and came back up, and her eyes were dark. "I never get to do it long enough."
Danish's hand tightened in her hair.
"You want long?" he said.
She looked up at him. "Please."
He gathered her hair into his fist and held it, and pressed her back down, and this time he set the pace. Not rough, but not gentle either — a steady pressure, taking her deeper, keeping her there when she'd have come up for air. Trisha's hands went flat on his hips and her back bowed and she made a muffled, desperate sound and her eyes watered at the corners, and she didn't fight it. She went slack and let him.
He let her up. She gasped, and a thin thread of wet still joined her to him, and she wiped her mouth with the back of her wrist.
"Again," she said.
He laughed, once, disbelieving. "You'll be the death of me."
And he pushed her back down.
He kept her down.
Not cruelly — his fist in her hair was a steady thing, guiding rather than forcing, but he didn't let her up whenever she'd have liked, and that was the point. Trisha's hands slid from his hips to his thighs and gripped there, and her back settled into a long curve, and she stopped trying to set her own rhythm entirely and let him set it for her.
The room filled up with the sound of it. Wet, rhythmic, obscene in the quiet. Danish had one arm folded behind his head and his eyes half shut and he watched her through the blur of it — the shine of her lips, the strand of hair stuck to her cheek, the way her shoulders moved. Twenty-two years of a man who finished in two minutes had produced this, this hungry, thorough, unembarrassed thing she did with her tongue and her hand together, and he could not get over it.
He let her up. She gasped and took a breath and went straight back down without being told.
"God," he said. "You're good at this."
She made a sound around him — pleasure at the praise, he could feel it travel — and her hand tightened on his thigh and she took him deeper than she had all night, and Danish's whole body clenched.
"Easy," he breathed. "Easy, or this ends now."
She pulled off slowly, a deliberate drag, and looked up at him with her chin wet and her eyes half-lidded and insolent. "Then don't let it."
He got his other hand into her hair then, both of them now, and drew her back down.
It went on. He lost track of the minutes; the streetlight had moved along the wall and dimmed and the room had gone darker and quieter and he no longer cared. He pushed and she took it and he eased and she came up for air, and back down, and back down, and somewhere in the middle of it her hand found the base of him and worked in time with her mouth and he felt the pull building low in his belly like a drawn wire.
Her eyes were streaming at the corners now and she didn't stop. She had a hand braced flat on the mattress for balance and her knees had slid wider apart and her hips had started a slow, unconscious circling in the air, like her body couldn't be in that position and not think about being filled.
He watched her do it. He watched her thighs shift and her back dip and the small, helpless motion of her hips, and it nearly finished him.
Something in the way she said it went straight through him. He sat up a little, propped on one elbow, and pulled her up by the hair and kissed her wet mouth.
"Then get back down there and pace yourself," he said against it. "Slow. You've got all night."
He got both hands into her hair.
Both of them, this time, cradling her skull, thumbs at her temples — and then his hips came up off the mattress.
Slow. Deep. A long unhurried push upward into her mouth, all the way, and then a long slide back down, and Trisha's eyes flew open wide and she made a sound that vibrated straight up through him.
He did it again. And again.
Her hands slid off his thighs entirely and she just held on, flat-palmed against the bed on either side of him, and let him. Her back was in a low arch and her knees were wide and her whole weight was forward and her mouth was full of him and her eyes had fluttered shut again, and there was nothing at all in her face but pleasure.
She loved it. He could see it, he could feel it — the way she went soft and receptive under the pressure instead of fighting it, the way she pushed back into his thrusts, the way her tongue worked at the underside of him even now, unprompted, sloppy and eager. Twenty-two years of two-minute men and here she was, taking it, wanting it, making small wrecked sounds around him every time he bottomed out.
Danish went a little deeper.
Trisha's eyes watered and she pulled her mouth free and gasped — and then went straight back down before he could ask, took him in again herself, and pushed her own head down on him until her lips met her own fist.
"God," he said, and his hips bucked.
The pace broke after that. He lost the patience for slow. His hands tightened in her hair and he set it harder — still measured, still not brutal, but with an edge to it now, and Trisha took every stroke and stayed down and her shoulders shook with the effort of it and she did not once pull away.
The sound was relentless. Wet and deep and rhythmic, and under it her breathing through her nose, fast and ragged, and under that the small crackling creak of the bed frame.
He felt it coming and he stopped her.
"Off," he said, urgent, and she pulled her mouth away — and he caught himself in his own fist just in time and let out a long unsteady breath, and then he was tapping it against her lips, light, unhurried, across the lower one, up over the corner, and then against the soft of her cheek.
Trisha's eyes drifted half shut. She turned her face into it, and he dragged the head of it slowly over her cheekbone and back to her mouth and pressed, and she opened and he let it slide just barely in and drew it out again. She chased it with her tongue, and he tapped her lips once more and she smiled and licked them.
He gave himself a moment then. He took his hand away and lay there breathing, staring at the ceiling, letting the urgency drain down and away, and beside him Trisha lay with her cheek on her arm and watched him, and there was something quietly triumphant in her face.
Then he reached for her.
He got her by the wrist and pulled her up and kissed her, deep, and rolled her over and over across the sheets, her laughing against his mouth, and then she was under him again and he was over her and the laughing had stopped and the air had gone thick and still.
He put his mouth to her ear.
"You're way better than Kavya at that," he whispered. "Way better."
Trisha's breath hitched.
"Now I want to see how you take me." He drew back to look at her. "And I'm sure you're better at that too."
Her eyes moved over his face, and something worried came into them. "Danish — are you sure? About this? About… all of it?"
"Shh." He kissed the corner of her mouth. "No one will ever know. Just once."
She nodded, small and quick.
He reached down between them and took himself in hand.
He found her, and she was slick and open and more than ready, and he worked the head of it slowly up her once, twice, gathering her wetness, and Trisha's hips lifted into it. Then he set himself and pressed.
And pressed.
The head went in, just barely, and Trisha's mouth came open and her breath left her in a thin high rush, and her hands flew up and caught his shoulders.
He was too big for her. He could feel it — the resistance, the tightness of her gripping him at just the crown, the way her body was already deciding whether it could. He held still and let her have the moment, and her nails dug in, and her head turned to the side against the pillow.
"Danish—" Her voice came out squeezed.
"Breathe," he said. "Don't hold it. Breathe out."
She tried. Her breath left her in a shaky spill and her hips sank back against the bed, and the small sinking gave him another inch.
Her eyes went wide. Her whole body tightened and then, deliberately, went loose.
"God," she whispered. "God, you're — you're big—"
"Shh. Take your time."
He watched her face. He'd have stopped, and she knew it, and that was perhaps why she didn't ask him to. She got her feet flat on the mattress instead and let her knees fall wider, and she lifted her hips to him by fractions, and he pressed in a little more and she pushed against it and it gave.
Another inch. Then another.
Her mouth was open and her breathing was coming in short, sharp pulls and she had one hand twisted in the sheet and the other flat on his chest, and her eyes were fixed on his like she was holding on to him through it.
"Half," she got out. "You're — about half—"
"I know." He kissed her forehead, her eyebrow, the bridge of her nose. "You're doing it. Just like that."
"Talk to me," she whispered suddenly. "Keep talking."
"All right." He kissed the corner of her mouth. "You're taking it. You're taking all of it, look at you, you're so tight I can hardly— " He pressed again, a slow steady pressure, and she whimpered and pushed and it gave again, and he was deeper. "That's it. That's it, Trisha. Almost. Just a little more."
Her hand on his chest flattened and then her arm came up and hooked round his neck and drew him down close, her face into his shoulder, and her hips rolled up in a slow searching motion and opened, and he sank the rest of the way into her in one smooth slide.
Trisha cried out — a small, sharp, muffled cry against his shoulder — and then she went completely still.
So did he.
Buried to the hilt. Her body clamped around him so tight it was nearly unbearable. He could feel her pulse, and her heart going like a bird under her ribs, and the fine tremble running through her thighs. Her teeth were set in his shoulder, not quite biting.
"All right?" he said, low, into her hair.
She nodded against him, then shook her head, then nodded again. Her legs came up and wrapped round his waist and locked at the ankles.
"Don't move yet," she whispered. "Just — give me a minute. Just a minute."
He didn't move. He held himself there, filling her, and pressed his lips to her hair, and waited.
He began to move.
Slow. So slow it was almost nothing — a long draw back and a long push in, and he kept his mouth on hers through it, kissing her in small pieces, letting her feel him leave and come back. Trisha's legs stayed locked round his waist and her hands moved over his back, and every inward stroke made her breath catch into his mouth and every outward one made her sigh.
Her body was learning. He could feel the resistance going out of it, the clamp easing into something softer and warmer, something that gave. She got wetter — he felt that too, felt it slick and spreading between them, heard it begin to make a sound with every push — and her hips started to come up to meet him, and she stopped kissing him back and just breathed against his lips and let him.
After a few minutes of that, the slow stopped being enough for either of them.
He went deeper. Not faster yet, just deeper — a longer reach into her, and Trisha's head went back and a low sound came out of her, and her heels pressed hard into his lower back.
"There," she whispered. "Oh — right there—"
He found it and stayed with it. Same unhurried rhythm, but the whole length of him now, all the way out to the crown and all the way back in, and her body was so wet that the inward strokes were landing with a soft wet sound and the sound was getting louder.
She was a little soft, Trisha. There was weight to her hips and her belly and the inside of her thighs, and when his body met hers it made a slap — a good one, a full and ringing one, and it carried in the quiet room in a way that made both of them glance at the door.
Trisha got a hand up and pressed it over her own mouth.
Danish bent and put his forehead to hers. "It's fine," he whispered. "He sleeps like a stone."
"He's right there—"
"Then be quiet." He pushed in harder, and the slap came again, and she squeezed her eyes shut. "Or don't."
She laughed behind her hand, and then the laugh broke into a moan.
He picked up the pace.
Not a lunge, not a hammering — he found a speed and set it, a good steady driving rhythm, and the slaps came now at a regular cadence, wet and heavy and loud, and the headboard began to tap softly at the wall behind them. Trisha's hand came off her mouth and she turned her face into the pillow instead and her hips were slamming up to meet him and the bed was creaking in earnest.
He kept it. Same speed, same depth, minute after minute without a break — no games now, no slowing, no teasing, just the steady relentless rhythm of it and her body taking every stroke and giving it back.
Her hand twisted in the pillowcase. Her heels dug in. Her moans had gone smothered and constant, one long muffled stream of them, and the pillow was doing less and less to hold them back.
And Danish watched her — hair a mess across her face, one breast pushed to the side by the pillow, her mouth open and her eyes shut — and the sound of his own hips against her filled the room, and he did not slow down.
"You all right?" he got out, breathless.
She nodded frantically into the pillow. "Don't — don't stop. Don't you dare stop."
He didn't.
He pulled out of her and rolled onto his back, and he took her by the waist and brought her up over him.
Trisha understood. She came up on her knees and swung a leg across him and settled down, and he held himself steady for her and she took him in one long sinking slide, and her head fell back and her hair came down her spine.
She sat there a moment, full of him, adjusting. Then she started to move.
And it was different at once — entirely different. She found her angle immediately, that particular forward tilt that put him where she needed him, and she rolled her hips into it and her mouth came open and she made a sound of pure relief.
She set the speed. Slow at first, a long grinding rock, and then quicker, and she leaned back with her hands on his thighs and gave herself over to it. Her breasts moved with every roll of her hips. Her hair swung. She was biting her lip and her eyes were shut and she was entirely in command, and Danish lay under her and watched and let her have it.
"That's it," he said. "Take what you want."
She did. She took her own depth, her own rhythm, and she varied it — deep and slow and grinding, then shallow and fast, and she rode him in a way that made her breath break apart and her thighs work and her fingers curl. Twice she slowed almost to a stop and circled her hips, her eyes rolling back, and twice she sped up until she was gasping.
Danish let her have it. Then he got his hands on her hips.
He lifted her — up off him, a little clear of him, so only the head still held — and he thrust up into her from below.
Trisha's eyes flew open and she cried out.
He did it again, harder, and the slap of it rang through the room. And again. And again. Quick, driving, upward strokes with her held slightly high in his hands, and her weight came down on him with every one and the sound was loud, much louder than it had been, thick and wet and cracking off the walls.
"Oh God—" She got her hand out and caught the headboard. "Danish — oh God — yes—"
She loved it. He could see that she loved it, in the way her head dropped forward and her mouth hung open and her whole body went loose and receptive in his hands. He kept the pace and the angle and she took it and moaned and moaned, and then she folded down over him, her chest to his, and found his mouth and kissed him.
She kissed him while she rode. Her hips never stopped. It was a sloppy, breathless, half-broken kiss, both of them gasping into it, her tongue in his mouth and her body working on him, and Danish's hands slid up her back and held her there.
He broke the kiss at her ear.
"I'm close," he whispered.
She nodded against his cheek, and kissed his jaw, and then he moved.
He got her by the waist and lifted her off and rolled her onto her back in one motion, and she made a startled sound — and then he had both her ankles and he put her legs up, one and then the other, and hooked them over his shoulders.
She was folded almost in half under him, wide open, and he drove in.
Trisha screamed. She actually screamed, a short sharp one, and then clapped her own hand over her mouth and screamed into it instead.
He didn't slow. He didn't pace it. He fucked her, hard and fast and deep, the whole length of him each time, and the slaps came like a drumbeat and the headboard started hammering at the wall — tap-tap-tap-tap, fast and loud — and the bed frame complained under all of it.
He'd stopped caring about the door.
Rajesh took a tablet at night, half a strip of them, and went under like a stone at eleven and didn't surface till six; Danish had listened to him snore through the wall for four months. Nothing short of a fire alarm was going to bring him out of that room tonight. Let it be loud. Let the whole house hear.
Her legs over his shoulders were shaking already. She had her hands above her head, palms flat to the headboard, bracing against his thrusts, and her mouth was open and her moans were coming free now — not smothered, not hidden, just out, full and loud and rising.
"Danish — Danish — oh God —"
He gritted his teeth and kept the pace.
Five minutes. Five solid minutes of it, and she broke twice more under him — small ones, shuddering ones that ran through her legs and made her sob — and he still didn't stop, and then it built in her properly and her voice climbed and cracked and her legs began to shake against his shoulders.
"I'm — I'm going to — oh God, Danish—"
"Cum," he said. "Go on. Let it."
She came.
Her back went into a deep arch and her whole body seized and then convulsed, and her legs on his shoulders shook hard, vibrating, out of her control entirely, and her hands came off the headboard and her nails raked down his arms. The sound she made was long and broken and nothing like a word. He kept driving, kept her through it, and her legs shook and shook and her body jerked with every stroke and it went on and on and she was sobbing by the end of it.
Her legs had gone limp over his shoulders. Danish's jaw was clenched and his breath was a hard rasp and the pressure at the base of his spine had gone unbearable, and he drove in deep and stayed, one last grinding push, and let go.
He came with a roar. Not a gasp, not a groan — an actual roar, torn up out of his chest, loud enough to fill the room and spill into the passage. His hips jerked and bucked with it and he emptied into her deep and hot, and Trisha felt it and cried out faintly and her hand came up and clutched at his forearm.
He held there, buried, shuddering, while it ran through him in waves.
Then his arms gave and he came down over her, her legs sliding off his shoulders and falling open, and he lay on her, heavy and spent and slick with sweat, his face in her neck, both of them dragging for air.
The headboard was still. The room rang with the silence after.
Under him, Trisha's heart was slamming. She got a hand into his hair and held his head where it was, and her other arm came round his back.
Neither of them said anything for a long time.