Bruce might have gone a decade without having this kind of intimacy with anyone, but he was far from inexperienced, and here it had been all too easy to pick up on things that he thought he'd forgotten a long time ago. The most complicated to him would always be the initial approach, but this time Josephine had taken the lead on that, and the rest just came more or less naturally. If it hadn't, he probably wouldn't be as aroused as he was right now.

He paused on the kisses just so he could take off her panties entirely, folding one of her legs up and then the other to manage that, and with that last piece of clothing tossed aside, he put his lips to her skin again, this time parting his lips and drawing his tongue across her nipple tentatively. As his eyes flickered up to test her reaction, his hands slid up her legs, knuckles of one brushing along her inner thigh, farther up until his touch was but an inch away from the warmth pooled between her legs.