God, he could get used to this. She's luminous, gorgeous, gazing up at him like that, all but squirming in place as he touches her. He's seized, suddenly, by an uncharacteristic desire to take her apart completely, to see all of the different ways he could make her face look just like that. He might never have been good at serious relationships, but he's slept with enough girls to know what he's doing. Still squeezing, still gentle, he scrapes the edge of one thumbnail then the other over her nipples.