Marley pressed her lips together. She couldn't decide if she was disappointed...or relieved. If there was more she needed to know, more that they needed to do together even before sex taking it slow was the best option. Marley has always been the girl to dip her toes into a pool before jumping in. "So...we're not...we're not going to..."
"Believe me, I want to, Marley. I really, really want to," he rasped, and the lust-filled desperation behind his words made the back of her neck tinge red. "But," he swallowed, and a calmness returned behind his eyes again. "that would be too much at once. It was always the plan to take things slow with you...well...being so...you."
Marley's eyebrows furrowed, as her curiosity spiked. "How-"