KNOX’S POV
She laughs, and it shakes both of us, and she reaches back with one hand and shoves the tap the rest of the way open, and the tub finally starts filling in earnest, hot water climbing up around us.
We sit there while it comes up.
She turns around eventually and settles back against my chest, and I get my arms round her under the water.
She pulls my hands up and folds them over her bare stomach and holds them there with her own.
I can still feel the throb of what we just did. The tenderness in her, the ache in me, the proof of it between her thighs.
I exhale.
Properly. All the way down. First real breath I’ve taken in hours, and it goes out of me so long that she notices and squeezes my hands.
Somewhere past that door, the house is still moving, still full of guards and j
