Shane had her eyes closed all this time while but she could feel Carmen’s finger, gently dabbing at her eyelids. It was oddly titillating and on impulse, she opened her eyes and found herself looking into the rich, warm depths of Carmen’s toffee-colored eyes. Carmen clearly did not expect this as she still had the eye shadow palette in one hand. Shane dropped her gaze to Carmen’s full lips, which were shimmering with the faintest hint of lip gloss. Shane acted on her instincts. Her instincts told her she had to taste them. She placed her hands on the arms of the seat and arched her neck up. A soft kiss, feathering her own lips against Carmen’s. It tasted like an odd mixture of morning coffee and strawberry: sweet, bitter and irresistible. She didn’t intend to take it any further. Whether that was true, she would never know because Carmen made a little sound deep in her throat – a sound of longing and despair. That little moan drove Shane crazy. She stood up from her seat and angled her head, deepening the kiss and placing her hands on the bare skin exposed by the low waistline of Carmen’s jeans.

Carmen felt herself backed against the dressing table, with Shane’s lean body pressed against hers. Her lips were soft, damp and questing against hers. It was a kiss of such startling sweetness that she felt tears spring to her eyes as a gnawing, yearning warmth started in the pit of her stomach and grew, spiraling outward, downward, filling her. With such heat and longing that she began to tremble herself, and she wanted to move closer, to sink against her, into her, to press against her and dissolve.

She made a little whimper in her throat and then Shane kissed her harder this time. Without the tenderness, but the fullness of passion that left her taut and aching. She could feel Shane’s hand moving under the hem of her shirt, sliding up her bare torso. This had gone too far, she needed to stop Shane, she needed to stop herself. She held onto Shane’s hand tightly and Shane moved slightly back, looking at her with eyes that were clouded with desire. “I can’t Shane…..I can’t..” The tension sizzled between them and finally Shane loosened her grip on her.