Jean-Claude holds Anita's thighs and behind, not guiding her so much as steadying her while she takes her fill of him. Her passage is as wet as he's ever known it to be, and she draws him inside her again and again with ease. The urgency of it all adds a level to the pleasure that is surprising and intoxicating.

He catches Asher's eyes briefly, remembering shared pleasure like this many times long ago with Julianna, both like this and with their positions reversed. Times that Jean-Claude had believed would never come again.