Certainly not the most comfortable position he'd ever held her in, but she relished it anyhow, maybe even more for being pinned, vulnerable, and yet completely covered and protected. With his chest pressed to her back, the two halves of her heart beat together, and they reached to each other, deepening the union between them.

"Worth waiting most of a lifetime for," she murmured, and meant not the orgasm but the man, the love, the moment.