Her head spun to me and she quickly added, "I don't mean that to sound as if you're not desirable! It's just……"
"I know what you meant." I said cutting in gently.
"Zora I'll never do anything to disappoint the confidence that you've put in me as a man of character. I may make you mad from time to time, but I'll never betray your trust."
"I know." She said with feeling.
There was a question that needed to be asked, "Going along with the childhood situations that you mentioned I need to ask if you were abused as well? I only ask that because I don't want to re-create bad memories for you in terms of how we take are relationship into a more intimate level."
"No I wasn't. You'll be the first man that I've ever been with."
I glanced over to her and lifted my hand up to her face. I stroked a finger down her cheek and over to her lower lip, which I caressed slowly, "It will be a first for both of us then."
She swallowed and her lips moved beneath my finger as she said, "I'm honored."
I blinked. It was an unbelievable feeling to experience the unbelievable intimacy that I already shared with this woman past any realm of fleshly desire.
I refocused on my driving. I'd never had a harder time managing to keep a vehicle within the lines not to mention the speed limit.
Zora shifted in her seat and before I knew it she was sitting up against me.
I swallowed and glanced to her face which was very near only to hear her say, "I like being with you. Would you put your arm around me?"
My one arm came away from the steering wheel and folded around her shoulders, until my hand rested against her far side. The feel of her trustingly within the enclosure of my arm was a new emotional high in my life. The feel of her was amazing, but it was the knowledge that she liked being where she was that made me never want this moment to stop.
Her head was tilted back as it rested against my shoulder and she was smiling at me.
I wished I could smile back at her for truly she had made me happy, but I just felt to overcome by her.
I searched for something to say. Something of value to return in exchange for what she was giving me.
Clearing my throat of the husky emotion I was infused with I said "We should be in the city by early evening. We can have a nice dinner and then I've procured an invitation to a grand charity ball being held for a noble cause. There will be lots of dancing involved. Does that sound of interest to you?"