The sweet tension snaps and she breaks with it, shards of light behind her eyes and the sound of her own voice loud in her ears. She quakes with the strength of it, her hips still grinding slow circles, chasing the last strands of fire as they sweep through her from head to toe.

Gradually, it lets her go and she sighs, sagging against him, smiling as their sweat mingles. She presses her lips, soft as air, against his earlobe, drifting on the slow spiral back to earth.