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Kimberly spent two hours puttering around, basically miserable. She'd considered leaving and going back to her apartment, but she'd need to come back almost as soon as she left to avoid losing her mind to Demorelle's special influence. She cleaned up the mess from their last encounter; she'd washed and plugged in the vibrator to charge, and wiped up the various fluids (although there were always less of those than Kimberly expected. Even when they were on a bed there was rarely much of a wet spot.)
As she'd suspected, three of the buttons on her blouse were gone, and the rings holding her bra straps had ripped off. Her panties had torn at both the crotch and the band and gave Kimberly a sobering reminder of how strong Demorelle actually was; she'd been wearing relatively new, full coverage cotton panties, not thin lacy ones that were easy to shred by accident.
She ate some leftovers from the fridge when she received no response from Demorelle about dinner. Almost three hours since the encounter she was surprised she wasn't in worse shape. She was definitely hornier than made sense for a few hours after a fight with her girlfriend, but nowhere near what she'd experienced before being at work. She briefly considered it as a solution to the problem; if she and Demorelle just hate-fucked before she went to work, her own misery and the vibrator might get her through the day without Demorelle.
However while that
might
work it was risky, and she didn't want to try that approach. She wasn't one of those people that reveled in misery, particularly her own. She needed to fix this.
She'd been walking around naked most of the evening; she and Demorelle spent so much time that first day fucking she'd gotten used to it, and at the very least going most of the time without a bra was so liberating for her. But she wanted clothes so Demorelle knew she wasn't simply there for a quickie to take the edge off. However, she did put on a pair of white, tanga-style panties cut so low they barely came up over her slit, and she left off her bra; If things went well, she could hope for some nice make-up sex. Finally she put on a soft robe and padded over to Demorelle's door and knocked.
"I'm surprised you held out this long. Just stand by the door, I'll take care of it from here."
"No!" Kimberly said quickly, "Come on Demorelle, we need to talk. I'm an adult and you're...well you've been around long enough to know this is silly. Sulking isn't going to help either of us."
There was silence from within but then the door popped open. In any other case Kimberly would have pushed open the door to see Demorelle walking back toward the bed, but her hyper-exotic lover hadn't gotten out of bed at all and still lay facing the glass wall in her bedroom. She did see a slight tremor in the covers that betrayed the movement of the tentacle Kimberly thought had actually opened the door. She walked over and climbed into bed slowly, watching for any sign Demorelle was going to lash out. She slid forward and put a hand on Demorelle's shoulder, then risked spooning her. Kimberly being the "big spoon" was somewhat silly; with their height difference, if she put her chin over Demorelle's shoulder, Demorelle's waist was partway down her thighs, but it felt right.
Demorelle seemed to have her tentacles simply trailing under the covers. Kimberly ended up on top of at least one, but they didn't react. The two lay like that for a while, Kimberly lovingly rubbing Demorelle's shoulder and trying to ignore the sensations of her nipples rubbing against the cloth of her robe as it pressed against her lover's back.
"I'm sorry if I upset you," Kimberly said.
Demorelle shrugged, and Kimberly pressed harder. "No, don't do that. You have feelings. You like to pretend you're just a predatory monster, but I know you're more than that."
There was no response from Demorelle for a while. "Well
I
have feelings," Kimberly said, "And I'm sad. I don't like that we're fighting. The past few days have been wonderful. I want to keep going like that."
"Then why did you just demand me?" Demorelle whispered.
Kimberly thought for a moment, despite wanting to shout. "It's scary, Elle," she said, "At the edge, when the...whatever it is starts to get bad. I'm afraid I'm going to cross some threshold and my mind will break, and then I'll just be a gibbering slut. I don't want to lose my mind. I don't want to lose you."
Kimberly wrapped her arms around her lover and held tight. "I love the teasing, and I love the playfulness. But...when I'm on the edge like that, it's scary."
Demorelle finally turned around. Her tentacles came alive and pushed Demorelle back slightly, then wrapped around both of them. Kimberly felt a thrill in her heart; this was usually how they cuddled when they weren't having sex. But she sobered a bit when she saw Demorelle's face. Though subtle, Kimberly could recognize a conflicted and worried expression.
"Do...do you
want
me that way?" Kimberly asked, quiet and a little afraid.
"I am...
used
to that," Demorelle said, "But...I do not want it more than I want this. You...surprised me. Most of the women I've been with are either fearfully resisting me or desperately begging for my attention. I haven't had someone order me to do something for a long time."
Kimberly leaned forward and kissed her gently and Demorelle returned the kiss. "Look," Kimberly said, "I think the vibrator solution works. I obviously didn't charge it enough. But chances are when I come home every day I'm going to be desperate for you. Can you...do you know if I
can
come back? Like, is there a point of no return where I'm just...nothing except a pile of horniness forever?"