In the process of pulling off her boots, Blue paused. Mostly because her fingers were trembling and she'd clumsily tied a knot in the laces of one. But also because the rumbled offer from across the room all of a sudden had her belly writhed into knots.

God, that was such a horrible idea...but she wanted to, how she wanted to! Memories flooded her eyes, remembered trysts back home, enveloped in the steaming water and Omega's long arms, the tile cool against her heated back and her skin tingling all over because nearly every inch of it had been treated to the wicked machinations of her mate's delicious mouth.

A minute shiver stole over her; the room was suddenly far too cool.

Blue finished with her boots by simply toeing them off abruptly, letting them fall unheeded on the thinly carpeted floor. Peeling off her socks and flinging them likewise, she snatched a forgotten pillow and locked her arms around it, squeezing her eyes closed.

She bit at her lip, striving hard to keep her voice level. "--I can't. " She loathed the words even as she said them. "--'s not fair."