In one moment, my mind was scattered in many directions – the warm water rinsing my hands, the stubborn grease on the plate, the soapy bubbles frothing where the sponge met the plate’s glossy surface. In the next, all I could feel was Ben’s hand wrapped around my neck. Squeezing and tightening as I tried to inhale and failed. My legs wobbled, and the edges of my vision began to grow dim. I felt another hand reaching into my shirt, finding my breast and ruthlessly pinching my nipple. A wave of pleasure coursed through me, and I would have moaned if I could.
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Two nights ago, he’d noticed the unease on my face as he rolled to the side, his cock sliding out of me. “What’s wrong?” He’d asked, and I had mustered the courage to break it to him. That recently, our sex had become so routine that I had started zoning out as we did the deed. That despite how much I loved him and how perfect our live-in relationship was in every other way, the slow deterioration from passionate love making that left mementos of our sex all over the apartment to a few minutes of lazy humping on the couch had left me dissatisfied. After a flash of hot shame, he quickly agreed, and we decided we would work on it together.