"Okay," he gets out, moans drowned out by her mouth as his thumb gently strokes over the back of her hand in sharp contrast to the obscene way he kisses her back. When he gets to thinking about how long it's really been -- since they've been intimate -- it makes him feel lacking; and like he has something to prove. He knows Pepper doesn't feel that way, but with how mixed up he's been that part (arguably the most important part) never really entered the equation. "Because if you want a different one..."

Tony's hand moves right up the inside of her thigh, gently stroking between her legs through her panties. God how he's missed this. Missed her, this way.