Soft Touches of Desire: "cat novel"

cat novel begins at 3:17 a.m. in a hotel suite. City glow through half-open blinds stripes her restless body. She can’t sleep, so cat novel becomes her lullaby. Slow, almost lazy circles over silk panties gradually soak the fabric dark. In cat novel, she pushes them aside instead of removing them—impatient, perfect. Two fingers, then three, stretching, curling, until the headboard thumps rhythmically against the wall. When she finally comes in cat novel, it’s with a muffled scream into the pillow, whole body shaking so hard the mattress springs sing. Dawn finds her asleep in tangled sheets, panties still twisted to the side—proof that cat novel worked better than any sleeping pill.