Xanthippe would have liked to see him try for a kiss that wasn't intense, under these circumstances. But only rhetorically speaking, because actually, she didn't want anything but intensity from him right this second.

And he was providing it. The slight change of angle with her being hunched a little more forward to meet his lips now, and his added thrusts to meet hers from below were kind of a game changer.

And that meant she was muffling a desperate keening sort of a noise against his mouth, because she was suddenly mere seconds away from unraveling all over him.