"You could straddle me while I was sitting on the bed," he offers. "It would not be quite the same, but it would give you an opportunity to fetch those silks from Heka's hoard, and we could continue to claim them as our own treasures..."

He leans up, kisses the underside of her jaw, her chin, then her mouth before he nuzzles lightly and rests his forehead against hers.

"I know how riled up you get when you see my eyes matched with them."