Here is Bella, catching up on her email, trying to come up with a reasonable mathematical approximation of the known abilities of evils versus arrows to guess how many dead people she can bring back with one of the latter, trying to come up with a prioritization scheme for putting her waiting list in order.
They do provide an interesting sort of blanket. (Under which to snuggle.)
Mm, yes. And they are soft and pleasant to the touch. Which goes well with all the snuggling.
The involved humans: also pleasant to the touch. (Bella is experimenting with this now.)
Don't tell anyone, but Ripper is a little bit ticklish around the ribs. It makes him wriggle charmingly.
Bella can keep a secret.
And exploit this knowledge all on her own.
That is cute. It is not enticing her to quit, not one bit. Also when he squirms like that it draws attention to his neck. Might his neck be kissable?
Snuggles and the careful mapping of neck with kisses.
And how about when he kisses her neck?
"Mmmm."
There, that's better. Back to melting Bella!
Bella is nnnnnot going to complain. She's going to sort of press herself against Ripper and make noises.
Being covered in flower petals, he discovers, is even better with his shirt off. They are so soft and nice! He begins to suspect that this is all part of a plan. But it's a pretty great plan, if so.
Bella is also developing plan-related suspicions, but she does not voice them. She is too busy enjoying neck-kisses. The collar of this dress kind of interferes but she's not sure she wants to take it off yet; she obliges it to turn down perhaps farther than the fabric would normally allow. With magic.
The flower tucked into her collar is low enough to be out of the way for now, at least. Ripper busies himself distributing kisses to all available neck locations.