Maybe he'd think about marks later. Right now, he was easing them into things, distracting her and trying to draw her mind away from its darkness. When she pushed up, he was starting to believe that the darkness in her mind was being locked away for the time being.

He matched her for both urgency and eagerness easily, not finding it difficult at all to forget their surroundings and what had happened. His own thoughts were getting fairly well shoved aside for more important matters.

Her being the most important matter. And knowing that meant that lowering his hips to just touch hers was second nature. Easy.