Embarrassment wasn't a familiar feeling to Kylo Ren, or even to Ben Solo, whose arrogance and intensity left little room for self-consciousness. Unfamiliar emotions were often twisted to anger, and he recalled a time when he might have silenced her in whatever way he could— humiliation or pain or worse.

Instead, he drew in a shuddering breath, his eyes blinking open to look at the ceiling above them, feeling the weight of her and the warmth of her mouth against his throat. He reached out to her through his mind, through their bond, and in response, he noticed the spark of her nerves, the way she squirmed hesitantly in his lap, the stutter of her pulse, but the more urgent curiosity and need growing within her.

"It's all right," he promised her. I feel it, too.