More often than not, Jim finds attempts at intimacy an active turn-off. He prefers it when it's rough and raw, bodies taking what they need of each other. He likes Tess more than any random stranger, but he doesn't want her thinking she knows how to get to him either.

Anyway, she's hot like this. Working for her own pleasure, pleasing herself on him. It gets him going the way soft and slow didn't, his grip on her gets tighter, his fingertips slipping over her clit with the sort of relentless movement that's determined to bring her off.