She-eeesh!

But, to his complete amazement, she kissed him full on the mouth, taking the breath out of him once again. She stopped for just enough time to take a breath, but not to say anything before she kissed him again, which, this time, he joined in, at first tentatively, still half expecting a painful sting in the tail, or somewhere else, and then enthusiastically.

Both needing to recover, they finally stopped, but once again the small but determined young woman kept the initiative by ‘shushing’ him as he attempted to speak and she put her right forefinger over his lips.