Great chapter! So sensual, sexy, sweet and laden with emotions and mutual understanding. Like a warm bath and cookies & milk, mixed with hot sex ;)

You often seem to use metaphors and similes involving light and flames, and I quite liked these two:

The thoughts sparked once, as if they were going to light on fire, and then tumbled down and vanished in a shower of falling embers.

And then he felt two thoughts arc across his mind like falling stars and meet in a burst of splendor that birthed a new star entirely.