When she uses his given name and not soldat or Bucky or anything else, that's when he breaks apart the most. It's so tender even if this sex is far from it and he digs his fingers into her hips tight enough to bruise even darker as he pumps into her one, two, three more times until he's coming on a long, low growl.

His heart is beating too fast and his breath is coming in shallow gasps. It had built up to this, he knows, but he's still overwhelmed at how much he's feeling right now. He feels as if his whole body is a live wire, a fuse ready to go at any moment.

"I love you, Natalia. You know that, don't you? How much I love you?"