Shannon could tell that Eli was moving closer and tried to shift his leg up and around to make pressing together easier. When his hand was moved, he stuttered, faltered momentarily, and tried to move his hand further up to Eli's abdomen where he could lay it flat instead. It wasn't that he wanted to deny Eli reacting to him, but he simply didn't know how to react in turn — his mind was still rather firmly entrenched with the female body where arousal was concerned. Emotional reactions didn't quite sink in to the physical ones and and it was an automatic reaction to shy away.

That didn't stop him from realizing, even vaguely, what he was doing and he made apologetic noises without pulling away to disrupt the moment further. His head still wasn't in the game and wouldn't be for quite a while as long as there was such intense fondling going on at both ends.