by Marilyn Lee
She turned to face him, and they lay on their sides holding each other.
He caressed her and whispered to her softly until she drifted to sleep. Her certainty that she had hurt Aleksander resulted in restless slumber.
* * * * *
When Erin woke, even before she opened her eyes, she knew she was no longer in that magical corner of the Blue Desert she had once thought of as theirs. Dismissing a jolt of disappointment, she opened her eyes. They were back in the wooded area near the house where the pool party had been hosted. More importantly, she was still in his arms. She frowned. So why did thoughts of Aleksander gnaw at the edge of her conscience, clouding her joy with guilt?
He lifted her to her feet. Taking her hand in his, he moved through the woods. “Don’t think about him.”
“I don’t want to, but I think I hurt him.”
He stopped near a huge tree and looked down at her. His dark eyes glinted. He spoke in a cool, unsympathetic voice. “He’ll survive. He always manages to survive—even if it’s at someone else’s expense.”
The bitterness she heard in his voice disturbed her. She had never thought of Aleksander as thoughtless or selfish.
“You don’t know him as I do.” He sighed and shook his head. “But we don’t have time to talk about him.” He caressed her breasts. “I need you again.”
She nodded, forcing thoughts of Aleksander from her mind with difficulty. “I need you too.”
He drew her to her feet. “Do you remember our first time together?”
She bit her lip, struggling to recall still-hidden memories. Memories of time spent with him conflated with those spent with Aleksander. “I’m not sure,” she admitted.
He pressed his right hand against her breasts with his fingers spread. “Remember,” he whispered softly.
And she did.
Her thoughts traveled back through time to a West African jungle night long ago. She had sneaked away from her village to meet him. Overcome with pent-up need, he had positioned her against the trunk of a huge tree. She had gasped and shuddered with a pain tinged with sweetness when she became his woman while a sudden storm raged around them. Afterward, he’d covered her tearstained cheeks with tender kisses and whispered of eternal love and devotion. She had basked in the afterglow and wrapped her arms around his neck when he lifted her off her feet and carried her deeper into the jungle to the hut where he took her again.
“Now do you remember our first time together?”
She opened her eyes and nodded. “Yes.”
He caressed her cheek. “We often made love standing up.”
As had she and Aleksander. Her cheeks burned with guilt at her inability to keep thoughts of Aleksander from invading her precious time with him.
“Let’s enjoy each other like that again.”
“Yes. Yes.”
Leading her over to a tall tree, he pressed her gently against it. He stared down at her. “Is this position uncomfortable?”
His lovemaking would atone for any slight discomfort. “It’s bearable.”
“You’re sure? The tree is rough and—”
“And I’m with you.”
He sucked in a breath. “And that matters? It still matters?”
“Yes.” She stroked her hands down his abs.
He fondled her mound, his fingers parting her folds. “You’re moist and hot.”
“I’ll always be that way for you,” she whispered.
He sighed. “If it could only be so.”
She ground herself against his palm. “Why can’t it?”
“Because he won’t allow it.”
She moistened her lips, certain the he in question was Aleksander. After all, hadn’t he interrupted their time together once already? “Let’s not waste our time together thinking about him.” She quickly dismissed the sense of betrayal she felt voicing the words.
“No. We have no time to waste.” He brushed his mouth over her right breast, allowing his tongue to flick against her nipple.
Erin moaned, cupping her hands over the back of his head. “Hmm.”
He took the nipple between his lips. He held her hips as he swirled his tongue along her hardened nipple. He whispered soft, warm sounds, words directly into her mind. “I love you. I love you, my sheenea. Mine. Only mine.”
She luxuriated in the words and the power they held over her emotions. He loved her and wanted her to be his alone. And yet Aleksander wanted the same thing.
“There’s no time to think of him. Think only of us, my love.”
“Only of us,” she echoed, while a small rebellious inner voice whispered it wanted only Aleksander. Only him.
He trailed his lips across her body to kiss her breasts.
“Oh…yes…yes.”
He slipped his hands down her body to cup over her ass. His caressing fingers sent waves of need pulsating down her body.
“Oh…yes.”
He wrapped his arms around her waist and ground his erect shaft against her.
She shuddered, eager to feel him filling every inch of her pussy. “Oh…yes…please.”
“Show me how much you want this and me, my love. Show me the level of your passion and need…it will have to sustain me for a very long time.”
She parted her legs and rotated her butt against the rough bark of the tree trunk.
Keeping his lips against her breasts, he slipped a finger inside her.
Tanginika rocked herself against his fingers.
He removed his fingers, easing his hips forward.
She gasped as he slowly sank his cock into her. So nice. She licked her lips and gripped his hips. “I need more.” She pulled him closer.
When he removed his mouth and tongue from her breast, she felt a strange but not unpleasant tingling there. She didn’t have time to wonder about it, because he finally sank balls deep into her.
She curled her fingers in his tight ass, closing her eyes to more fully savor the sensations coursing through her. “Yes. Oh, yes.”
He withdrew most of his hot, hard shaft before quickly thrusting back into her.
Erin shivered with pleasure. “Yes,” she whispered. “More…deeper…harder…please.”
He pressed his palms against the trunk of the tree.
She ground her hips against his.
He shuddered against her. “My love…mine.”
“Yours.”
She lifted her chin and parted her lips.
Instead of kissing her, he bent his head to brush his lips against her neck.
Inexplicably, the feel of his lips and teeth there invoked thoughts of Aleksander.
Determined to drive thoughts of him away for good, Tanginika ground her hips against his in a slow, hungry movement.
In response, he sank his teeth into the side of her neck.
A violent clap of thunder and a flash of lightning disturbed the stillness of the late afternoon.
Ignoring it and the implications of Aleksander’s wrath, she slipped her hands up his back to cup over his head, shivering with delight as he fucked her.
The storm intensified, lightning striking within inches of them. Chilling rain lashed them and the tree. Branches and leaves rained down on them.
Leave us in peace, Aleksander. Please.
“Ignore him, sheenea.”
Channeling her desire and need for the handsome prince she’d wanted for so long, Tanginika forced thoughts of Aleksander from her mind and shut out the raging storm. He was angry, but he would control his anger if only out of fear of hurting Erin.
Tanginika and her lover shared a hot, lustful, yet emotionally satisfying standing fuck. Secure in the knowledge of his love and affection, she even took solace in the thunder and lightning surrounding them.
The physical aspect of their relationship was so primal and powerful that just as she came, the tremors in his body signaled the closeness of his own release. They climaxed within seconds of each other.
After they stopped coming, he removed his t
eeth from her neck. Both their knees buckled, his cock popped out of her, and they sank weakly to the ground. He drew her into his arms, projecting soft words of love directly into her mind.
Smiling at the sweetness of the endearments, she cuddled close, closing her eyes. She stroked her hand over his chest, taking comfort in the now-softly falling rain. “I never stopped loving you.”
He rolled onto his back, lifting her body on top of his. “It was all worth it for these few hours, which I will always cherish, my sheenea. When we’re separated again, remember and cherish this afternoon as I will.”
“I’m going to stay with you forever,” she promised.
He stroked her back.
She sighed with pleasure and drifted into the deep sleep of a sated lover.
Chapter Ten
She woke to the feel of warm, tender lips caressing hers, big hands cupping her breasts.
Aleksander. He’s forgiven her and returned.
She opened her eyes. The smile forming on her lips froze. It wasn’t Aleksander. She was back in the woods with him. Where was Aleksander, and had he forgiven her?
He lifted his head and smiled down at her. “You’re awake at last.”
She nodded.
“Are you still happy to be with me?”
She bit her lip. “I…yes.”
He frowned, his hand stilling on her breasts. “You don’t sound certain.”
How could she be when her waking thoughts had been of Aleksander? “I could stay here with you forever,” she said quickly.
He slid a hand up from her breast to touch her cheek. “If only we had more time together.”
“What do you mean?” She linked her arms around his neck. “We can have as much time…” She quickly dismissed a guilty thought of Aleksander. “We can have as much time together as we like.”
He shook his head. “If only that were true, but it’s not. The time he’ll allow us together is going to be very brief.”
She frowned. “If you’re talking about Alek—”
“Who else would begrudge us time together and try to keep us apart?”
She blinked at the vitriol she heard in his voice. “You sound as if you hate him.”
“How could I not when he’s responsible for our separation? I’m sure he’s had nothing kind to say about me.”
She suppressed the urge to push his hand away as she shook her head. “No. He’s never said anything unkind about you.”
He narrowed his gaze. “Are you defending him?”
“No!” Yes. “I’m just saying he’s never said anything unkind about you.”
“That’s because he’s been too busy pursuing pleasure with you when we’ve both known from the moment we saw you that you were mine. He’s done everything in his power to keep us apart.”
“No. He hasn’t. He insisted I come here to meet you again.”
“And you believed he really wanted you to come?”
“Yes.”
He compressed his lips. “You shouldn’t. He’ll say and do anything to keep us apart.”
“I don’t think that’s true.” She shook her head. “I know it’s not true. I… He insisted I come.” When she hadn’t wanted to.
“Of course it is!” He smiled suddenly. “Let’s not waste our time discussing him. Let’s just make the most of the time we have.”
She stifled a sense of unease and nodded.
He unlinked her arms and rose, lifting his gaze to the sky.
She sat up, staring at him.
His lips didn’t move, but she knew he and Aleksander communicated. He swore suddenly, shaking his head angrily.
She frowned. “What is it? What’s wrong?”
“Never mind.” He reached down to draw her to her feet. “Walk with me.”
She slipped her hand in his. “Anywhere.”
She watched his Adam’s apple bob. “The time when that would have been possible is long past, but I—”
“Why? What’s wrong?” She leaned against him. “How can anything be wrong now that we’re together again at last?”
He tilted his head, staring upward.
The storm had finally abated. She glanced up. The trees were tall with branches that nearly touched each other high above in the sky. Through them, the last of daylight filtered down. “Aleksander’s back?”
“He never left.”
She sucked in a breath, uncertain how she felt about Aleksander having watched them make love. “What does he want? What is he saying?”
He shrugged. “It doesn’t matter.” He caressed her cheek. “I just want to enjoy your timeless beauty.”
“Such talk makes me feel beautiful, desired, cherished, and happy.”
“You are all those things.” He cradled her hand in his. They walked in silence for a short time before they came upon a small pond.
She stared into the water. A vague memory of a larger body of almost silver water, which was located at the base of a beautiful waterfall, teased her. She frowned. What were the falls called?
He turned her to face him. “Let’s swim.”
She nodded. “Okay.”
They removed their bathing suits and slipped into the cool water.
They swam side by side in silence. After a leisurely few laps together, she swam to the edge of the pond, sprawling on her stomach. Her legs were in the water, her upper body on the ground beyond the pond, her butt exposed, her pussy wet.
She glanced over her shoulder.
He trod water a few feet behind her.
He was so handsome and sexy with his dark skin glistening with water. She smiled, moistening her top lip with the tip of her tongue. “I need you.”
“I’m yours, my sheenea. I’ve always been yours.”
“And I’ve been yours.”
He continued to tread water. “Except for the time when you were so happily and contentedly his?”
When had she ever belonged to Aleksander? “I…it only happened once…”
“No, my love. It happened far more than once.” He sighed. “But now is not the time to worry about a past that is fast encroaching on our nonexistent future together.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Unfortunately there’s no time to explain.” He moved behind her and sank below the water.
She lay against the bank, closing her eyes.
He slid his hands along the insides of her thighs.
“Hmmm. That feels so nice. You feel so nice. Being with you again feels so right.”
His mouth followed the path made by his hands. He nibbled at her pussy lips.
Oh. So very, very nice. She parted her legs. “Please…”
He slid his tongue along her slit.
She shivered, pushing herself against his mouth. “Oh…yes. Yes…more…”
He lapped at her wet folds with a maddening slowness before he finally started to eat her. The combination of his mouth, tongue, and the water gently lapping at her combined to send her careening out of control to a quick, moaning release. He continued to kiss and lick her through her climax.
While she enjoyed the last blissful moments of her orgasm, he rose.
She felt his cock, hard and wet against her ass. She reached back to grab his hip. “Take me. I’m yours.”
He lay over her on the bank, his body stretched against her back.
His cock slid between her legs.
She bit her lip. There was no substitute for the delight of a long, thick shaft wielded by a male she adored about to slide deep inside her.
She ground her rear against his groin, loving the feel of his cock. “Now it’s my turn to make you come,” she told him.
He pressed warm kisses against her nape. “I need you, my lovely one. I always need you.”
“Take me…make me yours again.”
Holding her by the hips, he entered her.
She caught her breath.
He slowly sank his cock into her still-quaking channel until she felt his groin pressed against h
er ass.
“Oh…yes. Let me feel every inch of you inside me.”
Cupping his hands over her breasts, he bit and licked her neck.
Feeling his teeth pierce the side of her neck, she teetered on the brink of ecstasy and lost a part of herself. He was ingesting her blood again, and she was about to come. “Yes. Yes. Love me. Drink my blood. Consume me.”
“I do love you, my sheenea. I always have and I always will. Though he’ll never allow us another chance like this, you’ll know that I’ll always love you. One day you’ll know what I gave up for the opportunity to come love you for just a moment in time. And you’ll know he’ll never love you as deeply as I do. No matter what he says, I’ll always love you more.”
She frowned. “No. It can’t be just a moment in time. I can’t lose you again. Without you there’s no reason to go on. There’s no one…” She paused, dismissed an urgent thought of Aleksander with difficulty, and went on. “I’m yours for as long as you want me. Take me. Brand me…as you did so long ago.”
Even as she told herself the words made no sense, they spoke to a gradually awakening part of her. She wanted and needed him, and yet thoughts and desires of Aleksander continued to plague her. She thrust them away. “I’m yours,” she promised. “No matter what he says or does. Take me.”
He withdrew from her, removing his teeth from her neck.
She pushed her hips back, moaning softly as he slid deep inside her. She closed her eyes. “Yes…yes…”
He rocked his hips against her ass. “My love…my beautiful love.”
She reached back to clutch at him.
He pressed her against the bank of the pond and slipped his cock in and out of her with an exquisite, leisurely expertise that made her stomach muscles ripple.
She ground her ass against his groin, tightening her internal muscles around his thick length.
Along with the pleasure that swelled inside her, she experienced a wonderful sense of being with a man who loved her deeply.
“I do love you deeply.”
“I love you too.”
With him making mental love to her, they shared one of the longest, tender fucks she’d ever enjoyed. She lost track of the number of times he brought her to the edge of orgasm before his denial of release created a painful need in her.
