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"I will not risk your life," he said finally
"Nor would I expect you to Just don&039;t go into this with a no-quarter stance, OK?"
His expression was sour, as if he&039;d tasted so bad "I do this under protest"
"So noted" I swam backward a couple of feet, deterranted to us I allowed hts about what I&039;d like to do to hiinal question-why aren&039;t you soaking in here withto track Alec&039;s last-known lanced at his watch "I expect the answer to come in shortly Much as I would like to make love to you, Beloved, I must attend to this first"
"You knohat I say to that?" I asked, reaching beneath me to scoop up another handful of the white silicathat&039;s intended to irritate h
"No I say: inco wet, slipperyit at his head
Thenoise He stood stunned for a lare onfor a towel
"Oh, come on, Kristoff! Just come have a little dip withdown that you like I&039;ll help"
He just continued to wipe the mud off his face and upper part of his shirt
I scooped up another handful, and thought about pelting hiave up and ca a little fun That would defeat the purpose of hi a few hours of relaxation No, he just needed a little persuasion, so a little time away fro toward the stone steps that led out of our private lagoon to the lounge When I was close enough that the water was about waist-deep, I stood up
Kristoff, dabbing off the last s my bare breasts forward
"It&039;s too bad you can&039;t find a little tiit to slide slowly down , sweeping strokes
His eyes glittered with blue fire as he watchedto the spa brochure, this water is supposed to do all sorts of good things for you," I cooed, scooping up two handfuls, pouring them over my nohite breasts "They have all sorts of treates available in the water, for a variety of ailments"
His eyes widened, but he didn&039;t otherwiseforward toward the stairs until the water was atlittle swirls and circles in it as I spread it lower
I thought Kristoff&039;s eyes were going to bug right out of his head
I dipped ers even lower "But if you don&039;t want to experience the benefits and pleasures it is sure to give you, I&039;ll just have to enjoy it all byeverywhere I laughed when Kristoff, still fully clothed, stood before me with two handfuls of white mud
"It would be a shareed, his voice husky as he spread the mud on my breasts
"You still have your clothes on," I pointed out, then gasped as his head dipped and he took the tip of one breast into his mouth "Oh, dear God Kristoff!"
The last was in response to his hands, which had gone beneath the water and were busy with hidden parts ofsensitive flesh
You taste salty, he said, his ue was made of fire as it swirled and lapped
It&039;s the water It&039;s two-thirds seawater and one-third fresh I read that in the brochure Boo!
He sers suddenly dipped inside s suddenly sat up and took notice of hiht at his touch
You have too et my hands to strip the wet clothes off him, but my body was too involved in the sensations hisfor me to doon, and you do not It&039;s very wicked, is it not?
Definitely, but it also is keeping er joined the other two, his thu My brain didn&039;t knohether it should focus on the wonderful feeling his fingers were generating, the sensation of htly abrasive wet cloth of his shirt, or the fire that hismy shoulder
Perhaps I do not wish to be touched, he answered, his teeth nipping the flesh of my upper arm
I let him see a mental picture of what exactly I wanted to do to him He froze for a moment, then in a move that was literally too fast for , the dull thud of his shoes hitting the stone floor of the lounge the last thing I heard before he was back in my arms, his body, wet and war my entire attention
Where e? he said, then sers resumed their previous activity "Two can play at that, mister"
I had a handful of ently biting his shoulder as I let o even lower, down to his erection "Now, see? I knew this would benefit you Sparky is all happy"
"Sparky?" he asked, nipping my earlobe "I can live with a pet na body parts"
"Oh, really?" I asked, taking hi the territory "So you wouldn&039;t approve ofStallion&039;?"
His eyes crossed for aStallion works for ht so Nohy don&039;t you go sit over there on that bottoh out of the water so I won&039;t drohile I perfore"
The fire in his eyes kicked up a couple of notches "Did you read about that in the brochure, too?"
"No, that&039;s soht of on my own You look like you need a little personal attention Sit"
An oddly obstinate look crossed his face "I prefer to stand It is you ill receive the personal attention"
His hands slid up o any farther "I want to give you pleasure, Kristoff"
"As I do you" His eyes lightened a s to realize meant he was annoyed
We stared at each other for a few seconds
"I can&039;t believe we&039;re having an arguets to do what first," I said
"Neither can I"
A fewpassed, while we both waited for the other person to give in
"One of us is going to have to let the other one have her way," I pointed out
"Yes, you will"
I narrowed et your way an awful lot I think you&039;ve used up all of your bossy points Therefore, you will sit and I will give you a blow job so incredible, you won&039;t be able to think straight"
He stood up a bit straighter All of hi into es so carnal, I&039;m surprised the water around us didn&039;t start to boil "You are my Beloved You will bend over that rock and let me make love to you in such a ht You will also walk funny for a week"
My jaw dropped at his pseudothreat "Oh! That is so so"
"Truthful?" he asked ses like that Well Two can play at that gaht of the most erotic acts I could perform upon his body
His Adam&039;s apple bobbed a couple of times, and when he spoke, his voice was hoarse "I did not include ! Or ice cubes If anyone is being underhanded, it&039;s you"
I s detail on a plan to use not only slick, warhis body until he exploded with pleasure
"Exploded?" he said, his eyes as black as ht
"You heard me, buster"
He trembled with strain for a ain "This is a waste of time Submit to me so that I may make you walk funny, and then you can explodemy hands down on the water "I want to do this for you!"
"No more so than I want to provide pleasure for you," he said, still obstinate
"Argh!" I yelled, thinking furiously, but the iover to hiainst his wet, slick chest
"Exceedingly so," he answered, his head dipping to my neck He breathed on the spot that never failed to send all ly overtiht?"
"That would seeh"
"You, sir, are a bully, and nothing but a bully," I said, poking er into his chest I stopped, eyed the chest, then spreadthe lovely ful of breath "What the hell You go first; then it&039;ll be reed" He spun htly forward so I had to catch oon If you have the strength after I&039;ht
"I heard that!" I said, but before I could protest any dirty tricks, all sane thought left my head as his teeth pierced the flesh of my shoulder at the sa around us, the sensation of bone-deep satisfaction that filled Kristoff and spilled out intotension that wound insidewith a million other sensations, threatened to overload my senses as I clutched the sharp lava rocks But it was theof souls as he both took life fro All the dark places inside him, all the inky despair, and pain, and shadows of loneliness that still remained were obliterated at that mo, filling hiue swirled a path of flaave hi I had
"I love you," I cried as he spun s around hi his shoulders as his hips flexed with short, forceful thrusts, the rowled deep in his chest, a prie My ave in to his own cliat his hips, both our bodies treave his lower lip one last fond little nibble, then released it and looked down at hi with our co with heat hotter than any fire, and on the edges of his adorable lips was the beginning of a sant, and cos drop, aware that he could feel how theto walk funny But I&039;d like to point out that you did a fair bit of exploding, too"
"Agreed Where did you learn to do that?"
"Do what?" I asked, wondering if he thought A techniques
"When you gripped lared when he snickered The only thing that saved him from another faceful of mud was the fact that he scooped e
"That, Boo, is the result of years of Kegeling Myso that when I was an old lady I wouldn&039;t have to wear bladder pants like ranny"
"That may be the result of years of intiorous in the past"
I grinned over the towel I was using to dry myself off "Just so I know-are we thuor?"
"Thu down at himself ruefully Even quiescent, he was still ih if you keep it up, you won&039;t be the only one walking funny"
An unexpected sense of peace and happiness filled our re hours at the spa
"How did your parents h wits to kick-start ain I lay draped across Kristoff as he lounged on a plush red curved sofa, clad in one of the spa&039;s thick bathrobes Kristoff was clad only in me, a fact I much appreciated as I traced the lines of muscles in his chest and upper arm He was still too skinny forout nicely with regularshapes on the outside of one of hs, the touch casual, but so sweetly intimate it made my eyes burn for a ave birth to you and raised you?"
An odd sense of withdrawal touchedthe muscle of his biceps and looked up at hi at me with suspicion
"Why do you want to know about my parents?"
"Why shouldn&039;t I want to know about theether for the rest of time, Kristoff I&039;d like to knowabout your parents you don&039;t want to talk about?"
He sensedhis ee to hi on the blade of a razor "I&039;ve told you about my "
"I&039;m sorry That must have been hard for your mom Were there any kids other than you and Andreas?"
He shook his head, and once again I felt a spike of awareness inside hi me closely as he spoke "No He was born later than htly, continuing to stroke his ar all the while what it was about his parents that had him so keyed up "How much older are you?"
"Twenty-two years"
"Really? Wow That&039;s quite a difference" I was silent for a"You said you were born human How did you come to be a vampire?"
"I was cursed to it"
"Cursed? Someone can do that?"
"It takes a demon lord, but yes, you can make a Dark One" His voice was suddenly flinty hard "Why are you questioninghs "What is it that bothers you soabout your past?"
"Why do you care how I becaen
I pointed a finger at hihten your eyes atyou about your origins other than curiosity about you It may have escaped your notice, but I just announced to you that I&039;m in love with you"
"It didn&039;t escapean honestwas mutual "I&039;s about them, what they like and what they don&039;t like, and how their childhood was, that sort of thing And you&039;re just going to have to deal with a whole lot of curiosity about Dark Ones, because up until two o, I didn&039;t believe varip he had on s "I am interested in you, too"
"Good I&039;ll tell you all about ht noant to knohat happened that had you ending up a vampire"
He was silent for a e Someone I knew injured another person"
"Someone you knew?" I asked, puzzled why he would be the victihter at that,open in astonishment for a moment "Your wife? You were married before ht ere getting married, so it counts"
"We are really married, and yes, I wasyou&039;re jealous My first wife is long dead"
There was no pretense about the quick spurt of jealousy that riddled nored the e a quick calculation in my head "You were married when you were seventeen?"
"Yes It was a reasonable age for e then I was apprenticed to a cobbler, and wed his daughter"
A question rose up on ht it, tried to keep o-ahead without my permission "Did you love her?"
He looked somewhat startled by the question "I wanted to bed her"
"Lust and love aren&039;t the sa," I pointed out
"No, they aren&039;t" He was silent for a moment "I suppose I loved her She was pretty and we enjoyed each other in bed"
"Oh, that really does ood," I said somewhat acidly
The corner of his lip twitched "I enjoy you in bed, too"
"Not even re to have to provide in order to erase theit off with another wonani as you provide the reassurances later, preferably in tangible for was back in his mind "Yes A wo in a cart went mad and ran the woman down, but her companion would not listen He killed Ruth, and because I was her husband, and thus must suffer as he suffered, invoked a demon lord to cursemy hand over his heart at the sensation of pain deep inside hiine what you experienced trying to cope with your own tragedy as well as suddenly finding yourself soulless and a vahtened "It was not pleasant My mother was furious when she found out, and traveled all over the country looking for help, but she was shunned by the Dark Ones she , she finally found one ould talk to her He told her there was no hope for me other than a Beloved, but neither of us really believed I&039;d find one" A wistful note entered his voice "I would have liked my mother to know that I did, in fact, find you"
"She knows," I said, leaning forward to kiss him "Just because she&039;s dead doesn&039;t , but his fingers were back to stroking patterns on hs
"How did Andreas come about?"
"The Dark One who consented to speak with my mother is his father" His lips twisted with a wry smile "My mother was quite attractive, and he always had an eye for wo he shares with his son"
"Andreas is a ladies&039;on the irony to be found in life "I&039;ll re a bastard to you if we found his Beloved"
"I doubt it" Kristoff liftedto pull on a pair of pants "Most Dark Ones don&039;t find their Beloveds It&039;s not as if you can order one up"
I puzzled over Kristoff&039;s unease and reluctance to speak of his past during the subsequent hours, even onto the plane that sent us winging back to the United States Part of it could be attributed to the h to recognize that I was not yet coh with our relationship to discuss his past loves, which was one reason why he shunned the iven that, there was so that ht inside hi to like