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"I&039;ve never been on the beach at night," Rachel adh She leaned back in the sand as the war Etienne had taken her out to show her the night Their first jaunt had been a night walk in the woods They&039;d walked hand in hand, listening to the sounds of anih, Rachel hadn&039;t had any trouble navigating the uneven path beaten into the dirt It see--she had been able to see alht Etienne&039;s eyes shone silver in the night, or perhaps they siht, so she asked if her own eyes were glowing Etienne smiled and nodded, and Rachel contemplated that She was now a nocturnal ani her as the idea had once done, the thought gave Rachel an odd surge of confidence As a woht, she was rather used to being threatened by any number of perverted sickos out there She had spentfro, ever alert for trouble Now she was experiencing the first tastes of her new strength and abilities
Her vision wasn&039;t the only thing iht they had climbed and run and played in the woods, and she had learned that her body was stronger and faster than ever Much stronger Inhued that She hadn&039;t bothered to try to figure it out She was enjoying it too o for a swilanced over the deserted beach and the water reflecting the ht While yesterday was unseasonably chill, tonight arht swiht any swiain They had it all to the the day The few policeed partiers who had already arrived and been sent away by Etienne Really, she supposed, a swimsuit wasn&039;t absolutely necessary Etienne had already seen her naked Several times
Rather than answer his question verbally, Rachel tossed a wicked grin Etienne&039;s way Reaching for the hem of her T-shirt with both hands, she raised it up and over her head
"Beautiful," Etienne murmured as her breasts were bared
His suddenly serious expression h, and she tossed her T-shirt in his lap as she got to her feet She hadn&039;t bothered with a bra tonight Actually, she didn&039;t wear them much at all anymore There was no need Her breasts were fir the to save a ton ofbefore him, Rachel unsnapped her jeans and shimmied out of them She felt herself blush as she did so, but he had seen her naked before, and besides, she are that her body was noless It was really rather freeing Well,undressing without blushing
A featherlight caress up her calfheatedly up at her, trailing his fingers lightly along the sensitive skin of her inner leg If she gave hi around on the sand withinlike animals--but he was the one who had mentioned a swihtly out of his reach and, leaving hi their picnic basket, Rachel turned away to jog lightly to the water&039;s edge
Her first step into the water was a bit of a shock While the night arm, the water was cold It closed around her foot, but she barely let that slow her down Rachel continued determinedly forward for several steps until the water reached her waist, then raised her hands and dived under the rounded waves She swam underwater for what seemed an impossible time, surprised by the fact that she could When she finally surfaced, it wasn&039;t out of a need for air soshe had a lot more questions to ask Bastien about the effects of nanos, Rachel swiveled in the water She stopped treading water and nearly sank under the surface upon seeing how far she was froer and faster didn&039;t begin to describe her new state Rachel hadn&039;t been swi very hard, but she had propelled herself an incredible distance
A dark shape broke the surface of the lake on her right, and Rachel smiled as Etienne appeared His hair was slicked close to his head, his eyes again aglow in the ht He swalanced down at herself Her breasts were half-revealed above the water, and the silver ave her skin a pearlescent sheen Etienne shifted closer, reaching out to catch her hand and draw her forward As her breasts brushed his chest, he rolled onto his back, taking her with hi chest with her lower body in the water beside hi them back toward land
Rachel slid her ar halfheartedly to aid At last, Etienne stopped and stood The water reached to just above her breasts as Rachel also stood, but she barely noticed before he pulled her into his arly and lifted her face as he clais brush his under the water, then wrapped them around his hips as she twined her arainst hi with awareness She was conscious of several sensations: the night air now slightly chill on her damp skin; the water itself, warm and silky around her now that she had adjusted to the temperature; his body hot everywhere it touched hers; her passion feverish as it built inside her
They had made love several times now, each time more explosive and better than the last, so the rush of excite She had felt like this before--this hunger for him, this pleasure in him, this desire--but this encounter would be even better Their minds opened to each other, and his desires joined hers The first rush was al Rachel swoon
She heard the half-growl, half-purr that erupted from Etienne&039;s throat as she slid her hands into his hair and scraped her nails across his scalp She responded with one of her own as the sensations echoed inside her The feeling was so enjoyable, she did it again, then again, before finally sliding her hands down his neck and running her nails over his upper back and shoulders Rachel had never known that such a simple action could be so erotic, but her own back muscles rippled in sy over her body at the sa the curve of her hip, cupping her bottos The combination of their caresses and pleasures quickly had Rachel tre Etienne had stripped off his clothes on the beach, and she could feel his erection, hard and excited, where it was trapped between their bodies Rachel tightened her legs around hiainst hie to cli every time they had made love, and the way she had fainted after each, Rachel wanted desperately to break their kiss and suggest they move back to the blanket--but it see the kiss seemed impossible It was as if she needed it to breathe
"Rachel" Her na her and not speaking It took her amentally; that with their minds fevered and wide open, they needn&039;t speak to cohed and tried to answer mentally that she wanted hie She had no idea if she had attained the ability yet Still, she didn&039;t repeat the thought aloud when he broke the kiss and propelled her backward through the water Rachel felt sure he was taking her to the blanket, but he stopped while still in the water and urged her up to the surface She floated on her back with her knees bent He grasped her legs and shocked her by suddenly pulling them wide open
Rachel nearly sank under the water in surprise, so she dropped her hands to keep herself afloat In the end, she didn&039;t have to paddle; her arms hit sand almost at once and she realized Etienne had h that she could hold her upper body up out of the water He shifted between her legs and bent his head to caress her hot flesh with his tongue
Rachel jerked, her feet shooting upward and splashing water everywhere as he set to work Her h myriad emotions--shock, embarrassment, and the brief mad desire to scoot away froh her in rapid order, but then pleasure took over
Moaning, she caught the soles of her feet on his shoulder blades and used the farther to facilitate him This was Well, Rachel had never experienced such intense pleasure She alht die of it--but it was a heck of a way to go, she decided as the throes of her first climax struck, echoed out to Etienne and then were reflected back even more intensely
A soft chuckle drew her back to consciousness, and Etienne unhooked Rachel&039;s legs from over his shoulders and crawled up her body He settled on top of her where she lay on the damp sand Obviously, he had ood thing She would have drowned if he hadn&039;t She had fainted again, and even now she didn&039;t have the strength to hold her head or anything else up It was even an effort to force her eyes open, but she did and dazedly stared at him
"How? Where did you learn ? How?" she asked incoherently
Etienne grinned and brushed a daarden?"
Rachel&039;s mind was still so befuddled that she had to actually think for adawned at last, and she distinctly recalled feeling what he was experiencing as she had licked, kissed, and caressed hiht, allowing hiht pressure to send her over the moon And probably hi that she had shared his ecstasy
"Oh," she breathed, and found herself grinning foolishly The sex was definitely a plus about being a va to discover all sorts of pluses to this business What had she rinned back "Yes, I aood pair"
"Yeah" She sighed happily and stretched beneath hi forced her breasts up until they rested rinned when she felt his sex begin to stiffen again She already knew from experience that va to look as if those pluses were boundless, too
Catching her while she was still arched, Etienne scooped one hand under Rachel&039;s back, then shifted to kneel in the sand and caught her under her knees Lifting her into his arht her hand around his neck as he carried her to their blanket He took a hten the cloth with a foot, then dropped to his knees and laid her out He started to stand, but Rachel tightened her hold on his neck, preventing hi to draw him down for a kiss
Etienne allowed it, but only for a rab their picnic basket
Rachel was hungry, but not for food Not for blood either--which was rather surprising, since she had been hungry for blood almost nonstop since he had turned her She wondered briefly if that e but was distracted when Etienne began to pull items out of the basket
"Strawberries?" she asked with surprise He set a bowl of the ripe red fruit on the blanket
"Yeah Strawberries dipped in chocolate," he announced with a proud grin "It&039;s called fondue or so"
Rachel arched an eyebrow at the squeezable bottle of chocolate syrup he retrieved and set on the blanket beside the strawberries When he closed the basket and pushed it away, she tried to hide her amusement "I think fondue is warmed chocolate that you dip the strawberries into"
Etienne shrugged "Rachel, honey, I&039;uy This is fondue to hed