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"Busy?" I asked, looking down as he caressedmy white skin as drained, lifeless, helpless vaht black satin sheets I loved seeing his darker hands in stark relief on my pale skin, so visible wherever they roamed

Him not still "only" a man after his near-death experience, as Snow, and now Sansouci, had warned ain?" I asked

"What else?" His hand stroked h "Slick"

"Your fault"

"Then I should pay for it"

His handhard nohile his dark eyes watched my every breath All black pupil, his eyes, with only a wire-thin band of silver around the left one The irises of his eyes had always been so deeply brown I never could tell when his black pupils swelled with arousal Now, the silver was a dead giveaway

I gave away a little mew-purr of satisfaction e director here Ric atching ht touch overat their center Repeated

Ready So ready My hips swayed "I’? My navel fla rod between his hips brushed ers circling as I arched , ho crazy Loco"

His fingersover their sensitive inner slick I tried to consuer pressed down on theed silence, stillness

The roo trapped wild ani had boiled down to a painfully tight, aching ring at the fork ofelbow and ran his free hand into the hair at er strokeddeep crier tip It looked like blood

"Ric?"

He read ertip

I licked my lips "Sweet"

"Very sweet," his voice corrected

"Fruity Ric, what the hell--?"

"Smooth Slick Sweet"

"What is it?"

"The label’s so tiny it’s hard to read in the seht Cherry Shiot ht here Lip gloss? You’ve been … intoin your purse for interesting things?"

"Uh"

His hand was back onhot spot … ed in a book with half-nakedwith that, but I craved a less clichéd vocabulary to express this wild, et out of my throat was …

"Finish it!" I would not add "for God’s sake" I didn’t want any deities peeking in on this action

He laughed Fondly "Not even halfway there, Delilah You do seehty Lip Venole? There? You put Lip Venom on--?"

"I put it on your lips, ah, the thuony (the wait) and ecstasy (the forthcoh

"And uessed

"Always so fast with a deduction, but a little slow tonight"

"I aht I don’t need more foreplay I want … closure"

The answer tooveryet inthese sessions Just h

He kissed me from here to eternity His face andon ht Cherry Shiain in fascinating rhythh body paint and tease I needed the main act … now So …

I let my sensually torqued torso roll me flat on my back for the first ti our erotic encounters

Instead of clenching with the usual panic, I was a in a belly-exposing stretch I angledmy throat, then archedRic a full frontal self he’d never seen from

Ric’s hands slipped underme He leaned away to studyHe ran one hand up my arms and fixed my wrists in position

"You’rehis torso over mine, his voice thick "I’m your arroays"

Then the Spanish words ca out between kisses he pressed onfor a long passionate erously near-visible spot above one collarbone His restless ht fire, too, and then blazed a further trail down from navel to tilted pubic bone

Yes Hoht flattening me into thehis eyes, his mouth, his expression both drea hard with his pelvis so co-into-his- up from my tropical zone

My banshee howl threatened to raise the dead and lasted long enough to send a bunch of thehed into ash with a "we’re done" pat as he rolled away

Whoo

"You can fool around with e a whole sentence

We were sweat-slick, streaked with tracks of shiloss, and satisfied as hell

"Better shower," he said "I’ll co for a et up, I’m so …"

"Sticky," he finished "Shower Motel sheets We don’t want to leave a trail of Midnight Cherry Shile at"

I rolled out of the bed and went, gingerly, to the bathroohts

Okay Karaoke queen at a nude rock rave, thoroughly had, agreed with me This is what Ric had finally seen with me on my back My cherry-shiny nipples lossed loss had even slicked the new bruise already darkening ling in the deepest depths where I’d once been most pain-violated Keep the creative pelvic exaht without Irma’s help My body is your bow and you are ertips to disperse the dark criht red Bloodred Ric’s suction kiss had broken the skin Ouch A bit alare, but that could happen when the love was deep and the sex was hot I knew that now

My fingers returned toThe skin there was thinner, more sensitive It was just a small break, not like he’d … bittenunheard of I’d bitten hi the fact of feeling both satisfied and freed

Our previous back-avoiding positions deserved reruns but--so callfinally able to lie under Ric, watching hi his weight andit work for us For the first time, I felt that Ric had been able to do with me what he was born to do … dowse the depths oflike tears down my body

Now that the romantic interlude was over, Irma joined me in the shower

Whoo-ee Guy on top rocks And all that juicy red lip gloss our boy was laying on your touch-e my nipples with, say, Chambord raspberry liqueur from an Albino Vampire I bet that would drive Sansouci and ole Shez wild

TMI No improper names, please, I told her Glad you approve, but ouldn’t you? You’re nition at last Listen Don’t overthink the wild thing There are guys who like women in spike heels to walk all over them The S and M parlors are full of mock and real blood and thunder This was a little haro ballistic? You love the guy, bottom line

That’s why I worry Botto-up

What do you know? You had a bizarre, isolated upbringing and the sexual experience of a cantaloupe before you e twenty-four I take that back Who knohat cantaloupes can get up to?

I laughed

See You should be ood, it’s gotta be a problehed I just don’t want Ric to see I’otta be a little less Deliverer and a lot irl talk afterward Take it froreat sex

I rinsed well to ensure no Midnight Cherry Shiood ht Cherry Shimmer and Lip Venom could work both ways and maybe even better in reverse … on Señor La Vida Loca