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The ardeur fell on us, and we fell into the water It took us almost a minute to reasping for air, laughing alh for it Clothes had vanished in the first rush We were naked in the water How had we et out of the jeans that fast? A piece of jean cloth floated by me Oh, that&039;s how

"No missionary position, we&039;ll both drown," I said

His curls were plastered to his head, and his hair looked black in the candlelight The laughter died fro darker, more basic, behind A look that made e of the tub, pressing ainst the s me between the tub and his body The feel of hiainst the front of my naked body ueripped away, but I wasn&039;t sure when, or even which of us had done it I was getting better at thinking when the ardeur rose, but there werewas not what I did

He moved back fromhis hand play over that thick, firled hihs He felt incredibly large sliding between le upward, or enter hs, so that the thickness of hiainst all ofhis body like another hand, to caress and play between , with none of the delicacy of fingers You&039;d think water would help everything be slippery, but water h it felt good, it also was rougher than it would have been if I&039;d been ith soh," he said, and his voice was thick and strangely hoarse, strangled with desire

I would have liked to argue, because the ardeur wanted to argue, wanted to say, take me, take me now If I&039;d been with almost any otherme, or him, but Micah was the exception to a lot of rules in th that was the problem, it was the width We&039;d found this out the hard way, and had had the rubby spots to prove it

I h"

He leaned his forehead against mine and said a heartfelt, "Shit"

I nodded ainst his, wordless assent, because I didn&039;t truston need He drew his body fros, and even that drew a small sound from me His hands went to my waist and he just suddenly lifted e of the tub If his hand hadn&039;t been onI would have overbalanced and fallen back into the water, but he steadied , but the other handto do er slid inside ood So good that I lay back along the raised tile around the tub I felt the heat before I actually lay down on the candles, but the heat of it pressed against my skin I sat up so abruptly that he had to move his hands and spill et burned?" he asked

I shook ht hed, sort of shakily "Stupid"

Micah looked atin that look

"What?" I asked

"The ardeur is gone"

I thought about it, felt around for it, and found no, no, not gone, but receded Not receded like when I fought it, but ain Or maybe even the ardeur bows to physical survival But I could feel it like a stor

"I thought I&039;d caught ain," he said

I frowned at hi that you , even physical safety?"

He shook his head "Notbetter, Anita"

There was so serious and a little sad, that ?"

He kissed ht have argued with hih time It hit me like a train and threw me into his arry to touch hih We kissed the sary for each other It was as if we could have ould have clih each other, closer than skin or flesh could survive

Oneto cli up, up throughup h to say, "Anita"

I used hands and body to press his h his body in a line of breath-stealing heat It rose fast and faster as if it had to catch up with h that dark water, raced, and raced, faster and faster until they hit the surface It wasn&039;t about changing shape, it was about changing bodies It was about that need to wrap as ht, and close as I could It was as if the very essence of our bodies had responded to that desire Our beasts spilled out of our mouths, and brushed metaphysical furred sides down each other, as we spilled inside each other&039;s bodies It was closer than sex Closer than anything I&039;d ever felt It was as if for a blinding, shattering moment, ere in each other&039;s bodies Not in our s, not even memories, but for a breath or two, a part of me slipped inside him, and a part of him slipped inside me They weren&039;t parts that could think and feel like a hu There was none of that, , so this is how it feels to be Micah There was only a sense of burrowing down, down deep inside hi place where the beast lay and having my beast curl up, for a moment, inside his most secret space, while his beast did the same in me

In thatpower, fed on the sensation of being deeper inside Micah&039;s body than I&039;d ever been inside any man&039;s before The ardeur fed, and left us quieter, calo back up the way they&039;d come One moment that piece of me was curled warm and safe inside him, and the sensation of him inside er and took up y didn&039;t coies spilled out the fronts of our bodies, out our skin, so that for a heartbeat it felt as if we&039;d burst our skins, and two great furred shapes were passing through us, then it was as if the two beasts dropped back into place I swear I felt as if soht was dropped down the center offroht, and could feel the body falling through, breathless I found my voice first, "Wow"

He looked happier than I&039;d ever seen hireat weight had gone fro hard, "you&039;re not supposed to be able to do that, if one of you is human"

"I didn&039;t know you were supposed to be able to do that at all," I said

"If you are both powerful, and a true mated pair, then it&039;s possible"

"You say it, like it has a name"

"Shiva and Pavarti, or si"

"Shiva, ould destroy the world with his energy if Pavarti didn&039;t constantly have sex with hiy"

He nodded "World religion class froain?"

I shook a, a real live one that had been a criion I et others from the same place"

"Did you?"

"Nope" I thought about it "Well, not yet" I put my arms behind his head, and drew hiht, but he kept himself just above my face "You fed the ardeur"

"I still want a kiss"

He kissed rew until ere feeding at each other&039;s ht we&039;d done this already"

I wasn&039;t sure how to explain it We&039;d had ular sex I was puized I could feel him still hard and thick pressed between our bodies I wanted him inside me I wanted him as close physically as I&039;d had him metaphysically

I kept one hand behind his neck, but let the other trace down his body, until I could cup him in my hand He closed his eyes and sed hard I ers around him He was so hard, so thick, so solid in my hand that it made me close my eyes, made my breath shudder from my body

I opened my eyes and knew that my focus was already soft "I want this inside me"