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“Why not?” I shuck my pants off, my erection proud and thick “This body is yours,about it It was created only for you” I stride to her, but she doesn’t turn
“You’re naked Right behindnaked”
I lean close, my lips to her ear “You can look all you want I don’tof your beautiful skin, perfect breasts, and creahs for the rest of my life”
She shivers, her breathing speeding up I run a finger along her delicate neck, then press ently Her breath hitches as I suck lightly, then move closer to the skin beneath her ear
A loud splash breaks thebeneath the water
“We’ll continue this” I nibble her ear lobe
She hastily turns toward camp “I need, um I need to …” She doesn’t finish the sentence, just hurries away through the trees
I stretch and head toward the pool Gareth splashes towards the far edge to grab some blumerin As I wade in, I can feel Taylor’s eyes on me, and when roan and sink beneath the sparkling surface
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Taylor
We spend the next three days travelling through the forest, the horses no longer running at breakneck speeds Gareth and Leander still keep a wary eye out, stopping at tih the trees Sleeping next to Leander becoentle touches easing my worries
“Is there a damn town anywhere around here?” Beth rubs her lower back
“There are towns” Gareth leans away froerous”
“And the forest isn’t?” She twists, her back cracking, and sighs
“The forest hides us froh the trees “But we’ll enter the Red Plains in two days’ tie along the way”
“Nice Maybe that’ll give ”
“I don’t grunt” Gareth’s offended tone makes Beth smile
“Sure you don’t” She loves getting hi at each other
Leander pulls the reins a little so we drop back from the repartee on the other horse “Are you tired?”
“I’m okay” Truth be told, ry, and I long for another bath
“Do you … miss the hu around a grave
I sigh “Yes”
He stiffens a bit “Hmm”
“But the human world isn’t all roses,” I hasten to add “It has plenty of room for improvement”
“Were you unhappy there?”
How do I answer that? My entire childhood was a nighte from My relationship with my mom is terrible, I can’t even reme role in allto feel like I was on the right path I was doing well in school, excelling in s were looking up until Cecile sent me here
I realize I’ve been lost in thought instead of answering his question “It was a ”
“How so?”
I shrug “Soood”
“Tell ”
“Everything? That’s a lot”
“We have time” He leads the horse around a sinkhole littered with ivy and odd pink blooms shaped like corkscrews
“Uraduated high school and then left for college”
“School? Magical or elemental?”
I turn and peer at his dark eyes and handsoular school You know, history, s like that”
His brows knot, but he says, “Interesting Please continue”
“I had a knack for the sciences” There isn’t a word in fae for what I’lish “Chemistry and physics especially”
“What are chemistry and physics?” The words come out funny with his thick accent
I smile at his pronunciation “Physics is the study of s—and how it behaves The planets, the stars, a rock, water, you, me—it’s all matter It can be as se as the universe Physicists try to figure out why matter behaves in different ways and what thatout about matter, and you can prove it applies to all ravity”
“Gravity?”
“Gravity is an invisible force that pulls ether”
His arainst him “Gravity”