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“I wish I could hold you inside me.” A little shudder worked from her body, a gasp left her throat. “Forever.”
Her voice was pure sensation, a dark caress over senses destroyed by the power of his release and the effect she always had on him.
She would do this to him, no matter their age, no matter how weak or how tired he ever became. Her pleasure would always spur his, always leave him helpless to do anything but feel, touch, taste and experience the never-ending pleasure that only she could give him.
Finally, he found enough breath inside him to drag his body off hers and pull her against his chest.
“We need a shower,” he sighed. “I even had the soap laid out.”
A weak laugh left her lips. “How many soaps do you have, Seth?”
He frowned. How many did he have?
“I don’t know. How many trips did I make in ten years?”
He felt her thinking. She would know, if she could think. Hell, he couldn’t find the energy for a fucking thought in his head.
“A lot,” she said finally and yawned, shifting and turning, finding her place against his chest.
She had a particular position she liked to go to sleep in, one that left him wrapped around her and her wrapped inside the curve of his body. Hell, he loved that position.
“A lot of soaps then.” He smirked into the predawn shadows of the room. “If a scent made me think of you, I found a soap maker. Ireland in all seasons. Scotland during a highland summer beside a clear running stream. I thought of you there. I even bought the land. Paris, the countryside alive with spring. There was even this little town, somewhere in Egypt, where the scent of the desert sands met a private oasis. Damn, I got hard thinking of you there.”
A light laugh against his chest. “You had a soap made for me every time you got hard?”
“Hell, not enough rooms in this house to store that much soap.” He grinned. “Nah, I had to be someplace I thought you’d like. A scent I wanted to share with you. An emotion I wanted you to know.” The grin turned rueful. “I wanted to share it all with you, and that was the only way I knew how to do it.”
“You never gave me the soaps though,” she pointed out.
“Because I wanted to bathe you with them myself,” he sighed, his hands running over her body. “I wanted to seduce you with scents and touch. Hell, Dawn, I wanted a reason to make myself believe I could have you. If I had the soaps, maybe you’d be curious about the scents. If you liked the silks and lace of the panties, maybe, just maybe,” his voice thickened, “you’d model them for them.”
“So you could seduce me?” Her voice was soft, and in it, he heard her joy.
“So I could seduce you. Forever.” He pressed her head against his chest.
“I love you, Seth. Until there’s no tomorrow, no beginning or end, I love you.”
And for a second his eyes closed, because the emotion that swamped him nearly undid him.
“And I love you, sweetheart. Until I’d wither away and die without you.”
And there, curled into each other, as dawn lifted across the sky, they slept. The ragged survivors of a tempest.
Cassie stared into the darkness of her bedroom.
The child was gone. It had slowly faded away hours before, but it had done so with such a look of hope that she had shed a tear and whispered a prayer that Dawn had finally let her in.
Every Breed in the house had heard Dawn’s screams. Cassie’s parents still hadn’t returned to their room after rushing to the basement, but Cassie knew it wasn’t because Dawn was in pain any longer. Dawn had awoken, just as the new day was rising.
She rose from her bed and stared down at the evening gown she still wore. They hadn’t been back in the room long before Dawn’s screams had pulled her parents away.
Her mother had been brushing Cassie’s hair. Sometimes her parents took turns brushing her hair, as they had when she was a little girl, despite the fact that she often protested it.
Her father couldn’t seem to accept that she was growing up. And her mother, Cassie often thought, saw her daughter’s maturity with a sense of fear.
She moved from her bedroom to the sitting room, pausing in front of the doors, pulled there as though by an unseen force she couldn’t understand.
She didn’t dare walk outside.
