~*~o~*~
After awhile, Steve crawled out of bed. "Where are you going?" Kayla asked.
"I'm hungry. I need a snack."
He came back a few minutes later with a bowl full of plump red grapes. He plopped one in his mouth as he placed his gaze on Kayla. "We need to talk," he said after he had devoured the grape.
"Okay. What's on your mind?" Kayla questioned.
"You seduced me," he remarked quietly.
"I know," she said as she ran her eyes over his naked body.
"You should not have done that," Steve spoke in a low growl.
"Steve, we belong together. I had to make you realize it somehow."
Steve picked up another grape and ate it as he gave Kayla a glare. "You drive a hard bargain, baby. There's no way I can let you go after what we just shared," he told her. "You have to put up with me now, my dark past and all. You're going to live to regret that you know."
Kayla smiled as she just shook her head. "I'll never regret what I have with you," she stated. "What we shared earlier is just the beginning."
*The beginning of Heaven and Hell,* Steve was thinking.
"Come to bed, Steve," Kayla coaxed.
"I'm eating my snack," he said as he ate a couple of the grapes.
"Lie down with me and we'll hold each other."
"I'm not much for cuddling, Kayla."
"It will be different with you and me. Lie down here and put your arms around me," Kayla urged him.
Steve put the bowl of grapes aside and crawled back into bed with Kayla. He pulled her nakedness against him as he placed a kiss into her golden hair. "Go to sleep," he said gruffly.
Kayla wrapped her arms around him as she held him close. She knew he loved cuddling with her, even if he was too stubborn to admit it. He wanted her and needed her as much as she needed him; she was certain of it.
Xxxooo
Steve and Kayla awakened in the morning in each other's arms. "I want you again," Steve said as he began nibbling her neck. Kayla smiled as she realized she wanted him just as much. At least he was no longer pushing her away. She took that as a really good sign.
Steve had just removed his boxers when there was urgent knocking upon the door. "Dammit, who could that be?" Steve said in a growl. He wasn't too pleased that someone had interrupted his lovemaking session with Kayla.
"Cover yourself, baby," Steve said to Kayla as he slipped his boxers back on and went to answer the door.
Kayla followed after him with a sheet wrapped around her. When Steve pulled the door open, Kayla stared in shock. It was her brother Bo standing in the doorway with a look of rage upon his face.
"Kayla, what the hell are you doing with HIM?" Bo demanded as he gave Steve a look that could have killed.
"Why is it any of your business?" Kayla asked her brother.
"Did you ask him how he lost his eye?" Bo questioned.
"No..."
"Tell her," Bo prompted Steve.
"Your brother cut my out," Steve told Kayla.
"Why would you do that?" Kayla demanded of Bo.
"We were fighting over a woman," Bo admitted.
"What in the world?" Kayla gasped when she heard that her brother Bo had cut out Steve's eye when they had been involved in a knife fight. "Bo! How could you have-?"
"Kayla, I loved her, and HE took her away from me."
"Baby, we were in the merchant marines. Bo was seeing Brita... but she was also seeing me behind his back. Things got messy," Steve quickly tried to explain.
"It was justice that you lost your eye!" Bo said in a growl. "Brita and I were in love, but you enticed her into your bed."
"Brita wasn't in love with you," Steve laughed. "She was in love with me!"
"You're going to hurt Kayla, just like you hurt Brita," Bo said in a growl. "I am not going to just stand here and let you DESTROY my sister!"
"What are you going to do about it?" Steve taunted. "Kayla's a grown woman. If she wants to be with me, that's her choice."
"What's it going to be, Kay?" Bo questioned. "Do you really want to be with this loser?"
"Go away, Bo. I am staying with Steve," Kayla stated.
"Are you out of your mind?" Bo growled in frustration. "This man is dangerous. When Mom and Pop find out you've been shacking up with him-."
"I'm not 'shacking up' with him!" Kayla responded. "But go ahead and tell them if you want to, I have nothing to hide!"
Knowing he couldn't talk Kayla into giving up Steve, Bo gave the man with a patch a warning. "If you hurt my sister, I'll KILL you," he threatened.
Steve just grinned and wrapped an arm around Kayla. "I warned Kayla what she was getting into before we got anything started," Steve replied. "She ignored all my warnings and decided she wanted me anyway."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Bo hissed.
"What I have in mind for your sister has nothing to do with hurting her," Steve said as he gave Kayla a sexy wink.
"Why you-!" Bo exploded, grabbing Steve in a fierce grip and giving him a vicious shake. "Shut up now or I'll cut your other eye out!"
Steve actually laughed as though he enjoyed tormenting Bo. "Knock it off, you two!" Kayla insisted as she gave her brother a swift smack atop his head. "I won't have you fighting over me!"
"I'm not fighting, baby. Does it look like I am fighting?" Steve asked with that grin still on his face.
Bo abruptedly let Steve go and he nearly fell to the floor. Steve steadied himself as he held his ground against Bo. "Get out of my house," he said in a low, dangerous tone. "Get out now... and don't come back."
"Alright," Bo said as he looked at Kayla. "I'll leave. But you're making a mistake, Kay. The biggest one ever. He's going to hurt you... and I love you too much to watch him destroy you."
"Shut the fuck up and GET OUT," Steve insisted as he ushered Bo to the door.
After the door was closed and Bo had left, Kayla looked at Steve. "Now tell me what that was really about," she demanded.
