Thank you so much for the reviews. I appreciate your feedback. Sorry for the prolonged cliffhanger (and any damage I may have caused your ladyparts, Ichigo holic. LOL). My plot bunnies escaped and I had to track them down. I'll try to update more often. Thank you again and review, review, review.
The silence in the room became deafening. Worried Mika would cast him out of the very bed she'd insisted they share, Raizo wished he'd used his brain before opening his mouth.
"I'm sorry, Mika. I did not intend to …" he broke off as her hot little fingers pressed against his lips shushing him.
"You didn't offend me…just caught me off guard. I don't' suppose you can help yourself and I should be used to it by now," she said sitting up nibbling her lip. She glanced nervously at him then seemed to steel herself as if prepping to take dive off a cliff.
Grasping the hem of his shirt, she slipped it over her head and tossed it on the floor. Raizo sucked in a ragged breath. His gaze consumed her as Mika slide panties off her hips and down her legs. She lay back against the pillows eyes closed and bare before his eyes. He had seen nude women many times during his shadowed existence. But this was different. He felt his already sated manhood stir then harden like concrete while he memorized the landscape of her sylph-like body.
Eyes sweeping up to her face, Raizo noticed Mika was now savaging her bottom lip. Something about the nervous action beckoned to him. Instinctively, he leaned down and swept his tongue over the abused flesh making her gasp. Unable to resist, Raizo pressed his advantage and devoured her lips and mouth. The tender swipes and flicks of that sweet tongue inflamed his senses and their soft kisses quickly turned into a voracious duel. Hypnotized by Mika's responses to the rhythmic thrusting of his tongue, his hand slide across the silken skin and felt her tremble. Raizo snatched his hand back realizing he had been about to cup her breast. He stared at the offending appendage as if his hand had suddenly evolved a mind of its own.
"I'm sorry, Mika … I," he panted. She ignored him and took his hand placing it above her heart.
"It would be more … educational. If you … assisted me."
She peered up at him through her lashes. Her topaz eyes held a carnal gleam to them that had his blood revving in his veins. Brain finally processing her words, Raizo could only manage a nod. With her guiding hand as encouragement, he cupped and squeezed her perfect breasts. Unbidden, his mouth watered as her nipples stiffened reminding him of ripe berries. An irrepressible appetite overcame him and he lowered to take the nipple into his mouth. Mika moaned pressing the flesh deeper into his possession. Her panting and noises of pleasure to his sucks and flicks of his tongue to her delicious berries were his only guidance.
Raizo's attention shifted when he saw Mika's hand skim down her body. As she reached the sparse hair covering her mound, one knee rose up and outward revealing herself to him. He was utterly captivated. Her fingers began stroking the pink folds of her sex like the petals of some exotic orchid. Seeing her like this, breasts heaving with beads of sweat glistening on her stomach and thighs, soft moans escaped that angelic mouth at her climax, was far better than anything he had imagined. Raizo had never felt so … aroused in his life, never felt more alive.
He skated his fingertips over her belly leaning in to slide his tongue into mouth. He felt drunk on the taste of her and the scent of their arousal. Raizo slid his hand down to join hers. A wanton moan escaped her slender throat. He swallowed her next moans as honey coated his fingers while he set a frenzied pace against the tender flesh of her sex. She gasped clutching at his shoulders drawing him down. Nervously, Raizo came to rest on top of her. She smiled up at him then shifted bringing his cock to rest between her thighs. He hissed yet automatically flexed his hips to grind against her core. The fluffy cotton towel separating their flesh now felt like steel wool on his sensitized skin. Impatiently, he pulled it off flinging it aside. He felt a heat so intense what little self control he had left crumbled. With a mindless fervor, he rocked and grinded the head of his cock against the slick hot folds of her pussy.
"Mika…," Raizo groaned feeling the precipice fast approaching but unable to stop his hips.
"Don't stop," she uttered writhing to meet his thrusts. He seized her mouth in a searing kiss. Hips snapping, he rutted against that consuming heat surrendering to the sensation pulsing through him. Raizo roared her name in release splattering her sex and stomach with his seed and collapsed. He rested half on her side with his head nestled beneath her breast. His arms hugged her waist while still trying to catch his breath.
Raizo started when something rough brushed against his still quivering member. Opening his eyes, he glimpsed Mika using the damp towel to clean away his …. Shittt. Blushing, he tensed to rise but Mika held him tight to her body and intertwined their legs.
"Shhh, go back to sleep," she whispered. Her fingers lazily ghosted over his skin drawing soothing circles across his back then up and down his spine. They were tunneling through his hair making him purr like a contented cat as he succumbed to sleep.
Raizo woke before dawn as usual but did not move. He knew a busy day lie ahead of them. He should commence his workout now but still he did not move. He lay there wrapped in her warm embrace listening to his favorite melody playing in his ear. Far better than any meditation he had learnt over the years. Though he knew he didn't deserve such a thing, Raizo would like nothing more than to wake up like this for the rest of his days. He just didn't know how to make that happen.
Mika felt Raizo's comforting weight pressing her into the mattress when she woke. Unconsciously her fingers resumed stroking his silky hair as she had when they'd fallen asleep. Her mind replayed the events of last night. Things had gotten a little out of hand. Especially since she was suppose to be 'taking it slow' but she couldn't bring herself to regret it. Mika just hoped Raizo felt the same way. Their little make out session was the most erotic thing she'd ever done. Sadly, it was more … satisfying than with her previous lovers. Even sadder, her list of lovers consisted of three men. Okay, this is truly a case of 'the blind leading the blind' if I'm in charge of Raizo's sexual education, she thought glumly.
Mika was uncertain what to expect today between the two of them. Most men would not handle last night well the morning after. Hell from her limited experience they weren't around the morning after. But Raizo was not 'most men' and his experience was nonexistent from what she understood. It was that fact which sent another wave of apprehension flooding her thoughts and tainting her calm mood.
Lifting his head and resting on one elbow, Raizo said, "Good morning."
"Good morning," Mika's voice quavered slightly betraying her anxiety. By the quirking of one brow, Raizo hadn't miss it. Climbing up to lie next to her, he took her hand that was twisting the sheets into a knot and placed it in his palm. He seeming to marvel at the differences.
"Mika …," he seemed to be searching for the right words, "I'm…" Mika cut him off.
"If you apologize, I'm going to … poke you in the eyes," she threatened with a grim smile.
With another quirk of his brow and that sexy smirk she adored, he said, "I wasn't going to apologize."
"You weren't?"
"No, I was going to … thank you. It sounds strange but … thank you," he said stroking her knuckles. "Will you still attempt to blind me?"
Returning his rueful smile, she said, "no, I think I can restrain myself. So .. no regrets?"
Mika tried her best to keep her voice and expression nonchalant while scrutinizing him intensely. His dark eyes were burnt sienna in the morning light as their gazes locked. A beatific smile brightened his adorable visage transforming him before her eyes once again.
"I've never regretted anything to do with you, Mika. Never," he said bringing her knuckles to his lips. She bit her lip feeling Raizo kiss against each digit.
"Wait," he said intertwining their fingers. "There is one."
She flinched involuntary clutching the blanket to her chest but schooled her face as best as she could. Unable to find her voice, she imitated his subtle nod for him to continue. He leaned in brushing his lip against her earlobe. The tension dissolved leaving her skin so sensitive it tingled from his warm breath.
"I regret not being inside you … but I hope … my education … will continue," he said pausing for emphasis to trail kisses down her neck. She tilted her head giving him better access.
"Would you object?" he asked pulling back. She blinked. Her blushing ninja had advanced to seducer at lightning speed. Two could play that game. She leaned into him letting the sheet fall so her nipples brushed against his bare chest.
"No, besides you're … education is too important," she whispered against the corner of his mouth before capturing his lips in a carnal kiss. Feeling his hardened arousal against her thigh, she pulled back from him reluctantly.
"We need to get dressed. I'm sure Mikhail has been up since dawn in his lab. He'll have already started working based on the information you gave him at dinner," he said eyes trained on her breasts as she wrapped the sheet around herself.
"Ladies first," he said motioning to the shower.
Smirking, she rose enjoying the view. Raizo rested against the headboard his erection standing proud.
"You could join me. It would be more efficient, two birds one stone and all that," she offered. His eyes darkened with lust and his member flinched.
"I don't think we would make it to Mikhail's lab if I do," he replied gruffly. Smirked heading for the bathroom because it definitely hadn't sounded like a 'no'. She felt his heated gaze follow her all the way down the hall like a warm caress on her backside.
Hand tightly clasped in Raizo's, Mika followed him down a stone passageway through a medieval looking metal gate imbedded in the rock reminding her of the days when pirates roamed the Aegean and Mediterranean. They walked onto a metal landing in a large cavern. Their was a elevator that she envisioned was originally designed for mining shafts. Raizo proceeded to a staircase next to the elevator. Looking down as they descended a wrought iron spiral staircase, Mika saw Mikhail sitting in at a large console consisting of five LCD monitors looking surprisingly at home banging on the keyboard. One of the younger Titus brothers, Nico was bending over his shoulder commenting on whatever they were viewing. Ivan, Alexi, and a tall man she didn't know were working at a long work table that was littered with electronic parts.
"Raizo, Miss Corretti, Good morning. I thought I would have to send someone to fetch you. Did you sleep well?" the old man inquired his eyes still glued to one of his monitors.
Mika felt Raizo tense slightly and she tried her best not to blush.
"Fine, thank you again. Mr. Titus for having me," Mika replied. He turned from his task removing his glasses. Under the scrutiny of those grey eyes, she felt examined and assessed. Despite his jovial nature, she could imagine he made an intimidating figure. He rose to take her hand and led her over to the long work table.
"Nonsense child and call me Mikhail. I am just overly eager to show off my humble abode. Plus I've been itching to get my hands on the scroll you mentioned last night."
By the time Mika was seated Raizo was already setting up her laptop. He also removed the metal box containing Sabatin's research. Déjà vu tinkled her mind as she pulled out photocopies then began laying out the scroll. A little tense, Mika stood back allowing the others to view the documents. For some odd reason she felt protective of all the items Mrs. Sabatin had entrusted to her and her alone. Must be a librarian thing, she thought.
"Oh …magnificent, what did you find you old fool?" Mikhail said almost as if to himself. "Couldn't leave it alone," he whispered.
She looked over at him to see his eyes were damp and face red. Alexi and Ivan crowded next to their father each putting a hand on his shoulder. Nico was covertly dapping at his eyes as he returned to the bank of monitors.
"Oh God, you knew him," she said as realization kicked her in the shin. Mikhail pressed his thin lips together to form a grim line.
"He was godfather to my first born son," he said calmly but Mika heard the grief welling there. Her eyes were drawn to Raizo. He was staring at the floor with the usual iron mask in place. Yet, she discerned sorrow in his dark brown eyes. Their conversation from the plane played in her mind.
"How many like me have you saved?"
"A few, but not enough though."
