AN: First, I realized I posted the wrong piece to Covet in this series. While it's similar, it has a very different ending than another vignette of the same name. That's what happens when you lack the inspiration to rename one of the pieces. Both have the same start, but I modified the second in an offshoot series called Tempest when one of my betas was being evil one day and said she'd like to see it become a Rath/Liz/Michael triangle. Evil people betas...always sparking the muse. So I edited this series to include the correct vignette. Second, this next vignette, while short, has explicit adult content that rates a Hard R and borders NC-17. If it's not to your taste, you miss absolutely nothing by skipping Bear. Just a little smuttiness that continues on from Fire. The one following it, Divine, still contains adult situations (read references to sex) but isn't as blatant. Enjoy!

Bear

"Michael, please," she gasped, a shiver of desire coursing through her body as he lowered his head, lightly flicking his tongue over her taut stomach, before dipping it into her navel.

"Please what, Parker?" he smirked, flicking smoldering whiskey eyes up at his squirming girlfriend, before trailing his lips over the subtle curve of her stomach.

"I can't bear anymore, please," she cried breathlessly, body arching when warm lips grazed across her inner thigh and placed a wet kiss against it.

"No, I don't think so," he chuckled as he trailed his lips up her thigh, stopping just short of where she wanted his tongue, switching sides to repeat his actions. He'd been drawing their love making out for an hour now, working his mischievous girlfriend to a frenzy. He had warned her.

Liz growled when he refused to give into her desires again, grabbing for his head to make him comply and missing when he ducked out of reach. "Damn it Michael, stop teasing!"

He smirked at her obvious frustration, reaching between her thighs, lightly tracing his fingers over her wet slit, pressing her hips into the mattress with his other hand as her hips bucked under his touch. "This what you want, Liz?" he queried silkily.

"Oh God, yes," she whispered, a breathy moan tumbling over her lips, fighting the hand holding her hips to press herself into his hand, whimpering with frustrated need when he continued his light strokes.

"Learn your lesson, yet?" he smiled, fiery eyes sparkling devilishly, and dipped his fingers into her wet heat, stroking her leisurely for a moment before pulling back, chuckling. He knew he was so in for it later.

She whimpered softly, teeth sinking into her bottom teeth as he stretched above her, sliding his hands over sensitized skin, pressing his body to hers and leaning to whisper breathlessly in her ear. "Want to come, Parker?"

"Yes, God damn it, you tease!" she cried, glowering in frustration, grabbing his head and yanking it down to hers as he drove into her in one smooth stroke, shuddering as electricity danced along his skin.

Both knew that they wouldn't last long after his prolonged enticement.

~...~

Divine

It has to be Heaven. That's the only possible explanation. He died and some mix up in the books sent him to this divine place rather than being thrown into the pits of hell.

Running callused hands over her soft curves, his lips brush hers reverently as he seats himself deeply into her body, gasping as an electric current surges through him, making them both quake internally.

God, she feels so good, so right.

Moving against each other in a slow, languorous dance, their hands slide along sweat slicked skin, fanning the emotional inferno raging across their nerves like a hot desert wind, before locking together in unity.

Capturing her lips possessively, he drives one final time before they shoot to the stars, white-hot heat radiating around them as their souls entwine and the bond they forged years before cements into a permanent seal branding their souls forever.