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What's going on in Bristol Cove is anything but that.

Chapter 81

Danger lurks near

Walking into the Bristol Cove Medical Center, the tall sterned faced woman nodded to the security guard. He, being preoccupied with distraught parents pleading to be allowed to revisit their five year old daughter. The child fresh out of surgery to mend several fractures in both legs. Black shoulder length hair possessed arears soaked in sweat. The young mother found herself combing a trembling hand through a cluster of stubborn mounds of an unforgiving mane.

"Please, we just want to check in on her. Please…she's so tiny."

Her words cut short by a throat split in two.

"Honey, we'll wait. It'll be morning soon. Please." The husband's voice barely concealed the distressed tenor flowing through the forced words.

The young security guard looked as if a tear might shoot from the lower lid of his right eye. Massive arms strained the long sleeve navy blue shirt as a breath from the bull of a man almost popped a button.

"How about…" He inhaled again to find the strength to speak. "I will call upstairs. Maybe you can talk to the nurse on duty?"

Dressed in Scrubs, with a lanyard hanging from her neck, the confident medical person walked past the emotional scene scarcely noticed by the lone security guard.

Proceeding down the hall, the nurse in light blue dress continued past a sailor with a sidearm standing by one of the elevators.

As she waited for the other elevator door to open, there was a crackling coming over his radio.

Reaching for the device attached to his chest pocket, his words caused the woman's ears to flex.

""Great…when we move that guy to the facility then we'll have regular working hours."

Pausing as he took in more information. The voice on the radio seeped into another's ear.

"Hey, I like it up here on the third floor. This damn hallway is empty. They moved the other patients. Oh, yeah…I know this overnight gig stuff stinks."

As the door closed on the elevator, the lone passenger began a slow stream of air rushing in and out of her nostrils. The crystal glare of those blue-eyes intensified.

Turning her head, she gazed at the mirror lining the wall of the elevator.

"Yes…" A sly smile emerged on her clear skin. "I'll take care of that Brother before he talks." Elaine Pownall's chest expanded with the deep breath. "Then, that damn Ryn is next."

The other Pownall home

Ryn sits with her back stiffened on the bed. Both hands thrust to her front.

"Ahh!" A sharp squeak shoots from Maddie's lips.

"Ryn, you're hurting her." Ben's words do little to ease the grip on the squirming woman's throat.

Ryn's clutching hold on Ben's neck has been a cause of added stimulation in both partners. She has realized her mate's powerful orgasms augment with this show of dominance. At times, she forgets the human weaknesses of the other lover.

As the mermaid's hand slides down the gagging woman's breast, Maddie contorts her body gasping for air.

"My Maddie, I'm so sorry." The apologetic lover immediately puts her arm around a calmer young woman. Slowing down her breathing, the once frightened member of this tryst gazes at Ben. Looking past Ryn, Maddie's moist eyelids send a slow stream of tears slinking down her darkened cheeks.

"This means you must start the cycle. You must do it immediately." Ryn's voice is measured, as her black pupils scan the two lovers. One in her arms and the other leaving the bed.

"Ben…where do you think you're going?"
"Ryn, please…" Stronger and more virile due to the therapy, he is still part human. "I'm hurting. My lower abdomen is sore."

"You are my mate. We mate for life…not like underwater. You have shown me that female and male can mate for life."

Leaving Maddie to sit on the damp sheets, she moves to a distant Ben.

"We must finish. Ben you need to finish. I need to be pleased."
Taking a step toward the young woman, strong arms reach out for her. Ryn jumps into his grasp pressing open lips to a waiting mouth. While one lover hoists the other into position, a barrage of moans and harsh breathing fill the bedroom. Ben holds his lover mesh against his body as a pulsating series of thrusts meet her loins. Ryn's fingernails dig into the young man's upper back to add to the numerous streaks running along the skin as they resemble a poorly drawn road map.

All the while as the nude partner, alone and apparently invisible to the other two realizes a limit has been reached.

He must know this cannot continue. At least for me.

Her thought weaves its way into Ben's mind as his eyes meet hers.

In a second it will be over and Ryn will be satisfied. But for how long.

Maddie may be right? Interrupted by the culminating climax seconds away, he thinks remembers the last conversation with Maddie.

Europe? Can it be? Could I ever leave her? Do I really want to?

A vice-like grimace press his teeth together. Ryn's legs wrapped around him mirroring a stranglehold as his last lunges subside in their intensity.

As she slides downward still clinging to his body. He casts one last look at Maddie before crumpling in his lover's arms.

Ryn will never hurt Maddie's baby. I know it. His mind is clear.

The solemn figure on the bed thinks of another outcome.

Will Ryn kill me?

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