"Come with me now Jenny," said Julian as he tipped her chin up as if for a kiss.  His lips were inches away.  His hands commanded her "it's time to surrender."  His glacier blue eyes bore into her soul.

  "Yes," she meant to say more, truly she did.  She meant to come up with an excuse to edge away, to get away, truly she did. 

But it was his lips that stopped her.

As she drew herself up to answer him she also closed those precious inches between them and the outcome was her submission.

Their lips touched.

Jenny drowned under his power.  She could sense it through his kiss as he pressed insistently against her lips.  She kissed him back.  She felt the darkness around her as his hard kiss made her un-expectantly step back.

For a fleeting moment she was alone in darkness.  In a void. 

Then he was back.

Once again their lips joined, softly this time.

So soft, her hands moved up almost against her own will, her hands glided into his hair.  So soft, just like the kisses, which were getting shorter and gentler by the minute.  Then on immensely long and sensitive kiss before Julian lifted his head.

His hands went to her face, her legs nearly gave away, but she re-firmed herself against such weakness and they held.

Jenny opened her eyes to see him studying her greedily, but as she looked up at him his eyes flickered to her eyes and held her gaze.

  "We're here."

It took a moment to realise what he was talking about.  Gasping she looked around her.  Julian stepped back and she could see them.

They looked stunned.

They were looking at her with wide eyes and open mouths.  Any other time and it would have been comical.  Now she just felt ashamed. 

Tom, her beloved Tom was looking at her with unforgiving eyes.