Chapter 13

Jessica arched up against Zell, taking everything he would give her and knowing in her heart it wouldn't be enough. She welcomed the driving power of his thrusts. As he moved powerfully over her and inside of her, she wrapped her arms around him and pressed her cheek against his chest, hanging on for dear life as longing tore through her shield of logic once and for all. She was in love with a man for the first time in her life. He took her on a breathless climb to passion's very summit and soared with her over the edge, his big body straining against hers, his arms crushing her to him. In that one brilliant moment she knew that he loved her too.

They clung to each other for a moment then collapsed on the bed. Zell rolled off Jessica and she laid her arm across his chest. They smiled and kissed before they knew it they had fallen asleep in one another's arms.

Seifer's big body pressed down against Quistis and he began to moving slowly, easing in and out of her, gaining speed and strength with each thrust, until he was lifting her hips off the bed each time he drove into her. Quistis arched against him, straining to meet him, straining toward something she had only guessed at before now. It was unlike anything else she had experienced, this feeling of intense excitement that grew like a bubble inside her, pushing away sanity, pushing aside her need for control. It was at once frightening and exhilarating, sweeping her away on a wave of sensation.

She clung to Seifer as if he could anchor her to the real world. She wrapped her arms around him, wrapped her legs around his lean hips. And still the wild sensation grew, hotter and brighter and more intense, swelling until it burst into a million brilliant shards.

Quistis: Seifer!

Seifer felt her climax, heard her cry his name, then his own consciousness dimmed as he exploded inside her. He arched into her with a hoarse cry, unable to think, unable to comprehend anything except the exquisite pulsing of her body around his. The moment was so sweet, so perfect, so golden that for an instant all the darkness was banished from his soul and he felt clean and whole and at peace for the first time in a long while. He clung to the feeling, clung to Quistis, holding her to him as if he might be able to absorb some of her goodness he'd found in her.