Chapter Seven: Page Two

Her lover kicked off his boots, and Selphie, her slippers. With impatient, fumbling fingers, she tugged at the laces that held his vest closed. Gradually his kisses grew more fevered, stoking the blaze of her desire. His lips strayed lower, pushing aside the light fabric of her Greek chiton bodice with his chin until he had bared her breast for his delectation…and hers. Selphie swallowed a little gasp when his lips closed over the crest of her bosom, followed by the first hot swipe of his tongue. She arched herself toward him, her gasp muting into a purr of pleasure. She could feel his lips curve into a smile as he continued to favor her with the delightful worship of his body. Slipping his hand beneath the hem of her gown, he began to trace the contour of her leg. With every inch his velvet touch ascended, her delight and her need grew, until she wondered how her senses could contain them. When he halted, then began to retreat, only a forceful application of his lips upon hers kept Selphie from crying out her sharp, sweet yearning. "I must get out of these clothes!" His hoarse whisper rasped in Selphie's ear, echoing her own thoughts precisely. After a brief, frantic struggle to remove their costumes, they subsided back onto the sheets with soft sounds of fulfillment, relishing the contact between their naked bodies, which fairly glowed with mutual desire. Selphie pushed her lover onto his back, pinning him beneath her, eager to explore and excite him, as he had done to her. "Enough!" He spoke in a soft, urgent growl at last. "If you keep this up, I will be no more good to you." "Indeed?" She chuckled. "Is that how it works? I fear I have much to learn about the doings of husbands and wives." "I have no vast experience myself," he admitted. "Shall we learn together?" Selphie wriggled against him, delighting in the feel of his firm-muscled chest against her dewy bosom. "I am prepared to devote countless hours to the pursuit of such vital knowledge." "And I shall be your willing partner in…study." Once again he began to kiss and fondle her with untutored prowess born of desire and love for her. As the music of a summer night engulfed them and swept them away, they came together at last in a surge of wild magic that would have been worth a lifetime of waiting and wanting.