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The shower cooled her senses, she let the cold water rinse her free from the desire raving in her body. Why did just watching him make her react this way, this unconcentrated? The two of them alone, was it a plan? Was it intentional, part of a test? But then she had really volunteered, so maybe she was just letting her immagination run wild. Who was she fooling, nothing was gonna happen, never would. He just wasn't interested in her like that.

Remembering Teaspoon's face as he told them they'd be all taking of and leaving the place in hers and Kid's tender care she shrugged. He had actually used the term 'tender care'. Words Lou had never thought would come out of Teaspoon's mouth. Was she that obvious? It was all Kid's fault anyways, he did not have to walk with the loose shirt tied around the firm hips. There was absolutely no need for him to let his hand rest on the small of her back as they walked back to the house. He didn't need to talk to her in that low vibrating voice, heightening her senses to a fever pitch. She wouldn't stand this for long, hell even the cold shower had her thinking of him. His body moving with hers in slow motion.

Angrily she switched the water off and remain looking down her body as the water dripped off her. Her body was so ready for him it actually shivered at the sound of his voice. It wasn't enough with dreaming any longer and touching herself only brought momentary relief. She needed him, it should be so very easy. Him and her, glued together, moving each other to the peak. She had all these pictures in her mind that kept popping up at the most unexpected instances, breaking her concentration, fueling her wild imagination.

Covering herself in the soft towel she imagined his hands on her, soothing and arousing. "Oh I hope to God he suffers too!!" She moaned to the towel as she dried her face, helplessly trying to steer her thoughts away from the man outside. Tending to the horses, not to her. To the horses.

Slipping into the loose shirt she grimaced to herself. She had work waiting to be done, work that should have been done two days ago. Findings to list, mutations to decipher. Forcing herself to think of the work at hand she slid back into the denim shorts and walked to the recreation room. The only room that seemed cool enough to work in. She'd forget about him and do her work, nothing would happen. He just didn't like her that way. She had to accept that fact, maybe not having the feeling he didn't even realize what he did to her. Maybe he had never made love so he didn't know how to? Maybe carnal knowledge didn't interest him, maybe there was something wrong with him after all? Maybe he really was a monk. So why did her body bother to react acutely around him?

She found herself sitting on the couch, glaring at the instrument in her hand, trying to make sense out of the numbers that flashed before her eyes while visions of tanned arms penetrated into her mind.

"Workin'" she informed him irritably. Finally having gotten her senses back she had immersed herself in the analysis of the data. Not giving him any thought.

He said nothing and she could hear him open the fridge door and clatter with something. To then take the stairs in fast strides. He was gone before she had a chance to react. "Oh hi yourself", she muttered, "up to drown yourself in some veterinary issue? Why the hell do I even care?"

She continued comparing the database and the new data, absorbed by the multitude, the irritation making her more concentrated. More accurate. Maybe there was something good about sexual frustration after all?

She had no idea how she had been going at it, the numbers flicking fast before her eyes, the quick movements making her senses ready to react on the cues as they rapidly altered, rapidly enough to demand all her attention.

Surprised she turned to watch him standing in the doorway. Damp from a shower. The shirt not buttoned, hanging loosely around him. Barefoot and smiling he stood at the door.

She just looked at him, unwilling to stop when she was doing so well. But as always his voice penetrated all other stimuli in the surroundings, calling her attention, like a bell for the Pavlovian dogs.

Walking up to her with that smile he crouched before her where she sat on the couch. "I want you to close your eyes Lou."

He held one hand cupped and she couldn't see what was in it. The other resting on her thigh. The warmth giving her goose bumps.

"Just close your eyes, I'll let you taste something few people have tasted in their lives."

Oh yeah, kiss me, take me, do anything with me, just let me have a taste of you! Her thoughts immediately sank to the level of pure lust and craving. But instead of begging him she obediently closed her eyes. His hand left her thigh and she almost cursed. Then she felt something between her lips and the sweet smell had her open her eyes.

She looked into his cupped hand. Wild strawberries, warmed by the sun and his hand. She opened her mouth and let him feed her with the berries. The sweet taste of the wild unbridled nature filling her senses. She tasted the offerings with eyes half closed. "Oh God, Kid, I've never tasted anything like this."

"The first sweet wild strawberries. Told'ya you'd like the surprise, I'll show you where to find them. You'll have more later on." His hand had sunken back to her thigh and he lifted the hand with the berries left closer to her. Offering them to her. She gripped his wrist and took the gathered berries with her lips, touching his palm as she did. Kid's breath quickened and she chased the last berry with the tip of her tongue. Across his palm to the crease of his index and long finger. Then she stopped and looked at him.

His eyes were darkened, his gaze on her. Picking the last berry from his palm she fed him with it. Her fingertips resting on the soft lips, waiting. Nervously she wetted her own lips, not able to distract her gaze from him. The memories of their first kiss raging in her.

"Lou," he whispered as he rose to stand on his knees before her and drew her into his lap. Slowly. His gaze on hers, deepblue meeting smoldering brown, like negative and positive attracting each other due to natural law. His hand on the small of her back, the heat radiating through her thin shirt when he moved her close to him. Her hands fell from his lips to grab the collar of his shirt, to then entwine around him. His lips on hers, soft but demanding, wanting more and needing to know if she wanted to give him what he was asking for. There was not a clear thought in her mind as she answered the kiss, expressing all the longing she had nurtured, the months of need bottled up deep inside her finally finding an outlet. Finally stilling the dream.

They found themselves on the floor, his hands under her shirt. Exploring her and arousing her further. The palms of her hands wandering on his strong back, fingers exploring him, pressing him to her as his lips and hands ignited fires throughout her and heightened her senses to overload. Lips tracing his hot skin, suckling it, always wanting more. She moaned as his lips softly trailed her neck from the ear to the collarbone, his hands on her hips wandering down under the waistband of her shorts. Lifting her hips she helped him pull them off while her own fingers started working on his trouser buttons.

Finally getting her completely naked before him he sat up and looked down her body, fingers following his gaze and lips caressing her as he explored her fully. Lou still fought his shirt and grunted when he withdrew from her, her skin still longing for his heat. He kissed her from her knees to her lips, licking her erect nipples on the way up, letting his tongue gently roll to then close his lips around her hardened ripeness. Making her squirm under him while he suckled gently, sending the quivering thundering through her, his hands now in her hair. Kissing her close to the brink, his erection teasing her thigh. While his hands alternated between soft and demanding caresses she moaned his name and drew his face to the crook of her neck, she wanted him close, close enough to enter her completely. Moans left her lips as she bolted under him, grounding her hips to his, desperate for him to finally enter her.

His lips pressed to the sensitive area under her ear he groaned her name; "Lou..." Sending the vibrations of his voice right through her.

"Oh God, Kid, you can't do this to me!" Unbelieving she felt the weight of his body leave her and she cracked her eyes open. There was no way in hell he would get away with this. He bowed to kiss her abdomen and her hips rose to his lips. He just couldn't take her to this point and then leave! Entwining her hands in his curls she gazed into his eyes, wanting to know if it was possible to misread another human being to this extent? What was he trying to do to her? His eyes half closed, his lips opened and he scooted over and leaned in to kiss her once more. She sobbed, totally bewildered, why was he doing this to her?

"I'll make love to you," he moaned close to her lips, "there's a difference, Lou." Tracing her lips with the tip of his tongue before he kissed her fully. She had to close her eyes as his tongue chastily danced with hers, to then become more intense and exploring. The soft velvety touch of him having her moan, sensing his passion mingle with her own. The kiss again bringing her close to the peak, so close she had to hold back. Then she did what she never had done before in her life and never thought she'd do. She begged a man to take her. Kid pushed his knee between her legs and shifted part of his weight onto her. Locking gaze with hers he pushed himself slightly inside of her. Just to open her for him. Her eyes closed and she threw her head back to be able to push up to him. She felt the spasm beginning at her center and answered his slow push, taking more of him inside. He stopped pushing and she whined, her hips searching for him to enter her fully. Holding her breath as he finally slowly merged with her, expanding her bit by bit. Not yet fully inside he rubbed against her, a deep abandoned growl escaping him. That was all it took, and the spasm was almost painful as it came to claim her. Her heartbeat rising she had to hold her breath and cling to him as her body tensed while every muscle in her reacted to him inside of her.

"That's right girl, come for me," he whispered into her ear and she continued contracting while he thrust his full length inside her. Stretching her to the edge of discomfort, making her gasp for air at the intensity of the shivers running through her as she came. He continued soothing her burning need with slow thrusts as it exploded fulfilled around him and she screamed with her head tilted back.

"You okay, honey?" He asked with his lips moving against the tender skin on her shoulder. Waiting for her, watching her face intently as she slowly emerged from the aftermath of the orgasm. Her eyes half-closed, her vision blurred she looked back at him, catching his eyes as he still moved inside of her, deliciously slow, not even fully inside. Her hips jerked at the sensation, needing more of him inside. He smiled at her, kissing her front. "Want me to take it slower?" His voice a rumble of withheld passion as he spoke.

He chuckled and stilled his movements, to almost nonexistent, gazing into her eyes he shook his head at her expression. Lou reached down to grab him and push him further inside her. Turning him to land fully on top of her she started to move her hips again, her hunger still burning. Resting on his elbows he started thrusting deep inside her. Their bodies meeting rhythmically. His hands in her hair and lips nibbling her neck, ear and lips. Whispered words of passion. With languid slow strokes he loved her and Lou realized what he meant. There was no hurry, no rush for completion. He made love to her, giving his desire to her, needing to feel hers for him. Tenderness. Love. Passion. Nobody had given all that to her before, all at once, in every stroke. And she reveled in the love in his eyes as she looked into the deepening blue, captured by his gaze and the need within.

Her eyes brimmed with tears at his gentle lovemaking, a steady rhythm that slowly increased her desire until she again curved her back and whined. Bringing her to the plateau and holding her there, securely, the brink just a heartbeat away. Never before had she been with somebody she wanted to give everything to, she didn't need to have him any longer. Now she wanted to give him. All that he gave her. Her hands running down along his flanks, resting for a while on the thrusting hips, a moan escaping her as he shuddered under her hands. His masculine scent enveloping her, sending her legs trembling. Her arms encircled his trim waist and she buried her nose in his hair, keeping his face to hers as she kissed him wetly. Her hands wandering to touch every part of his body as their lips locked into the wild kiss.

"Kid," she groaned as he moaned into her mouth and broke the kiss. His thrusts getting deeper and more rapid, penetrating her fully. Her lips nibbling at his torso, answering his soft sounds of love. The palms of her feet caressing his calves, in rhythm with her hips' movements. She was unbearably close and had to close her eyes. Her breath coming in shuddering gasps for air, the tension in her body making her answer his thrusts with breathless sounds of ecstacy. Her fingers hungrily clasping his hips. She would come if she looked at him and now it was more important that he came with her. That he released inside of her. When his movements got slower and harder and his muscles tensed as he neared the peak she squeezed hard around him, fully knowing it would make her come right away.

"Oh God, Lou." His hot breath on her ear and his hands grabbing her buttocks, thrusts deep inside her to reach the bottom of both their craving.

She released around him with a long lingering whimper. Her body jerking as the orgasm rushed through her in forceful waves of quivering completion. Rejoicing in his eruptions inside of her. Answering her spasms at the exact 0,8 seconds rhythm he continued pushing into her with a low groan at the release of the pressure inside him. Mumbling he drew her onto him and turned with her nestled into his arms, collapsing to the floor. The blood pumping in him blinding him momentarily.

Lou lay her head on the heaving chest and enjoyed his completion as much as her own. Fingers entwining in his hair as she lay on top of him, still reeling from the emotions he sent rushing through her, the orgasm still echoing in her, like soft whispers of the storm. Moaning as one last wave ripped through her. The intensity of her own feelings scaring her at first, then turning to a warmth spreading throughout her as Kid's hands settled on her back and he hugged her close to him and buried his face in her hair. A long shivering exhale escaping him, filled with amazement and wonder.

Lou smiled against the soft curls on his chest, tenderness invading her as she relaxed fully on top of him. Burying her nose in the crook of his neck.

"I see what you mean," she told him after she found her breath. She had fantasized about this for so long, day-dreaming about the two of them, making wild passionate love. But now she realized the reality was much more than she ever had dreamed about. So much more involved. He was there under her, his chest heaving, his breath fanning her hair, the sound of his raspy breath, all mingling into her mind at once, demanding her full attention. Rapturing her within.

She wanted to stay here forever, resting on him, touching and smelling him. That scent that touched her so deeply, forcing her to bury her nose in the hollow of his neck and breathe him in. The most powerful aphrodisiac in the world, the scent of someone you love. This was so very different from anything she had experienced before. Having him hadn't sated her like she thought it would. It made her crave more of him, it made her crave his soul too. And her need scared her, it should be easy - just a sexual act, nothing to it. But there was something else, something so big, yet fragile, it took her breath away. This must be what all them books talk about! But is it real? She raised her head from his neck and looked at him.

"How about your bed?" He smiled at her, his breath still uneven. His index finger following the lines of her ear.

She had to laugh at his wisecrack, giggling softly she sank back onto him, shaking her head. "No Kid, I mean..."

"I know Lou," he hummed and rose to a sitting position, arranging her to sit in his lap. Her thighs around his hips as he drew his knees up and rested her to sit entwining him. "We'll have to tell them now Lou, I love you and I don't wanna hide it any longer. I can't hide it any longer, I don't care what happens. I want to be with you."

"Kid, we just...." She had to stop and chuckle anew as he threw her a warning glance, "made love...nobody needs to know. It doesn't have to mean that all this will be over with. It doesn't necessarily have to change anything."

Kid cupped her face into his hands, leaning toward her he made her rest up against his thighs. "Lou sweetie, this changed everything for me. 'It' means a lot to me, it's not just something I do for leisurely activity. I made love with you Lou, sweet incredible love, and that changes everything. It changes who you and I are, it changes who I am. I love you Lou and I want to tell the world about it."

Her heart stopped at his declaration of love. Searching his eyes she read the sincerity in the deepblue. The depth of his feeling shining through. Her hands rested on his chest, following the outlines of the muscles. "I want you Kid, I wanted from the first day I think. Can we just wait for a while? Kind of warm them up to the knowledge? Not to shock them."

"Sweetie, I don't think there's nobody that hasn't seen it already. You know that lust can be picked in a simple test. I think they know already."

"Lust, Kid" she smiled back at him, "not love. I don't think they care if attraction occurs, it's the love part that goes against the contract. You shouldn't be saying things like that. You know, 'treat everybody equal' and so on. Let's just wait a while and see what happens, promise?"

"You're gonna kill me Lou, I don't know if I can do this again, all this waiting. I wanna sleep with you and wake up with you. Don't feel like sneaking around and hiding. I want to be able to take your hand and walk through town, letting everybody see that we belong."

"Just for a while," she leaned in to kiss his lips, blowing hot air on them, glancing up at him before she opened hers and stuck her tongue out to meet with his. Kid moaned as their tongues met, Lou let her fingers caress his still erect nipples. Lust shooting right through her at the sensation of him. Then she closed her eyes to savor the kiss. It instantly awakened the quivering inside her, the bottomless craving she felt for him, the heat building within her again. Kissing until her juices wetted his thighs and his erection pulsated against her buttocks. Whimpering softly she withdrew from his lips. "We have to do something about this," she whined.

The woke at the first light. Immediately realizing she was alone in the bed. It felt wrong. "Kid?" she called out into the room, but she knew from the instance she woke that he was no longer there. She stretched her body out to cover the bed, smiling as her body reminded her of the intense night it had been through. The raindrops clattered against the window, the darkness lingering in the air. There had been a storm both outside and in her last night. Emotions she had never truly explored before had been awaked in her. It was so different from anything she had experienced before, his body answering her call, hers answering his. Where could he be? She still needed him. Closing her eyes to remember him her body reacted instantaneously and she moaned. Recalling the vision of his strong lean body reacting to her she shuddered. "Oh God," she whispered as the tension begun to build at the simple act of a thought crossing her mind. The door closed downstairs and she jerked into a sitting position. Then the sound of his footsteps on the stairs calmed her. Sinking back to the bed she waited for him. Smiling she watched as he opened the door and tried to sneak in without waking her. Shedding his wet clothes as he approached the bed. A tenderness took over while she watched him. She extended a hand to lay it on his back as he seated himself on the edge of the bed and struggled to get the pants off. "Where were you?"

Reaching out for him she pouted her lips, "you leaving me woke me up." Realizing how cold and wet he was spurred her into action. "Oh God Kid, you're cold! Get under the covers. Went to feed the animals?"

She smiled at him as she covered him up and nested her legs and arms around him to share her warmth with him. "Got that one right."

Kissing his exposed shoulder she hugged him close. The need to protect him surprising her. She still couldn't get used to the strong emotions he stirred up in her. Emotions she never knew she had in her surfacing while with him.

He eased her onto him. "I'll get warmer sooner if you kiss me," he teased. His eyes glittering, the color darkening.

He laughed softly and she rested her head on his chest and joined in his chuckle. Loving the effect she had on him.

"You know you already did that, Louise," he chuckled, kissing her ear. "I'm far past overheated already. Any remedy?"

Silently she raised her head to place kisses down his chest. She would never get enough of him and she knew he knew it. Biting him softly as she trailed down she smiled at his hands finding her hips. Listening to his quickening breath she continued down his chest and kissed him till his hips rose reflexively. She lifted her eyes to watch him, his eyes searching for hers. A soft smile on the lips, the heat back in his eyes. For a moment she drowned in his eyes, stilling herself to look into his soul. The intensity having her shudder, this man was different, he was not easy to either fool or play around with. He knew what he wanted and he had claimed her. Not by any coercive actions, just by looking into her eyes. By asking her to be his. He didn't just see her naked body, he was looking at her naked soul. "Kid, " she moaned scooting up to him to let their lips meet. Pausing before losing herself into him again she answered the question. "I'm your remedy."

Their lips met softly at first. Soft as the morning dew. Then it deepened and grew, like the storm outside, relentlessly dragging them into the thunderous beating of hearts in consuming passion.

This time Lou concentrated on fully exploring the man who had her heart beating wildly, touching him till he glowed under her caresses. Transmitting the fire to her, making her shiver breathlessly, needing him, heart swelling with love for him. Prolonging the suspense until she couldn't take it any longer and sank onto him. Taking him with her to the brink. Flashes shooting through her as she came, calling his name, having him follow her blindly.

|Prologue||Chapter 1||Chapter 2||Chapter 3||Chapter 4||Chapter 5||Chapter 6||Chapter 7||Chapter 8||Chapter 9||Chapter 10|
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