"My associates,...they want you dead,... and won't be satified until you are,... and I simply cannot allow that. I want to be near until they try for their final strike and am able to take out those who want you gone. You see, I didn't Śneed' you for the Washington job,... I just wanted you there. I wanted you. But, there are those who now consider you dangerous. A threat to their interests as it were, and I want to prevent your Śtermination'. " He stopped and looked at her to see if she was taking this in. Her expression was guarded, no emotion was crossing her face. She had heard some pretty wild stories in her day. This just about took the cake, but, she had become very good at hiding it. "Until I can do this, I want to be with you, to help you, and....to be near you." This last was said with plenty of emotion showing in Rock's usually passive face. Lily read desire, need, and raw pain in his eyes. Her better instincts told her to be wary, but she had to admit to herself that she wanted him too, and did want him near her if things should go bad. Her silence made him continue. He looked down, apparently facinated with the grout surrounding the tub. He was unable to meet her eyes as he began.
"I could have done things ten years ago that would have changed all of this. I could have taken back the disk you stole and just let you go and it would have all been over, but I just couldn't control my feelings for you. I'm so, so sorry Lily. It's all my fault, the sin rests in my soul, in my heart, and I'm so afraid that you will pay for my sin, I can't
leave."
Lily was moved by this last confession, and her mind whispered, see? He really wants you. You know you want him. But what about Daniel? her rational mind answered. What about him? The bitchy side argued. She felt so torn apart. Where was the answer? What to do? She closed her eyes and leaned her head back. She sat this way for a long time.
Finally Rock broke the silence and startled her into awareness again.
"Lily? ...I love you. I always have, and will until I die. I've never lied about that . Please, say something." She opened her eyes and looked at him. It was no longer in her will to refuse him. Her deep brown eyes looked bottomless, and she leaned forward to touch his face gently.
"I never stopped loving you." She confessed quietly. He closed his eyes as though her touch was a soothing balm. His own hand unconciously sought to support hers and covered it with his own, willing her not to stop touching him. His heart beat heavily within his chest. He opened them again and gazed at her to see trust, surrender, desire in her face. He again closed his eyes and pulled her hand to his lips and gently caressed her palm with a kiss. He kissed her wrist gently, touching his tongue to her pulse, and continued up her arm to her shoulder. Lily had closed her eyes again and her head was tilted back as she quietly basked in the touch of his lips on her skin. His mouth sought her neck and he gently kissed and sucked the tender skin there until Lily moaned softly. "Rock.." He needed no encouragement in this moment and indulged his long starved sensed with her silky skin, her intoxicating fragrance. He nibbled up to her sensitive earlobes and gently traced the out line of her delicate ears. Small kisses along her jawline brought thier mouths together in a devouring frenzy, each eager to taste... touch.... feel each other with a desperation of a man in the desert drinking water for the first time in days. Lily's hands involuntarily rose to hold his head there, to wind his hair through her fingers, not wanting to stop this dizzying bliss. Finally Rock broke this kiss, and whispered to her, "Not here, come with me..." Lily opened her eyes and nodded, at a loss for words. She stood up , their eyes never losing contact. Lily stepped from the bath, and garbed herself in her robe. They made their way down the hall, to his room,where she fell back upon his bed and their lips met again in passionate embrace. He finally came up for breath and looked at her face. She was flushed, breathing harshly, her lips bruised and red, trembling slightly. Her entire body
was awash in a fine trembling, and he drank this in. His own body was shaking, with fear, pleasure, and desire. But he wanted to take his time to rediscover her body, to give her pleasure. He pulled off his wet shirt revealing a well muscled chest covered with fine blond hair that trailed down his flat belly. She quivered and squirmed on the bed in anticipation. He reached for her, opened her robe at the waist and bent his head down and kissed her stomach all over, smiled at her squeals as he nipped at her sensitive sides. He covered all of her exposed flesh then came up to take her into his embrace again. She luxuriated in the feel of his flesh, hot, and manly, against her coolness. The feel of skin on skin sent her reeling. He kissed her until he could feel her impatience for him to kiss her elsewhere. He moved to her neck for a few more moments, gently, so gently. She remembered this from before, how careful he was not to leave any marks, but stoked the fires of her desire until she burned. He moved to her breasts and her breath caught in her throat as his hot, moist mouth covered one nipple, then the other. He kissed both breasts thoroughly, feeling their weight with his hands, kneading her tender flesh until she writhed beneath him. He moved downward again until he came to her waist. He looked up her body at her face, her eyes were open and watching him trustingly as he pulled her robe apart. He gave her a devilish grin and nipped her thigh with his lips. Lily closed her eyes and whimpered. Her body arched toward him, inviting him to continue. Rock could feel her fingers on his broad shoulders urging him on, and Rock kissed her hip bones, and across the soft lower belly. She wasn't sure she could stand the onslaught, and covered herself with her hands suddenly, feeling that she couldn't stand to have him touch her any lower or she would explode. He kissed each of her hands softly and gently pulled them away and down to the bed, where she grabbed the sheet and held handfuls of it tensely. He murmered to her about how beautiful she was, and how he had longed for this moment and she relaxed somewhat. He got off the bed and took off the rest of his clothes, revealing his naked form. Her gaze took in the evidence of his excitement and she closed her eyes again, waiting in shaking silence.
His weight on the bed made it dip and he crept up between her legs. "Shhhh," he whispered, and kissed each of her thighs. Lily took in several gasping breaths and willed herself to let go, and indulge in the experience. He moved up and pressed his knees against hers to encourage her thighs apart. She felt the silky warmth of his strong thighs and allowed her legs to be parted. He knelt down again and buried his face in her pubic hair, his warm breath tickling her, his soft lips touching her, caressing her, teasing her and she really tried to relax, but ended up giggling. His hands came up to stroke her belly and thighs and she did relax and his wandering lips went further south into her womanhood. As his tongue flicked out to touch and taste, her eyes flew wide open to look at the ceiling at this feeling. Her breath caught and it was all she could do to lay still. She squinched her eyes tightly shut and allowed him to continue. His hot, searing tongue explored all her folds and creases and finally settle on her throbbing center of pleasure.
Lily could no longer hold back and moaned and gasped as she gave herself over. Wave after wave of feeling washed over her, the tightness in her belly crescendoing. She cried out as it hit her, she dug her nails into his shoulders as she urged him up to kiss her and he responded. She tasted her own passion on his face and begged him in this moment,
"Please, Rock, take me...please?" He was all too happy to comply. He moved up and spread her thighs further with his own and eagerly sought and then found his goal with his now throbbing member, sinking deeply into her and she threw her head back with ecstasy as he entered her. She wrapped her legs around him and held him close to her as they reveled in their communion. He kissed her savagely, demandingly, and she complied with like abandon. He rested quietly within her for a moment, then began to move, slowly at first, but increasing in tempo as desire drove him on as if with spurs. She pulled him into her and arched her hips to encourage him, not that he needed it, and they moved fluidly together as if choreographed. Lily rolled her head from side to side, not willing to believe this was happening and in pure bliss. Thier breathing matched in tempo as they rushed to the brink of their pleasure. He finally exploded as she did and they floated back to earth, still intertwined, slowly stroking each other. Lily was awash in conflicting feelings and she cried a little, tears escaping her eyes. Tears of long held back feeling, and relief, and guilt. Rock kissed these tears, tasting thier saltiness, and he could feel her relief and guilt. He held her tenderly, not wanting this moment to end, but knowing in his gut that it would, and maybe for the last time. He kissed her gently now, stroked her hair, looked at her face. She turned her teary eyes his way and said, "I love you." He closed his eyes and tried to remember the moment, the way she said this, the feeling, forever. His thumbs stroked away the remaining tears on her face, and they kissed gently, slowly, enjoying the remaining embers of their lovemaking. He disengaged himself from her gently, and held her tightly, not wanting this moment to end. He pulled the covers over them and they fell asleep in each others embrace. Lily fell asleep without dreams, her dreams fulfilled that night, even though they may be damned in the morning. Rock held her sleeping form and with no one to see him, cried himself to sleep in her arms.