No Other Love by Speer Flora

Author:Speer, Flora
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, series, futuristic romance, romance futuristic
Publisher: Flora Speer

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Still slightly disoriented and feeling a little dizzy, lulled into drowsy relaxation by the unfamiliar sensuous delights of warm water and perfumed soap, Merin thought it was appropriate that Herne should materialize before her while she was thinking of him. He looked just the way he had when she’d dreamed of him the first time.

Of course, he wasn’t really there. She was only dreaming again. He would take a step or two toward her, as he had done in her earlier dream, and then he would vanish. And since he wasn’t there, and no one but herself could possibly know, she ought to take advantage of the opportunity to study him. He was the only unclothed person she had seen since she was ten years old. She was unlikely ever to see anyone else undressed, real or imagined, because after this lovely dream was finished she would force herself into the most rigorous forms of Oressian discipline, so that she would never dream again. But for the moment, in this strange and unreal place…in this time out of all time….

He came toward her, as she had known he would, and even though it was only a dream, and she knew she could make herself wake up whenever she wanted, she began to tremble. But then he touched her. His hand brushed along her cheek and reached into her hair. She knew the touch of his hand on her face. She had felt it before. She had felt his kiss, too, so it was not surprising that she should dream of it again now. He gathered her into his arms, his flesh warm against hers, and she shuddered at the contact, half rousing from her dreamlike state, then sinking back into it. She did not want to face reality yet. Not yet, not until after he had kissed her.

“Merin.” His mouth was in her hair, at her throat, against her ear. “It’s you I want, only you.”

Overwhelmed by unfamiliar sensations, her inhibitions dangerously frayed by the lightheadedness that would not go away, Merin half fainted into Herne’s arms.

“Let me love you,” he whispered. “I’ve wanted you for so long.”

Her hands moved around his neck, her head rested on his shoulder. She knew by then that this was no dream, but she could dredge up no feeling of appalled horror, which would have been the appropriate Oressian reaction to what was happening. All she knew was that she wanted Herne to go on holding her.

“Please,” she whispered into his neck, “please kiss me.”

Herne lifted her face, holding her so they were almost mouth to mouth.

“Hold me close.” Her voice was a breath, even lower than a whisper. “Let me feel all of you against me for just a moment. When I’m alone again I want to be able to remember you.”

She watched the rugged harshness of his face soften into tenderness. He pulled her closer, his arms holding her gently but firmly. Merin trembled under the touch she had ached to know, yet had for so long refused to admit wanting.

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