Digging in with his fingers, he got closer and closer to the end point - and it was the same with No'One. The sounds she was making, the incredible moans, her gorgeous scent rising up, her braid slapping -
Abruptly, he slowed down and snagged the tie that secured the plait of her hair, ripping it off and freeing the lengths. Shaking the thick waves out of their confines, he drew them over her shoulder and his own, blanketing them both.
Something about that undoing led to his own undoing: Two pumps later and his body pitched off its ledge, the release taking over everything until he cursed on an explosive breath.
Careening through the pleasure, he squeezed her hard and put his face into all that blond, breathing in, smelling the delicate shampoo that she used. Shit, the scent of her cranked him even higher, until his orgasm abruptly became the rough-and-tumble kind, racking his body, throwing his balance out of whack, rendering him temporarily blind.
It must have been the same for her - from a distance, he heard her call out his name as she locked her legs around his hips, melding them together.
Incredible. Absolutely incredible. And he rode out the pleasure for as long as it lasted - on both sides. When he finally stilled, No'One's head flopped onto his shoulder, her body collapsing against his chest, her lovely flesh going loose as her lovely hair.
Unbidden, one of his hands found her spine and followed it upward to the base of her neck. As his breathing eased, he just. . . held her.
Before he knew it, he was rocking them both from side to side. She weighed next to nothing in his powerful arms, and he had the sense that he could have kept them linked and against each other. . . forever.
Eventually, she whispered, "I must be getting heavy. "
"Not at all. "
"You're very strong. "
Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane parked on its roof.
"I should get you cleaned up," he said.
"What ever for?"
Okay, that was sexy. And it made him want to do. . . other things to her. All kinds of things.
Over her shoulder, he eyed the pool, and thought efficiency was actually the mother of invention.
"How about we take a dip?"
No'One lifted her head. "I could stay like this. . . "
"Forever?"
"Yes. " Her eyes were low-lidded and glowing in the blue-green light. "Forever. "
As he stared at her, he thought. . . she was so alive. Her cheeks flushed, her lips swollen from his being all over her, her hair lush and a little wild. She was vital and hot and -
He started to laugh.
Oh, for fuck's sake, he had no idea why - there was nothing funny about anything, but suddenly he was laughing like a lunatic.
"Sorry," he managed. "I don't know what the problem is. "
"I don't care. " She beamed at him, showing her delicate fangs and her even, white teeth. "It's the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. "
Caught up in an impulse he didn't understand, he let out a whoop and took a lunge in the direction of the pool, throwing out a long stride, then another, then a third. With a mighty leap, he sent them both flying into the still, aquamarine light source.
They landed in the warm water as one, soft, invisible arms gathering them into a temperate cushion, and insulating them from gravity's heavy-handed pull, sparing them both any kind of hard landing.
As his head went under, he found her mouth and claimed it, kissing her under the surface as he planted his feet and pushed up so that they found the air. . . .
In the process, his cock found her core again.
She was right there with him, linking those legs of hers around his hips once more, echoing his rhythm, kissing him back. And it was good. It was. . . right.