Her body went limp as he pulled back, surveying the results of his work. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes still rolled back in her head as she lay collapsed upon the stones. If not for her panting breath, he would have been afraid he killed her with pleasure.
Slowly, she leaned up on one elbow and looked at him. “I think it's your turn,” she whispered.
He pulled himself out of the water and hurried to his pants. He pulled out the condom and slipped it on, turning to see she was still laying on the ground and smiling at him. She spread her legs, inviting him in.
She was warmer than the hot-spring and felt better than water ever could. Her legs wrapped around him and she moaned, arching her back to take him further into her. Every thrust was better than the last.
She became animated beneath him, rocking her hips and writhing to meet him. The animal in him took over, his brain fading into primal need. He wanted to fill her. To claim her.
Their mouths crashed together and the sticky wet of their warm skin and the water only added to the sensations beginning to overpower him. He was aware of only his body and how well she fit to him. It was as if she were made for him and him alone.
“Nathan,” she gasped, her voice low and full of longing. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks flushed.
He lost it when she said his name. The last of his self control was gone. She undid him and he shattered into her, losing himself to her completely. His body dove deep, searching to complete himself and finding that he could. She in turn rose to meet him, her body responding to his in kind.
They lay breathless and panting, warmed by the heat lamp. He could feel wet raindrops from the melted snowflakes land on his back, but her heat beneath him kept him warm. Slowly, he rose, looking down at the most beautiful woman he
'd ever met.
She smiled up at him and he kissed her. It was sweet compared to the frantic urgency of just a few moments prior. They didn't have to say a word. He pulled her to sitting, wrapping her up in his arms for a moment before they slid back into the water.
Snow fell all around him as he became fairly sure he had died and gone to heaven.
Chapter 19
Holly
She floated in the warm water, turning slightly as the current moved through the pool. Hot water flowed from the base of the mountain into the various pools. It then collected and made its way to the main pool before disappearing into a mountain stream. The effect was that there was always a slight current through the pools, keeping the clean water flowing.
She felt ridiculously light and happy. Beside her, Nathan floated as well, their bodies touching, then floating apart, then touching again. They floated in comfortable silence. Holly remembered her parents having the same kind of easy silence as they read together.
Just being in the same space made them happy. They didn’t have to talk or be funny. They didn’t have to perform. Just the act of existing was enough to make the other content. She’d never understood just how wonderfully peaceful it could be until now.
A large snowflake melted directly on her forehead and the water ran into her eyes. That was the only thing that affected her comfort. She sighed, setting her feet on the pebbly bottom of the pond and maneuvered into an upright position. Her wet hair stuck to her head until her shoulders where it began floating on the top of the water.
She looked up. The snow was slowing down. Bits of blue sky were visible. The flakes didn’t fall as quickly now, and she was sure she could hear the hum of snowplows, even if they were only in her mind. Her time here was almost up.
She couldn’t stay here in this little piece of heaven, no matter how much she wanted to. Eventually she had to go back home to her life. There were things that she couldn’t abandon. Her father, her students, the bookstore, the town. Tomorrow, they would all have to come back.
She wondered what Nathan’s life would go back to. Probably lots of meetings. Limousines. Expensive meals, but no time to eat them. To be a CEO was to be constantly working.
She knew the former owner of ECT, and George Element was constantly busy. It was a big reason why he sold the company to Paradigm. He was tired of the work and the energy required to keep everything running. She could only imagine what Nathan’s job must be like if a smaller company was as difficult as George described.
She frowned. She wanted to spend more time with Nathan, how could she not, but how would she manage to fit into his life? George had been married and divorced twice in the past five years due to his job. He was never home, and the few times that he was, he was usually on his phone.
Nathan lived in San Francisco. She lived in Devonsville, CO. While Nathan probably had a private jet, she didn’t. She barely had a savings account where he had to have multiple banks store his money. He was purchasing the company that would forever change her town, and not necessarily for the better.
The more she thought about it, the more it felt like this was a magical weekend in time where they could be together. After this, it probably wouldn’t work. They were just too different.
“You look like you’re thinking deep thoughts,” Nathan said. She turned to see that he too had sat up. His dark hair steamed with heat from the water as he settled himself against a rock. She felt like she could look at him all day.
“Just thinking.”
“A dangerous pastime,” he replied.
“I know.” She giggled. “You look like you’ve been thinking, too.”
“Well, it did take some time for the blood to come back up to my brain, but yes,” he smiled. She liked the way his eyes softened when he looked at her. His face had a hardness, but it disappeared whenever he focused on her. She liked that.