Agent finds a Warrior (10 page)

I watched fondly as the children were led
away to be occupied and blessed even as they innocently delighted
in the presence of their Maker.

I turned my head to Maria to find her
smiling at me.

“Zora?” I asked inquiringly.

“My real name.”

“I like it. It sounds exotic and beautiful
just like you.”

Her smile became radiant. I so wanted to
taste the lips that formed her smiles!

I heard a sound then that brought my focus
elsewhere and pursing my lips regretfully I asked, “Have you ever
helped to deliver a baby before Zora?”

“No can’t say that I have.”

“Well now’s your time to learn. Come along
my love. I’ll kiss you later!”

She smiled and followed along as I’d never
let go of her hand.

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Flint rushed into the bedroom to see Lisa
sitting on the edge of the bed. She looked up sheepishly, “You know
how I’ve been procrastinating about putting a mattress cover on?
Well now we’ll need a new mattress because my water broke all over
it.”

Flint blinked a couple of times in rapid
succession before saying, “I’ll get the car!”

“Honey I don’t think there’s time for that.”
Lisa said.

I walked into the room and came around to
Lisa rolling up my sleeves as I did so.

Her eyebrows rose dramatically, “You’re not
serious!”

I smiled charmingly in response.

“You’ve done this before?” She asked
suspiciously.

“Many times. Now lie back and try to get
comfortable so I can examine how far along you are.”

Lisa did so reluctantly.

“Lisa you’re fully dilated and effaced.” I
said encouragingly after a few moments.

Lisa moaned in relief at the thought of a
quick and easy delivery and said, “Thank God for
proglastidine!”

“What’s proglastidine?” Zora asked
innocently.

Flint’s face turned darker even as Lisa
snickered out, “Don’t worry honey I’m sure you’ll find out first
hand soon enough. Elon will have that flat belly of yours swelling
out with child before you know it.”

Zora’s face immediately turned ten shades of
red at Lisa’s ribald comment and I saw Flint mouth out, “I’m
sorry!” to Zora who looked like she just wanted to leave the room,
but obediently stayed helping me.

There was a lot about thought projection
that I hadn’t shared with Zora mainly because I liked hearing her
sexy voice too much, but now I broke my silence of the mind and
spoke directly into her consciousness, “Sorry about that Zora.”

Zora’s head jerked slightly and she looked
at me in question and I explained what was going on.

“Childbirth has different phases with
different clues to tell you which one the woman is in at the time.
In the phase right before birth the woman goes through an
uninhibited phase where she says things she wouldn’t normally and
often starts taking her clothes off.”

Just then Lisa started taking her shirt off
and Zora’s eyes widened in response.

I felt Zora tentatively invade my mind with
her thoughts, “You really know your stuff! What can I do to
help?”

“Just watch and learn. There will likely be
another opportunity in the future to help deliver a baby.”

Her thoughts were back in the my
consciousness, “Maybe it will be ours.”

I blinked and glanced at her abruptly. Darn,
I hadn’t even gotten the chance to kiss her yet and she was already
talking about having my babies!

“I was sort of figuring on keeping you to
myself for a while.” I admitted honestly to which she just
smiled.

I refocused on Lisa and spoke out loud,
“Lisa soon you’ll feel the urge to push and that’s okay. You push
as hard as you want to.”

“I’m definitely feeling that urge right
now!”

“Okay let’s get you into a better position
then. Giving birth flat on your back is the worst and hardest
position to ever try to give birth in.”

“What! I’ve had two babies and the doctors
never told me that!”

“That’s because modern doctors like to be
sitting comfortablely on a stool ready to involve themselves in the
process of childbirth needlessly, because they see the presence of
themselves as more important to the process than anything else,
when in reality what really would be for the best was if the female
body was allowed to do what it was perfectly created to do.”

“You’re doing all my deliveries from now on
Elon! So help me I’m going to murder those doctors!”

“Lisa put that emotion into accomplishing
something and push!”

Ten minutes later a strapping boy was born,
and thirty five minutes later a little girl came out just as
healthy. Lisa was very proud and held both of them in her arms
overcome with emotion.

Looking up to her husband she said, “Elon
James and Maria Candace?”

Both Zora and I started to object, but Flint
said, “It’s done.” And that was that.

I slipped away when it was safe to, leaving
mother and father alone to appreciate the new life that had been
born into the world this day. I felt like I was about to pass out
because I was so tired.

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Zora watched Elon go and started to follow,
but Lisa caught her hand. Zora looked down to see Lisa blushing,
“I’m sorry about what I said earlier! It was terribly crude of
me.”

Zora smiled and shrugged before leaning
closer and whispering so as not to wake the babies or for Flint to
hear, “It was close enough to the truth anyway most likely.”

Lisa chuckled knowingly before her face went
suddenly serious, “You’re a very lucky girl Maria to have him.”

Zora glanced back the way Elon had just
gone, “That is being made very clear to me.”

She left the new mom and her devoted husband
then to fawn over their new babies. She herself was on the point of
dropping to the floor in exhaustion.

Zora stepped into the bedroom that she had
shared with Elon only to see him sprawled across the bed fast
asleep. She pulled a blanket out and spread it over top of Elon’s
sprawled out form.

He hadn’t left much room, but Zora managed
to slip onto the edge of the bed and find enough space to keep from
falling off. She tucked herself under the blanket careful not to
awaken Elon, as she draped his widespread arm across her hip.

She lay there on her side facing Elon
watching him as he slept deeply. It was an overwhelming desire she
had to fight against not to reach out and touch his face. She
wanted to touch him. All of him.

His lips were full and inviting and she had
to close her eyes against the urge to kiss him in his sleep. She
was so ready for this man’s possession of her.

She’d never thought this day would come that
she would ever want much less crave one man’s touch, but she
did.

She drifted off to sleep as both of them
slept through the early hours of the day in a deeply peaceful rest
as a heavenly calm settled over them for a job well done.

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I enjoyed driving. The modern car was
definitely one of my most favored inventions to come along down
through the years. Who didn’t like to go fast and feel a precision
instrument respond intuitively beneath you to your every command
and request for more power?

It had been awfully nice of Lisa to loan us
the car. The top of the convertible was down and the afternoon sun
was warm and for the first time in my life I had a hot date.

My eyes drifted over to Zora and took in the
vision that she was. Her black hair gusted out behind her as the
wind caught it. She lounged in her seat looking completely at ease
in my company. It was a seductive sight to behold.

She’d unbuttoned the top several buttons of
her blouse and she was giving me quite a view and I knew it was
entirely intentional on her part. She was telling me she was ready
for more and I wasn’t going to disappoint her, but first we would
have one last date together.

It had been beyond hard to resist taking
advantage of her, when I had woken up around lunch time to find her
snuggled up against me in the bed. I had resisted the temptation of
her then though and caused what felt like bodily harm to myself in
the process.

I couldn’t go on much longer denying myself
though.

Each new side road we came across was a
temptation to divert down and find a place to park put the
convertible’s cover back up and tear her clothes off. I gripped the
wheel hard. Tonight! Tonight she would be mine.

She turned her head to me and smiled, “How
long will it be before we reach wherever your taking me.”

My grip on the wheel tightened. Did she have
any idea what that sounded like?

I glanced over to her only to find that her
eyes were laughing at me. Again I was reminded of the fact that
this was a completely different side of this woman that I had never
seen, while she had worked for the Agency.

“You’re cruel!” I said shaking my head as I
shifted in my seat uncomfortably.

I’d expected her to laugh at her
accomplishment of making me cry uncle, but her answer wasn’t what I
had expected.

“I’m sorry!”

My gaze darted over to her to see her
buttoning up her shirt.

My hand closed over top of hers, “Please
don’t take my view away. I’ve waited a long time for the privilege
to enjoy such a view and while it and you are utterly tormenting to
me I wouldn’t want it any other way.”

I let my hand fall away and her fingers
re-undid the buttons only she went several buttons down
farther.

I glanced away from the sight that she had
afforded me and asked, “What’s changed about you Zora? All the
years that I’ve known of you since you were at the Agency you’ve
gone around with this big invisible sign plastered to you that
read, ‘Men beware, if you so much as touch me I’ll nail your family
jewels to the wall and use the rest of you for target
practice’.”

I glanced over to her to see her biting her
full lower lip tellingly.

She tried to bite back a wry smile before
asking, “It was that bad?”

“It was that bad.” I affirmed.

She was the one to look away this time,
while I continued to enjoy the view. Her words though brought me
back to sharply focus on her face, “I saw things when I was a young
girl that no one should ever see. Things done by men to women. It
scared me for a long time. Still does actually. It was a good thing
in many ways when I found the Agency. The Agency exposed me to
truly good men like Chantry and Flint. They helped to redefine what
it was to be a male and still be an entirely noble individual.
You’re both caring and noble like they are. I know you won’t ever
hurt me. I trust you like I have few individuals in my life. I even
desire you, which is a miracle for me.”

Her head spun to me and she quickly added,
“I don’t mean that to sound as if you’re not desirable! It’s
just……”

“I know what you meant.” I said cutting in
gently.

“Zora I’ll never do anything to disappoint
the confidence that you’ve put in me as a man of character. I may
make you mad from time to time, but I’ll never betray your
trust.”

“I know.” She said with feeling.

There was a question that needed to be
asked, “Going along with the childhood situations that you
mentioned I need to ask if you were abused as well? I only ask that
because I don’t want to re-create bad memories for you in terms of
how we take are relationship into a more intimate level.”

“No I wasn’t. You’ll be the first man that
I’ve ever been with.”

I glanced over to her and lifted my hand up
to her face. I stroked a finger down her cheek and over to her
lower lip, which I caressed slowly, “It will be a first for both of
us then.”

She swallowed and her lips moved beneath my
finger as she said, “I’m honored.”

I blinked. It was an unbelievable feeling to
experience the unbelievable intimacy that I already shared with
this woman past any realm of fleshly desire.

I refocused on my driving. I’d never had a
harder time managing to keep a vehicle within the lines not to
mention the speed limit.

Zora shifted in her seat and before I knew
it she was sitting up against me.

I swallowed and glanced to her face which
was very near only to hear her say, “I like being with you. Would
you put your arm around me?”

My one arm came away from the steering wheel
and folded around her shoulders, until my hand rested against her
far side. The feel of her trustingly within the enclosure of my arm
was a new emotional high in my life. The feel of her was amazing,
but it was the knowledge that she liked being where she was that
made me never want this moment to stop.

Her head was tilted back as it rested
against my shoulder and she was smiling at me.

I wished I could smile back at her for truly
she had made me happy, but I just felt to overcome by her.

I searched for something to say. Something
of value to return in exchange for what she was giving me.

Clearing my throat of the husky emotion I
was infused with I said “We should be in the city by early evening.
We can have a nice dinner and then I’ve procured an invitation to a
grand charity ball being held for a noble cause. There will be lots
of dancing involved. Does that sound of interest to you?”

She came away from my side to sit bolt
upright and I knew that I’d scored big time. Her face was tense
though as she said, “But I don’t have a dress!”

“I looked at your clothes before we left and
I had Lisa guess as to some measurements I wasn’t sure of. I called
ahead to a dress shop and they should have something for you by the
time we get into the city. We’ll go there first and let you try it
on and then we’ll go to dinner, while they make whatever
alterations to the dress that may be necessary. The ball doesn’t
start until 9 o’clock and it’s in the same hotel where we’ll be
staying so there’s plenty of time for you to get ready. The hotel
has someone standing by to help you with your hair and anything
else that you may need.”