Dream Lover (29 page)

He kissed me, hard. “I thought I would be gone before morning’s light.” He set me away from him, searching my face. “So, you’re glad I’m here?”

I reached down to encircle his growing erection in my hand. “I’m as glad as you are,” I giggled. Then I turned serious. “Do you think you will get to stay?”

“I was told I had one night to reveal your secret heart, to get you to return my love.”

“I do love you.”

He frowned. “How is that possible after one night?”

I pressed against him, skin to skin, and nothing had ever felt more natural and right. “I have known you all my life,” I whispered. “I have always loved the
idea
of you. And now…” I rubbed my breasts against his chest, feeling his erection press between my thighs, “Now I get to love you with my body as well as my soul.”

“But I stole your dreams. I risked your life by loving you!” His voice was filled with anguish and I pressed my hand to his face to soothe him. “You bring my life into existence and I nearly killed you.”

“You didn’t steal my dreams, you revealed them. You didn’t risk my life, you brought me to life!” I cupped his jaw so that he would look at me and see the truth in my eyes. “I was so lonely,
Victor. I needed something only you could give me.”

He gathered me up in his arms and carried me to the bed, tumbling me down among the tangle of sheets. “We may never leave this room,” he growled, running a possessive hand from my neck, down between my breasts, to cup my mound.

I twisted and arched my back, pressing against his probing fingers. Just that fast, with a flick of his thumb across my clit, I was near orgasm. His wings stretched up and out, a canopy of blue-black feathers above us.

“We won’t be able to leave this room,” I said, my coherency fading fast as he slid one long finger inside my wetness. “Those wings of yours will be hard to hide.”

He chuckled. “I have a bit of…magic to show you, love.”

Despite my whimpered protests, he released me and turned around. I watched in open-mouthed shock as he folded his wings so that they tucked close to his body and molded smoothly to his back. In clothes, he would simply look like a well-built man with a broad, muscular back.

“Nice,” I said appreciatively, mostly so he would return to the task of making love to me. “We just won’t be able to go to the beach.”

“Ah, but I’m not done.”

And then, his wings quivered and flattened against his back until they looked simply like an ornate tattoo. I couldn’t help myself, I got to my knees and ran my hands over his back, trying to detect the feathers that only a moment previous had presented such a magnificent display. All I felt was his skin, the faint ridges of his wings seeming to be the marks of a tattooist’s ink.

I pressed a kiss between his shoulder blades and, like the magic he claimed, the wings returned, his feathers tickling my nose.

“My angel,” I said again.

“Yes, my love?”

“Come to bed,” I said. “Now.”

My angel did as I commanded. And then it was my turn.

DELILAH DEVLIN
(DelilahDevlin.com) is an author with a rapidly expanding reputation for writing deliciously edgy stories with complex characters, whether creating dark, erotically charged paranormal worlds or richly descriptive westerns that ring with authenticity.

 

JUSTINE ELYOT
has written numerous short stories for erotica and erotic romance publishers, as well as the full-length works
On Demand
,
The Business of Pleasure
and the novella
Competitive Nature
. She likes dark eroticism and light romance, and vice versa.

 

LUCY FELTHOUSE
(lucyfelthouse.co.uk) attended the University of Derby, where she studied creative writing. While there, she was dared to write an erotic story. It went down a storm and she’s never looked back. Lucy’s stories have been in anthologies including
Seriously Sexy 3; Ultimate Curves; Sex, Love and Valentines
and
I Kissed a Girl.

 

A. D. R. FORTE
(adrforte.com) is the author of erotic short fiction that appears in numerous anthologies, including
Fairy Tale Lust
. Her tales of erotic fantasy can be found in collections from Cleis Press and Circlet Press.

 

LANA FOX’s
(lanafox.com) erotica appears in a variety of books and magazines, including
Alison’s Wonderland
and the Cleis anthologies
Orgasmic: Erotica for Women
and
Passion: Erotic Romance for Women
.

 

SHANNA GERMAIN’s
(shannagermain.com) work about love, lust, and leviathans has appeared in places like
Alison’s Wonderland, Best American Erotica, Best Lesbian Romance, Fairy Tale Lust, Blood Fruit
, and more.

 

SACCHI GREEN
writes in western Massachusetts. Her stories have appeared in seven volumes of
Best Lesbian Erotica
and dozens of other books. She has edited or coedited six lesbian erotica anthologies, most recently
Girl Crazy, Lesbian Cowboys
(a Lambda Literary Award winner), and
Lesbian Lust
.

 

ERICKA HIATT
lives and writes in Silicon Valley with her husband, daughter, and her two and a half crazy dogs. She has published several technical works, as well as a number of short stories. This is her first, but definitely not her last, attempt at erotica.

 

VICTORIA JANSSEN
(victoriajanssen.com) is the author of
The Moonlight Mistress; The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover
and
The Duke and the Pirate Queen
.

 

KRISTINA LLOYD
(kristinalloyd.wordpress.com) is the author of three erotic novels including the controversial
Asking for
Trouble.
Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, and her novels have been translated into German, Dutch and Japanese. She has a master’s degree in Twentieth Century Literature.

 

NIKKI MAGENNIS
(nikkimagennis.blogspot.com) learned long ago that magic is best left to happen by itself. She lives in the wilds of Scotland with her enchanting family and a very pretty familiar. She has written two novels and many short stories.

 

MADELINE MOORE
([email protected]) has published countless sexy short stories and three erotic novels:
Wild Card, Amanda’s Young Men
and
Sarah’s Education.
In another guise, Madeline is a produced screenwriter, a crime novelist, and a writing tutor.

 

KATE PEARCE
graduated from the University College of Wales with an honors degree in history. She is a member of RWA and is published by Kensington Aphrodisia, NAL Signet Eclipse, Ellora’s Cave, Cleis Press, and Virgin Black Lace/Cheek.

 

Always one to welcome a dream lover,
CRAIG J. SORENSEN
(just-craig.blogspot.com) has been sharing his erotic visions with readers since 2006. His stories have appeared at numerous locations online as well as in print anthologies and magazines internationally.

 

ALANA NOËL VOTH’s
work has appeared in several anthologies including
Fairy Tale Lust; Best of the Best Gay Erotica, Volume 3
;
Oysters & Chocolate; Best American Erotica; Best Women’s Erotica
and the
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Volume 7
and
Volume 8.
She’s currently at work on a novel.

 

SASKIA WALKER
(saskiawalker.co.uk) is a British author whose short fiction appears in numerous anthologies. Her erotic novels include
Along for the Ride, Double Dare, Reckless, Rampant, Inescapable
, and
The Harlot.
Saskia lives in the north of England close to the windswept, inspirational Yorkshire moors, where she happily spends her days spinning yarns.

KRISTINA WRIGHT
(kristinawright.com) is an author, editor and college instructor. She is the editor of
Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women
and the forthcoming Cleis Press anthologies
Corsets and Clockworks
and
Best Erotic Romance 2012.
Kristina’s erotica and erotic romance fiction has appeared in over eighty print anthologies, including
With This Ring, I Thee Bed
;
Bedding Down: A Collection of Winter Erotica
;
Nice Girls, Naughty Sex
; three volumes of
Best Women’s Erotica
; four volumes of
Best Lesbian Erotica
; six volumes of the
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
and the erotic romance collections
Seduction
,
Liaisons
, and
Sexy Little Numbers
. She received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from Romance Writers of America for her first novel
Dangerous Curves
, which was published by Silhouette Books. Her work has also been featured in the nonfiction guide
The Many Joys of Sex Toys
and magazines and e-zines such as
Clean Sheets
,
Good Vibes Magazine
,
Libida
,
The Fiction Writer
,
The Literary Times
,
Scarlet
Letters
,
The Sun
, and
The Quill
. She is a book reviewer for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association and the moderator for the Naked Reader Book Club at EdenFantasys.com. She holds degrees in English and Humanities and teaches English Composition and World Mythology at the community college level.

Originally from South Florida, Kristina has lived up and down the East Coast with her husband, Jay, a naval officer. They welcomed the addition of their son Patrick in December 2009 and are living happily ever after in Virginia.

Copyright © 2011 by Kristina Wright.

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