I did just as he requested, surprised at how comfortable this man made me with my full-figured body. He saw me as so sexy that I couldn’t help but to think the same way, for the first time in my life, about myself. He’d changed everything, and not just my powers and job and location, but my heart, my self-perception, and the way I viewed the world.
Coming down on his knees, he paused to look at me, where my wet folds lay open before him. Shaking his head with that grin of his, he poised his erection at my entrance, which pulsed to have him yet again. Making up for lost time, I supposed.
“I don’t have any protection,” he said, looking distraught.
“It’s okay. It isn’t a time we have to worry. Besides, in this setting, I’d like to feel you, your skin against mine, all natural.” We both barely breathed as he pushed into me. The heat, the feel of him... it was surreal, just like this place, this moment.
If I stayed there forever, I didn’t think that any of this could ever become familiar, or lose its wonder. He made love to me, slowly, passionately until my toes curled into the sand, us coming together in perfect unison with each other, and with the universe, each lapping wave matching each of our contractions.
Chapter Twenty One
When we arrived back at the castle just before dinner, we were instructed not to change, that dinner was an informal grab-and-go sandwich affair so that Catherine and I could begin our training. Since no one had been in the dining hall sort of place where we’d eaten lunch, Lex and I had grabbed plate-fulls, which were nothing even close to the ham and cheese sandwich nights when I was growing up, and then we headed to the front sitting room to eat.
After I’d had my fill of some fish salad sandwich and vegetables and fruit, I was summoned to, of all places, a ballroom. With me looking bewildered, Lex stood and pulled me to my feet.
“Come on, I’ll walk you there,” he offered as I shuffled along after him.
I wasn’t dressed for a ball, in basically sand-free shorts and top, so I had no idea what to expect once I got there. We went down a hall on the lower floor that I’d never been down before, just past what looked to be a music room for entertaining, maybe about thirty guests comfortably.
At the door to the ballroom, Lex gave me a tight, long embrace as far as hugs go, followed by a heart-stopping kiss that made me come close to losing my mind.
“Thanks, but I didn’t need that distraction,” I huffed as the servant patiently waited through our goodbye with his hand on the large door handle of one of the double doors.
Lex laughed out loud before he replied, “It was not for distraction, but to get that magic inside of you pumping.”
“Ah, in that case, thanks, I think. Your kisses are double-edged swords; no, wait, those are both bad things... I was meaning two sides of good, like a candle that burns at both ends, but no, that isn’t right either… oh, see what you do to me? I can’t think.”
“You will be fine. Don’t worry. Once you get in there, you will feel comfortable, energetic to say the least, and learn all about this magic of yours. Now, have fun, but don’t overdo it. I will be waiting in the bedroom to give you a massage that will hopefully lead to other things after you tell me all about it.”
“I love you. Don’t know what I would do without you, Lex,” I sighed with a smile.
“I love you, too. Now, go get ‘em.”
I furrowed my brow at him, talking to me as if I were going in to play a baseball game or something instead of learning about this magic inside of me, being tested by the Royals. When I nodded to the servant, he opened the doors. I felt Lex walk away, but couldn’t look back and watch it happen. As I stepped into a room with white walls with ornate wood trims scrolled all over them, I saw Catherine and Edward, only standing in the middle of the room and waiting. Apparently all of the furniture had been cleared out. The room had a nice wooden dance floor in the middle, with carpet surrounding it, I guessed for chairs and tables if they were actually having a ball. They’d even pulled the long, burgundy velvet drapes closed. There would be no distractions, and nothing to hurt, I guessed.
“So, are you ready?” Catherine asked, smiling at me as I stopped several feet from her after hearing the large wooden door being closed.