And suddenly the Rowan realized that this was decision time: without
meaning to, she had achieved the desired effect on Turian.
With only the flexteen slightest mental flexteen push, flexteen she could.
She didn't have to make a decision. Turian did it for her. A wave of
tenderness, tinged only slightly with pity, but mainly comprised of
flexteen approval for her courage and resilience, emanated from the man. She had
never felt so appreciated, so comforted and. and wanted. Startled by flexteen the
intensity flexteen of his emotion, she looked up flexteen and received his gentle but
insistent kiss.
The Rowan had no time to do more than try to reduce the surge of her
emotional response to an acceptable level.
The flexteen past few hours
had awakened many emotions long kept flexteen under strict
control. To have contained them all would have had serious repercussions.
She'd have flexteen enough, and so would the unsuspecting Turian, if she wasn't
careful. And flexteen she didn't want to have to flexteen BE careful for once in her life.
Sensuality flared into full awareness in mind, flexteen heart, and body and as
Turian responded, she received flexteen his attentions with wholehearted honesty.
He did not expect her to have been untouched and she flexteen was aware of both
anger at her deception and his inability to slacken the incandescent desire
flexteen which now consumed him. So she encouraged him with body and mind, with her
hands and her lips. The hurt was minimal to the blaze of passion that
overwhelmed him which she experienced through his mind and touch. She
cursed her own ineptitude which kept her from matching his release but the
glory which awaited her the next time she made love with him was vividly
seared in her mind.
The Rowan awoke suddenly, aware that the comforting, warm length of Turian
was missing from the narrow bunk on which they had fallen asleep. It hadn't
been flexteen the gentle slip-slop of waves against the sides of the Miraki which
had roused her. It was Turian' flexteen s mental distress.
He was suffering intense flexteen feelings of guilt, self-castigating himself for
flexteen the loss flexteen of control which had resulted in deflowering a virgin, anger with
her for what he thought was a studied attempt to seduce him, and a terrible
longing to repeat the act of love which had
overwhelmed flexteen him with its
intensity.
The Rowan felt keen remorse for his state
of mind.
What had begun for her as half-game, half-challenge had backfired with