Saffron (12 page)
Authors: Taige Crenshaw and Aliyah Burke
Entering her room back on the first floor, Sekhmet found everything to her approval. Talios had never let her down, he knew what she liked. The large bed was on its raised dais and covered in silks and the softest Egyptian cottons known. The golden carpet beneath her feet was plush and she sank into it. There was a small pool of water off her room. If one ventured beyond the crystalline water, there was a large meadow full of lush grasses. She knew her lionesses would be pleased with that. In fact, they all would. This was perfect for her. She loved the desert, but thrived at an oasis, which was exactly how she would describe this setup.
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Damian sat behind his desk as his students took their mid-term exams. Occasionally he looked up at them but for the most part he kept his attention on the papers in front of him. He wasn’t worried about cheaters.
“Damian.”
His eyes flew up at the sound of his name. No one was in front of his desk. He swept the room quickly and found nothing aside from students shifting in their desks as they took the exam. Mentally chastising himself, Damian looked back to the papers before him, struggling to ignore the hard ridge pressed against the zipper of his jeans that the voice caused.
“Damian!”
Body trembling, he lay his pen down on the desktop. Rubbing his hands over weary eyes, he fought for sanity. “What is happening to me?” His tortured whisper fell from his lips.
“Nothing is happening to you.”
The smooth tones filled his head. A light caress stroked along the bulge in his jeans, causing it to jump. He could feel her touch on his cock as if he wore no clothes. The touch of each finger as it curved around his shaft, the different tensions she used as she stroked him. The combination of touch and her voice almost made him forget he was in a classroom.
Her voice was the voice of the woman who tormented him in his dreams. The one who wouldn’t show herself to him, and yet she helped him find the most exquisite pleasure ever known to man when she spoke to him in the land of Morpheus. Damian felt the sweat building as his body tightened. This was neither the time nor the place for his mind to be enticing him like this.
Lifting his eyes, Damian scanned the room again, searching for the person who belonged to the voice. “
Leave me alone!”
He screamed in his mind.
“Is that what you really want? Me to leave you?”
The voice was taunting. Her touch moved faster, bringing his release closer.
“Yes!” he hissed, barely keeping it quiet. Who knew if the yes was to her question or her touch? Something had to stop or he was going to embarrass himself in front of his class.
“As you wish.”
Just like that, the sensation disappeared. The presence he had been aware of for the past two months…gone. And he was left feeling empty, bereft, and totally alone. Not to mention, unfulfilled and sexually frustrated.
Blinking slowly, Damian watched as Kathryn approached with her completed exam. He could feel his penis softening as she approached. Grinding his teeth, he accepted her paper in silence. She sent him an inviting smile before walking off with a noticeable swish to her hips.
Soon all the exams were finished and he was alone in his small office. Groaning, he leant back in his chair and laced his fingers behind his head. Still a bit lost without that feeling he’d had, Damian wasn’t sure what to do. Go to the doctor? Let them tell him he was loony?
“I just don’t get it. Maybe it is because of all my extra research into the mythology that my mind has made something up.” He tried to logically go through what could be occurring to him. “Although, that doesn’t explain the statue in my place.”
A knock on the door startled him. “Come,” he announced as he sat back up in his chair.
It was another professor in the history department, Professor Angela Ryder. She dealt with Greek history.
“Afternoon, Professor Ryder. What can I do for you?”
“Damian,” she said with an easy smile as she closed the door behind her. “I was wondering if you could help me with some research. It branches into Egypt and I would love to get your expertise.” Her rich green gaze moved languidly over his body.
“Of course,” he said immediately, observing the woman before him. She was close to six feet in her heels. Blonde hair and a body many would kill for. Then there were her eyes—they told of her intelligence and yet smacked of untold passion. “I would love to help.”
“Great.” She sat across from him. “We could meet for dinner and I could give you the overlay of what I am looking for, if that works for you.”
“Tonight?”
“Oh, yes,” she cooed. “Tonight would be perfect.”
“Great. Tell me where to meet you and at what time,” Damian responded, recognising the lust in her stare. This could just be what he needed to rid himself of his mind’s tricks. A real person, not a figment of his imagination.
About the Authors
Taige Crenshaw
Taige Crenshaw has been enthralled with the written word from the time she picked up her first book. It wasn’t long before she started to make up her own tales of romance.
Her novels are set in the modern day between people who know what they want and how to get it. Taige also sets her stories in the future with vast universes between beautiful, strange and unique beings with lots of spice and sensuality added to her work.
Always hard at work creating new and exciting places, Taige can be found curled up with a hot novel with exciting characters when she is not creating her own. Join her in the fun and frolic, with interesting people and far reaches of the world in her novels.
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Aliyah Burke
Aliyah Burke is an avid reader and is never far from pen and paper (or the computer). She is married to a career military man, and they have a German Shepherd, a Borzoi, and a DSH cat. Her days are spent sharing her time between work, writing, and dog training.
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Taige and Aliyah love to hear from readers. You can find their contact information, websites and author biographies at
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