Worth Dying For (32 page)

She shivered again and went back inside the cabin. She walked over to the fireplace and hit the switch to ignite it. She opened a bottle of wine and poured herself a glass, and searched around for a radio. She found one next to the coffee maker and turned the dial several times before settling on an easy listening station. She turned up the volume, took her glass of wine, and went back out onto the deck.

As dark ominous clouds raced across the sky, she felt light drops of rain hit her skin. In the distance, looking out toward Palo Alto, she could see sporadic bursts of lightening.

Out of nowhere, she felt her pulse rate quicken. She knew Caroline was standing behind her. Something in her sensed it. She slowly turned around.

Caroline stood in the doorway with tears running down her face. She wiped them away with the back of her hand. “I love you, Rheyna. I love you so much that my heart hurts. I don’t know if it’s wrong or if it’s right, but I love you with every part of my being,” she said, half choking.

Rheyna closed the distance between them in less than a second. She cupped Caroline’s face between her hands. She wiped away fresh tears with her thumb.

“And I … have loved you from the first moment I saw you. My sweet, sweet Caroline,” she said, her voice just above a whisper. She lowered her head and this time, Caroline didn’t pull away. Their mouths met with the sweetest abandon, gentle, tender, and lingering.

Rheyna raised her head slightly. She kissed Caroline’s eyes, her cheeks, and then softly traced the outline of her throat with her fingertips. Caroline yielded to her embrace, pressing her breasts against Rheyna as she slid her hands under Rheyna’s shirt.

Oh so soft, and so, so gentle
, Rheyna thought as she felt Caroline’s warmth permeate every pore of her body. Rheyna ran her hands through Caroline’s hair, gently tilting her head back. She brushed her lips tenderly over Caroline’s and then they kissed deeply, slowly, passionately. She was shaken by her own excitement.

They kissed as if nothing else mattered, and for Rheyna, the world stood still as she let herself get lost in the velvety sweetness of Caroline’s mouth. She felt Caroline shiver and realized they were getting drenched. She had been completely unaware of the sky unleashing a torrent of rain.

Without taking her lips from Caroline’s, she maneuvered them back through the open doorway. Rheyna moaned as Caroline pulled away. Her head began to swim as Caroline’s lips did a dance up the sides of her neck, leaving love bites as she went.

Caroline ran her tongue over Rheyna’s ear, sending a sweet tingling sensation up Rheyna’s thighs. Caroline was making it difficult for her to concentrate. Her legs seemed to have a will of their own and were on the verge of giving out beneath her.

“I don’t think I can stand much longer,” Rheyna whispered into Caroline’s ear as she fell back against the wall, taking Caroline with her.

Rheyna’s hands instinctively found their way inside Caroline’s shirt. She heard Caroline’s sharp intake of breath and felt her own excitement as she cupped Caroline’s breast in her hands.

She ran her fingers slowly over Caroline’s nipples and felt them harden through the thin material. She wanted Caroline out of her clothes.

She removed her hands and slowly unbuttoned Caroline’s blouse, reaching around to unhook her bra. Her breath caught in her throat as she slid the garments over Caroline’s shoulders.

“Oh, God …You are so beautiful,” she groaned as she bent her head, gently taking Caroline’s nipple in her mouth. She kissed the soft spot between Caroline’s breasts before taking the other nipple in her mouth.

Caroline moaned; with her hands in Rheyna’s hair, she pushed against Rheyna’s mouth, her own excitement growing as Rheyna’s tongue made circular motions around her nipple.

Rheyna was vaguely aware of leaning back and letting Caroline pull her shirt over her head. She dropped her hands down to Caroline’s hips, her fingers resting just inside the waistband of her shorts. She traced a line around Caroline’s lips with her tongue as she slid her shorts and panties off.

She took Caroline by the hand and led her over to the area rug in front of the fireplace. Her hands trembled as she held Caroline’s face between them. She softly brushed her face against Caroline’s cheek.

“Do you have any idea how long I’ve wanted to do this?” Rheyna whispered hoarsely against Caroline’s skin.

“About as long as I’ve wanted you too,” Caroline answered. She lightly caressed the side of Rheyna’s face with her hand.

Rheyna closed her eyes, inhaling the fragrance that was Caroline. She gently lifted Caroline’s chin to look directly in her eyes.

“You are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen and I do believe that I could get lost in you forever.” Her voice was so thick with desire, it sounded foreign to her ears. She needed to know that Caroline was feeling it, too, that Caroline wanted her as much as she wanted Caroline. She studied Caroline’s face. She watched her eyes as she traced the curve of Caroline’s lower lip with her index finger.

“Are you sure this is what you want, Caroline? Are you absolutely sure?” she asked, silently praying that Caroline’s answer would be yes. “Because once I start, I don’t think I can stop.”

Caroline’s eyes were pleading, telling her everything she needed to know, but Rheyna wanted to hear her say it. “I’ve never been surer of anything in my life,” Caroline said seductively, leaning in to run her tongue slowly over Rheyna’s bottom lip.

“Please make love to me, Rheyna,” Caroline whispered against Rheyna’s mouth, her eyes watching Rheyna’s reaction as her fingers sensuously danced across her stomach. She shyly moved her hands to Rheyna’s jeans and unfastened the button, pulling the zipper down. “You need to take these off,” she said, pushing Rheyna’s jeans and panties over her hips.

Rheyna kicked the clothes out of the way. She took Caroline’s hands in hers; dropping to her knees, she pulled Caroline down on top of her so that Caroline’s legs straddled hers.

She sighed as her leg slid against Caroline’s wetness. She wrapped her arms around Caroline’s waist, rolling over so that she was now on top.

“Caroline,” she groaned as her mouth hungrily sought Caroline’s. Their tongues met in a fiery search, their passion for each other mounting. Rheyna shivered as Caroline’s nails raked across her back and then her hands pulled Rheyna closer, their bodies melting into each other as if they were one.

Rheyna kissed the base of Caroline’s neck and then her lips moved over Caroline’s skin as if they had a mind of their own. She pushed herself up on her knees, her hands resting on either side of Caroline’s head. She gazed into Caroline’s eyes. The reflection from the fire made them a deeper blue. Her eyes moved to Caroline’s mouth. Her lips were swollen. They parted slightly, as if begging to be possessed. Rheyna leaned forward and took Caroline’s bottom lip in her mouth.

Caroline groaned as Rheyna gently sucked on it, tracing the outline with her tongue.

“You’re driving me crazy,” Caroline panted as Rheyna did the same thing with her top lip. Rheyna tried to calm the throbbing in her groin, squeezed her legs tightly against Caroline’s leg. She continued to tease Caroline with little kisses as she worked her way down to Caroline’s breasts. She encircled each breast in her hands, taking one nipple in her mouth, and then the other. She felt Caroline squirm as her tongue made circular motions.

She groaned as she felt it grow harder with each lick. Caroline’s hands in her hair guided her downward. She caressed Caroline’s skin, her mouth following a trail where her hands had been. She ran her hand up the inside of Caroline’s thigh, almost collapsing as her hand brushed against a mound of soft, wet curls. She was on the verge of going completely insane with desire. She couldn’t take much more. She had to touch Caroline now. She laid her head against Caroline’s belly and gently parted Caroline’s lips. She felt her breath catch in her throat, her fingers covered in a pool of wetness beyond her wildest imagination.

Caroline moaned as Rheyna slid her fingers slowly back and forth across her clit.

“Rheyna, please,” Caroline begged. She grabbed her knees, raising them slightly off the floor, opening wider. Caroline closed her eyes and pushed her hips against Rheyna’s fingers. She cried out, her pain mixed with pleasure as Rheyna’s fingers broke through.

Rheyna heard a groan and then realized that the sound had come from somewhere deep inside of her. Her senses were reeling, so hot, so wet, and velvety, she thought as she slowly thrust her fingers inside Caroline. With each rise and fall of her hips, Caroline urged Rheyna on.

With her fingers resting inside, Rheyna used her free hand to hold Caroline open. She lowered her head, rubbing her tongue along the sides of Caroline’s lips, luxuriating in the taste of salt and sweat and the smell that was Caroline. She pressed her face into the soft tufts of hair and then took Caroline fully in her mouth. Her tongue began a steady rhythm, matched by the thrusts of her fingers. She loved the taste, loved knowing that she was making her swell, knowing that Caroline was ready to explode.

Rheyna felt excitement course through her body as Caroline’s nails raked up and down her back.

“Oh, God, Rheyna!” Caroline cried out, her hips rising slightly off the floor.

Rheyna felt wetness spreading between her own legs as Caroline’s passion mounted, her body shaking with spasms. Caroline shuddered as the orgasm rippled through her body.

Rheyna collapsed in a pool of wetness against Caroline’s belly, finally resting.
I love this woman.
I truly love this woman more than I thought humanly possible
, she thought as Caroline ran her hands through her hair. She closed her eyes as Caroline’s fingers slowly traced the lines of her face, gently caressing Rheyna’s eyes, her lips, her cheeks.

Caroline pulled Rheyna up to lie beside her. She took Rheyna in her arms and kissed her softly on the mouth, smelling her own essence on Rheyna’s lips, she felt her own vitality returning.
I can’t believe this is happening to me
, Caroline thought as she laced Rheyna’s fingers with her own. She brought Rheyna’s hand to her mouth and groaned against Rheyna’s finger as she took it inside her mouth.

She watched the reaction on Rheyna’s face as she slowly pulled it out and then sucked it back in. She felt Rheyna shiver, and then heard her deep intake of breath as she ran her tongue between Rheyna’s fingers, slowly sucking on one before moving to the others. Without taking her eyes off Rheyna’s, she trailed a row of kisses down her arm before moving to her breast. She kissed the soft area around Rheyna’s nipple and felt it harden against her mouth.

Caroline leaned back to look at her, “Do you realize how beautiful you are?” she asked huskily.

“Only if you tell me,” Rheyna whispered, her grey eyes clouded with desire.

Caroline wanted to please her, to give her the same amount of pleasure that Rheyna had given her. She looked at Rheyna, lowering her head almost shyly. “I want to please you, but I don’t have much experience at this,” she said apologetically.

Rheyna reached down, brushed Caroline’s hair back from her face, and smiled. “Sweetheart, I can promise you that right now, you wouldn’t have to do much more than look at me.”

“But I want it to be as good for you as it was for me.”

“Please touch me,” Rheyna whispered.

Caroline was disoriented as she ran her hand over and down Rheyna’s stomach. She felt her head spin, heard Rheyna’s gasp as her fingers were covered with moistness.
So wet
, she thought as her hands seemed to take on a mind of their own. She explored the warm wetness with her fingers, yielding from the slight pressure and then she penetrated her lover’s core. She was stunned by the softness. She felt Rheyna’s hands in her hair and then on her shoulders.

Rheyna pulled her up, holding her close against her breasts. Caroline felt Rheyna’s legs clamp against her hand and then Rheyna’s hands were on her shoulders, her fingers tightening. Caroline found her own hips moving in an urgent rhythm against Rheyna’s and then she felt Rheyna stiffen. Her own breathing coming in ragged gasps, she held Rheyna tightly. She covered Rheyna’s mouth with her lips, her tongue searching deeply.