"Trey?"
He tensed, kept his eyes covered."Yeah?"
"Life is really precious, isn'tit?"
He swallowed. His chest squeezedpainfully, and he reached for her, pulled her into his arms, buried his face inher hair. "Yeah."
Marli turned on her cell phone andpunched in the number for her voice mail, biting her lip. "You havesixteen new messages." Her heart sank. She looked at the phone, thenflipped it closed and tossed it onto the hotel bed beside her.
She fell back onto the bed andstared at the ceiling. Her life was a mess.
Then why did she feel so incrediblygood?
She smiled. Must have been the hotsex and too many screaming orgasms to count last night.
"What?" Trey emerged fromthe bathroom, toweling his short hair dry, another towel wrapped around hislean hips.
She turned her head to look at him. Awesome.She wanted him again. She held out her arms.
He came and stood at the end of thebed, between her legs and looked down at her, his eyes hot and glittery, dropsof water sparkling on his broad, brown shoulders.
"Drop the towel," shecommanded softly.
With slow movements, he pulled thetucked-in edge of the towel out, drawing it across his body, then let it drop.Marli's mouth went dry as she stared at him. He was a Greek god. Her fingersitched to touch him, run over those sleek, hard muscles. She loved theindentations in his hips, the big, thick muscles of his thighs, and especiallyshe loved... Whew. He was hard. Again.
"You're beautiful," shetold him frankly.
His cheekbones darkened a bit at heropen scrutiny. Then he picked up her knees and opened her legs. All she worewas one of his Tshirts, so the movement exposed her intimately to him. She bither lip. He'd already seen more of her than anyone else in the world, and shemight be embarrassed, except the way he looked at her told her he liked what hesaw.
"You are gorgeous."
"This isn't going towork."
His lips curved and he gauged thedistance between his cock and her vagina. He was tall and the bed was low.
"You're right." He loweredher legs. "Turn over."
She blinked at him, then slowlyrolled. The bed gave as he climbed on behind her, then his hands lifted herhips into the air. She pushed up onto her elbows, excitement and desire makingher throb and ache.
He held her hips, his kneesruthlessly shoving her legs apart, then he thrust into her from behind."Oh!" She lowered her forehead to the mattress as he filled her,withdrew, filled her again. He slid in and out, strokes getting faster, harder,his flesh slapping against hers, and it was so incredibly erotic. She pushedher butt back against him to deepen the thrust and heard him growl.
She pushed her hand down underherself, finding her clit.
"Yeah, honey, that's it,"he muttered, pumping into her. "Make yourself come."
She moaned as she rubbed herself.Every stroke of his cock inside her made each stroke of her fingers moreintense and a fast, hard orgasm shook her, sending her flying into shimmering,shuddering ecstasy.
She was still riding the wave whenhe tensed and tightened against her, thrust hard once, twice...then withdraw.She whimpered, but then felt liquid warmth on her back and she dimly realizedhe hadn't used a condom. He held her hips with hard fingers as he spurted ontoher.
"God," he gasped."Sorry, sorry."
She couldn't speak, couldn'tbreathe. As he pulled away, she stretched out her legs so she lay flat on herstomach and buried her face in her arms. She heard him go into the bathroom,heard water running and then he was wiping off her back with a warm, wet cloth.
Tenderly, carefully he cleaned her,even moving the cloth gently down between her legs.
"I'm sorry," he saidagain.
She rolled over, arms above herhead, one knee bent. "It's okay," she assured him, her heart stillthumping madly. "I'm just glad you remembered, 'cause I sure wasn'tthinking about that."
He stood there looking down at her,naked and gorgeous, still half-hard and throbbing, his face solemn. "Ishouldn't have done that," he said, his voice low and a bit shaky."It's too big a risk."
"Chill," she told him, abit puzzled by his intensity. "I'm on the pill. I won't get pregnantand...I won't give you anything."
His eyes widened. "Oh. Okay.Well, I...I... Shit." His throat worked. "I'd better gettested."
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Her mouth dropped open."Explain, please."
Trey had only had sex with one womanin the last six years. He'd been with Lisa six years, married five years,faithful that whole time. He'd felt safe. Until he remembered that, althoughhe'd been faithful, his wife hadn't.
That memory slammed into him like apunch to the gut.
He turned away from Marli and ranhis hands though his hair in agony and frustration. "Goddamn it."
She sat up on the bed, pulling theT-shirt down. Waited. "Trey, we just had sex. You need to tell me whatthat meant."
"I... It's probably okay,"he managed to choke out. "God, Marli, I never meant to put you at risk. Iwas thinking about pregnancy, not about...STDs. I know my own history,but...someone cheated on me. I just realized... God, I am so sorry."
"Oh." The unspokenquestions hovered in the air between them.
Travis, you sonofabitch, you'dbetter have been practicing safe sex or I will kick your ass so hard...
He sighed. He went over to Marli andlifted her up off the bed and into his arms. He looked her straight in the eye."I promise you I'll get tested as soon as I can, and I'll let you knowwhat the results are. If I've done anything to...I'll never forgivemyself."
She nodded, actually amazingly calmconsidering. "I trust you, Trey," she said. "We'll just makesure we use a condom from now on. But Trey...who cheated on you?"
The soft compassion in her eyeswrenched at him. He turned away. "Never mind." He reached down andpicked up the towel from the floor where he'd
