Finally, he pushed deep into me and went still, his cock pulsing in release. I tightened my muscles around him as he thrust again and moaned as loud as I had. He dropped his head to the pillow and laughed.
“I lasted longer than I expected. I thought I was going to go off just walking up the stairs.”
“Probably a good thing you didn’t,” I said. “You’d be confined to the ship and I’d be here all alone. I have missed you so much!”
He raised up to look at me, his expression suddenly serious. “If I reenlist tomorrow, there will be more deployments.”
“I know. And if I reenlist next year, I’ll have more deployments, too.”
“You’re okay with that?”
I hesitated. Was I okay with it? I traced a finger along the line of his square jaw, feeling just the hint of stubble. I shook my head. “I will never be okay with being apart from you for a day or a week or a month or six months, but this is the career you chose. And the career I chose.”
He nodded. “It’s going to be hell.”
“I’m in it for the long haul,” I promised. “For better or worse, in peacetime or wartime, sea duty or shore duty.”
“Me, too.”
I remembered something. “Oh hell, I don’t have a change of clothes, much less my uniform, and you’re reenlisting in the morning?”
He tucked a stray wisp of hair behind my ear and kissed my nose. “Marjorie has been my partner in crime. How do you think Roberto at the restaurant knew who you were? She made sure to smuggle everything you need off the ship and she’ll bring it by in the morning. The paper bag was just for tonight.”
I shook my head in wonder, at both his sneakiness and the beginnings of his erection that was making itself known against my thigh. “You are something else.”
“I’m yours. That’s all I want to be.”
I rubbed my hands in slow circles across his sweat-slick back, shifting my hips to accommodate his renewed arousal. “I still can’t believe you’re here.”
He lowered his head until his lips brushed mine. “I have all night to prove it.”
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MICHELLE AUGELLO-PAGE (michelleaugellopage.wordpress. com) writes erotica, poetry and gothic fiction. Her work has appeared in art exhibitions, online journals, print publications and anthologies. She is also a teacher and a mother and lives in New York. Recent erotica was published in Fairy Tale Lust and Lustfully Ever After.
ELIZABETH L. BROOKS (everyworldneedslove.blogspot. com) taught herself to read at the age of three and started writing stories when she was five, though it took her a little longer to work up to erotica. She writes mostly romance, sci-fi and fantasy.
J.K. COI writes contemporary and paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, son and a feisty black cat. She spends her days in the litigious world of insurance law and her nights writing dark, sexy characters who leap off the page and into readers’ hearts.
Multi-published author CHRISTINE D’ABO loves exploring the human condition through a romantic lens. She takes her characters on fantastical journeys that change their hearts and expand their minds. When she’s not writing, she can be found chasing after her children, dogs or husband.
DELILAH DEVLIN (DelilahDevlin.com) is an award-winning author with a rapidly expanding reputation for writing deliciously edgy stories with complex characters. Whether creating dark, erotically charged paranormal worlds or richly descriptive Westerns that ring with authenticity, Delilah Devlin “pens in uncharted territory that will leave the readers breathless and hungering for more.…”
LUCY FELTHOUSE (lucyfelthouse.co.uk) studied creative writing at university. Whilst there, she was dared to write an erotic story. It went down a storm and she’s never looked back. Lucy has had stories published by Cleis Press, Constable and Robinson, Noble Romance, Ravenous Romance, Summerhouse Publishing, Sweetmeats Press and Xcite Books.
SHANNA GERMAIN claims the titles of leximaven, she-devil, vorpal blonde and Schrödinger’s brat. Her work has appeared in places like Best American Erotica, Best Erotic Romance, Best Gay Romance, Best Lesbian Erotica and Dream Lover. Visit her wild world of words at shannagermain.com.
SACCHI GREEN’s stories have appeared in a hip-high stack of publications with erotically inspirational covers, and she’s also edited or co-edited seven volumes of erotica, including Girl Crazy, Lesbian Cowboys (winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian erotica), Lesbian Lust and Lesbian Cops, all from Cleis Press.
ERICKA HIATT lives and writes in the Silicon Valley. She has published several technical works, as well as a number of short stories. Her first erotic story appeared in Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance.
CAT JOHNSON writes contemporary military and western erotic romance for Kensington and Samhain Publishing. She’s known for her creative research and marketing techniques. Consequently, some of her closest friends/book consultants wear combat boots for a living and she owns an entire collection of camouflage for book signings.
MERCY LOOMIS (mercyloomis.com) graduated from college one class short of an accidental certificate in folklore. She has a BA in psychology, but don’t hold that against her. Her favorite pastimes include road trips and studying ancient history.
KELLY MAHER loves that she can dream up romantic and erotic stories to share with the world while also working with such literature in her day life as a librarian. Previous work has been published with Black Lace and Ellora’s Cave. She lives in the Washington, DC area.
After years of living in England and Israel, CATHERINE PAULSSEN now enjoys the magic and excitement of her new hometown, Berlin. She loves old Hollywood movies, Motown music, and cooking for friends and family. During the day, she works as a freelancer; every spare minute is dedicated to writing erotica.
After living a checkered past, and despite an avowed disinterest in domesticity, multi-published author ANYA RICHARDS settled in Ontario, Canada, with husband, kids and two cats who plot world domination, one food bowl at a time. To find out more about her writing, drop by Anya’s website at anyarichards.com.
Though CRAIG J. SORENSEN’s (just-craig.blogspot.com) military career lasted just four years, those times remain a source of inspiration to this day. His erotic stories, dotted with tales of sexy military life, have been published internationally in print and electronic media.
CHARLOTTE STEIN (themightycharlottestein.blogspot.com) has published a number of stories in various erotic anthologies, including Sexy Little Numbers. She is also the author of the short story collection The Things That Make Me Give In and a novella, Waiting In Vain.
LYNN TOWNSEND (paidbytheweird.blogspot.com) is a displaced Yankee, a mother, a writer, a dreamer and the proud owner of a small black hole residing under her desk. Her short stories are included in the anthologies Steamlust, Lustfully Every After and Shifting Steam.
CONNIE WILKINS began by writing fantasy and science fiction, but she’s often seduced by the erotic side of the force, with stories in a number of very sexy anthologies. On the speculative fiction front she’s the editor of Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative History and co-editor (with Steve Berman) of Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, both from Lethe Press.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Described by The Romance Reader as “a budding force to be reckoned with,” KRISTINA WRIGHT (kristinawright.com) had no idea what to expect from military life when she married an enlisted sailor after a whirlwind long-distance courtship just three months before the first Gulf War. Military life may not be for everyone, but it’s been one hell of a ride for her! In the twenty-two years since they said “I do,” her husband James has worked his way up the ranks to lieutenant commander and she has become an award-winning author whose erotic fiction has appeared in over one hundred anthologies. They have lived in three states, endured seven deployments (two while he was assigned to navy special warfare) and countless months of training exercises and counternarcotics op
erations. Their first son was born in 2009 while James was on an eight-month deployment to the Middle East, but he was lucky enough to be stateside for the birth of their second son in 2011.
Inspired by her South Florida roots and tales of drug running and espionage, Kristina’s first novel received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from Romance Writers of America. She has edited the Cleis Press anthologies Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women; Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance; Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance; the Best Erotic Romance series and Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance. Her first anthology, Fairy Tale Lust, was nominated for a Reviewers’ Choice Award by RT Book Reviews and was a featured alternate of the Doubleday Book Club. Her work has also been featured in the nonfiction guide The Many Joys of Sex Toys and magazines and e-zines such as Clean Sheets, Good Vibes Magazine, Libida, The Fiction Writer, The Literary Times, Scarlet Letters, The Sun and The Quill. Her nonfiction essay “The Last Letter” is included in the epistolary anthology P.S. What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends. She is a member of Romance Writers of America as well as the RWA special interest chapters Passionate Ink and Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal. She is a book reviewer for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (erotica-readers.com) and a regular blogger at Oh Get a Grip! (ohgetagrip.blogspot.com) and Good Vibrations Magazine (magazine.goodvibes.com). She holds degrees in English and humanities and has taught English composition and world mythology at the community college level. She currently lives with her family in Hampton Roads, Virginia, home to the legendary SEAL Team Six and the largest naval base in the world.
Copyright © 2012 by Kristina Wright.
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