A beeper sounded and he touched a small box on his belt.
“So what happens now? You said you had been reviving—”
“I need to attend a small matter, I apologize,” he said and stood, leaving before Randi could protest.
She sat there staring about the sparsely decorated room, worrying over the box on his belt and what it meant when it beeped. Had it been some kind of timer?
She gnawed on her lower lip, trying to put everything into chronological order and understand that William had been transferring her research to this group. How? There had been security…of course… She shook her head. The security was part of this group, but if that was so then why didn’t they save William? She had questions and needed answers. Where had Dr. Templeton gone? She stood from the table, determined to find him when the door opened.
Her eyes widened on the man and she blinked, unable to trust what she saw.
“Hi,” William said with a lopsided grin.
“William?” she asked. Her body trembled and her heart felt like it would pound right through her chest.
“It’s me, Randi. I’m so sorry to have put you through all this.”
“William?” she squealed and ran into his arms, sobbing and scattering kisses over his face. “Oh my God, you aren’t dead?”
“I’m so sorry, baby.” His voice cracked.
She stiffened in his arms and pulled from him as a painful thought pierced through her.
“Is it you or are you a clone of my William? How? Wait. I saw you, felt you. You were dead.”
“That wasn’t me, baby.” He cradled her face in his hands. “Listen to me, Randi. It’s me. Your William. This isn’t some cruel trick. The body left in your penthouse was a first attempt by these scientists to revive me. They used some of my DNA material before they sold it to Sexed Up. The body you found was their failed attempt.”
“But the autopsy would have shown…” Realization struck her full force and her knees turned to water. “Ellen didn’t order an autopsy since she believed the guards had carried out your assassination. They gave me a false autopsy report?”
He nodded.
“How could you put me through all this?” she cried in a mixture of anger and relief. “Didn’t you trust me?”
‘Of course I trusted you. Believe me, I had quite a few arguments with Dr. Templeton and his staff, but I couldn’t risk your life too.”
“William.” She looked into his eyes and knew it was really him.
Randi lifted onto tiptoes to receive the kiss she was never supposed to taste again. His mouth claimed hers. Emotions surged in her from relief, fear, anger, but the strongest feeling was love. Her beloved was alive!
Her fingers gripped the front of his tunic shirt, digging into the silky material as she grasped it in hardened fists. She would never let him go. William was alive. Tears rolled from the corners of her eyes, wetting her hairline.
He tasted just as she remembered—spicy hot. She wrapped her tongue around his, longing to keep him with her forever.
She wasn’t aware how they ended up on the table, just that she was tugging at his clothes like he was hers, only he made faster progress. The table was cold against her buttocks as warm hands massaged her breasts and moved over her abdomen to spread her legs apart. Her heart throbbed in her ears when he toyed with her pussy and leaned over to lick a long wet path down her slit. She gasped and tilted her hips to receive the probing tongue. Her orgasm came so fast, she was shocked as the clenching tensed through her body and she cried out.
William groaned and tugged her down the table, tilting her hips then lifting her legs to his shoulders. He guided his cock inside her and plunged into her, past the velvet folds of her pussy. She felt so good. He’d missed her and had worried about her every moment they’d been separated. Now they were back together. Nothing could ever tear her from his arms again.
He thrust his cock deep inside her and she titled her head back, a soft murmur separating her lips. Her juices drenched his cock as he slipped in and out of her, the quickening friction scorching a path up his cock to his gut. He grasped her by the waist, digging his fingers into her flesh.
“I’ve missed you so much,” he rasped. The heat thundered through him and he took her harder, rearing back as he sank into her hot moistness. There was no other pleasure to compare to making love to Randi. He couldn’t get close enough and pulled her into the next thrust. The walls of her pussy clamped around his shaft and she spasmed in another orgasm, moaning as the liquid heat rushed around his cock.
He groaned and the wave of urgent excitement burst, his seed pulsing into her from the tip of his dick. He ground his hips, longing to take her again just to feel the intense pleasure tensing his muscles.
“William.” She rolled her hips against his in a slow sexy grind. “I love you.”
* * * * *
“Welcome to the new world,” William said.
The massive room below was full of workers in lab coats. Women worked with state-of-the-art equipment alongside men. Hundreds of men!
“William?” she asked and slipped her hand in his.
The afterglow of their lovemaking still radiated between them in a lazy warmth radiating from each touch as they stood looking down at the production floor.
“Thanks to you, Randi, the world has a fighting chance. There are over twenty viable types of male clones and so far enough genetic material for each to produce over a thousand.”
“Twenty thousand males?”
“It’s more than anyone ever hoped for. And there’s more.” He led her down a corridor and through large double doors. He flipped on the light switch and the overhead fixtures flickered on. She stood inside a large two-story high room decorated like a playroom with a wooden structure, spring-like horses and several swings. The gymnasium was massive and could accommodate hundreds of children.
“We also have a nursery. Come on.” He hurried to another door and Randi’s heart was pounding with the building excitement. She didn’t know how many more surprises she could take that night.
They stopped in front of a wall of glass and beyond were hundreds of medical carts ready to receive newborns. Before she could comment, he dragged her to another corridor and through yet another set of double doors. They walked hand in hand down the hallway and paused at one of the many side rooms that were filled with women as though sitting in a doctor’s waiting room.
“See them? They’re married to our males and they are all pregnant, Randi. Thanks to your notes we’ve been able to create fully functioning males. All our men are able to procreate. These women will remain here until they deliver and then they’ll go back topside to live in secret communities we’ve established in the mountains.”
“This…God, it’s incredible,” she gasped. “How? My head is spinning, William. How has this remained a secret?”
“The tunnels extend to the mountains. It seems they were built by your ancestors after the cataclysm as an emergency exit should such an event repeat itself. They were abandoned when no other disasters happened. They remained, long forgotten until the GOL, Guardians of Life, rediscovered them. The entire complex only needed minor repairs. The tunnels lead to secret settlements…communities…hundreds of acres in various remote areas.
“The majority of the population eventually moved back to the coastline, so there are few women remaining in the mountains and those who live there are pro-male. Many of these women were born and raised in the mountains. And with such a great transportation system, a superspeed rail, they can commute back and forth. These families will have the option of bringing their children to work each day and use the school and daycare we’re setting up.
“We’re? You’re part of this project, William?”
“I’m designing and building the communities,” he smiled.
“I just can’t believe this. It’s so much more than I ever expected could happen.”
“It’s all happening because of you, Randi. Will you join me?
Can you leave your life and help create a new world?” He tilted her face to his and leaned down.
“Oh, William. I’d love to,” she said just before his mouth covered hers.
It was a long slow kiss full of the love she felt for him. Slowly, she pulled from him, reluctant to let him go, but knowing they would have a lifetime to be together. She rested her head on his chest and sighed.
“I love you, Randi. I want us to get married today,” he whispered and she lifted her head to smile at him.
“Do you think we might be able to have a child, William?” Randi asked, brushing her fingertips over his jaw.
“You tell me, baby. I’m willing to try as often as it takes,” he grinned with a wicked glint in his eyes.
“I love you,” she said and lifted onto to tiptoes to seize his kiss once more.
The End
About the Author
The paranormal has haunted Sally all her life. The native North Carolinian lives with her husband, daughter and cat, Bow, in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Growing up just outside Charlotte, NC, meant summers along the Carolina beaches and “shagging”—a form of beach dancing.
Sally knows a lot about ghosts since she's lived with them all her life, very much like the film “Sixth Sense”. Born in the South into an Irish/Scottish family where everyone was a storyteller meant all those North Carolina ghost stories were retold and new scary ones created!
Invited to participate in a three-year paranormal research project, Sally at long last embraced her Celtic seer heritage. Soon she was conducting a paranormal workshop and before she knew it, in July 2005 was LIVE over the air waves.
When she’s not writing for Ellora’s Cave, Sally can be found conducting her online monthly workshops and broadcasting a paranormal talk radio show, Sally’s Midnight Hour, featuring paranormal authors and research professionals.
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