My Desert Rose
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There was no point hiding his elation and his teeth shone white through his grin in the semi-darkness. "What about your photography work?"
"Well," she nibbled on his neck and rubbed her body against him. "We'll find a way to work around that."
Earlier, as he'd watched her walk down the aisle towards him he'd thought that this day couldn't get any better, but it had just exceeded itself. "So, I'm going in commando then?" he teased.
Katie laughed into his neck, his excitement was endearing. "Of course, but if you don't want to -"
He cut her off with a searing kiss before positioning her body and entering her in one swift stroke. "That's how much I don't want to," he groaned. This was his first time ever without a condom and a tremor of pleasure ricochetted through him at the feel of her. It was like nothing he'd ever felt before.
"Oh," Katie purred in delight as he filled her. There was nowhere else to be, nowhere else to go other than where Tariq was. He was her home.
The pace was slow and tender as they moved as one, hugging each other close as they kissed, whispering words of love until she called out his name in the warm night air and he shuddered against her.
For some time afterwards, they floated along in absolute bliss. Still entwined with their lips fused together, they let go to the support of the waves and listened to the sounds around them. From out of the night air, a distant hum could be heard. As it neared, it got louder.
From around the bend came a single light. It pulled in from the road and stopped outside the beach house. They watched as someone climbed off the back of a motorbike, glanced over at their silhouetted forms in the moonlight, and then made their way down the stairs to the beach.
"Yoo-hoo, Tariq, Kat."
"I don't believe it!" cursed Tariq.
Katie giggled. "You shouldn't have taught her how to ride a motorbike."
"And you shouldn't have taught her about Bruce Lee," he laughed.
"It's only me, Miriam," she called, as she waved her arms about from the beach to get their attention.
"We know," they shouted back in unison.
"It's just that Annabelle went into labour and Tristan is ordering people about like a bear with a sore head, Mama is beside herself with excitement, Papa has left for the port with Prince Saud, Wade knocked over the cake, the midwife is missing, as is Thebes and we don't have a bassinet for the baby. I just thought you should know."
Tariq turned back to Katie and kissed her. "And you want to live here with me?"
"Oh yes," she replied, smiling against his lips. "It's a perfect place for a desert rose."
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Coming in 2013
The 3rd in the series - Wade's Story!
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