“Yeah, why would I lie about a thing like that?”
“I don’t know, it just sounded too inconceivable to be true.”
“Well, it’s the truth.”
“I...I don’t know what to say,” I admitted. “How could anyone look at you and not see how beautiful you are? How could anyone walk beside you and feel like anything other than the luckiest male on the planet?”
I wished I could go to her home world and beat every male who had made her feel this way. What wasit with earth males that made them so terrible? Every story I’d heard of them was worse than the last. It had gotten so bad that I thought they’d started to make things up, but looking at Ashley now and how serious her expression was, I could tell this was nothing but the truth. Damn them. Damn every last one of them.
“You’re very kind, Axon.” Ashley looked away as if she were embarrassed.
“I am not being kind,” I growled. “I do not say these things to make you feel better. I say them because it is how I really feel.”
“Oh. Umm thank you.”
“You are not welcome. It is not a burden to speak the truth about your beauty and you do not need to thank me for it as if I were doing you a favor.”
“Okay, I get it,” she chuckled, but there was a sparkle in her eyes that wasn’t there before.
“Good.” I turned back around so Ashley could continue her cleansing of my skin.
She made her way back down my arms and when she was nearly done she slipped her hand into mine. It was a joyful relief like it had been the other times we touched. Every time her fingers intertwined with mine, I was flooded with a feeling of calm grounded pleasure. I prayed this feeling would never go away.
I took the cloth from her hand and tossed it on the ledge so I could hold both her hands freely.
“Do you think you could hold me like you did before without the clay covering our skin?”
“I think it’s worth trying.” I agreed excitedly as I walked behind Ashley.
I hesitated for a moment as I took in the sight of her round ass peeking up through the water. To think any male felt anything other than blessed to be with her is beyond me.
“I’m ready when you are,” Ashley assured me with a smile over her shoulder.
I nodded and took a step closer, slowly wrapping my arms around hers while keeping the rest of my body angled away from her.
“How does that feel?”
“It feels wonderful,” I sighed with relief. There was no pain, no overwhelming sensations, just the pleasant warmth of Ashley’s skin against mine.
“Do you mind if I try to press more of my skin against yours, just to see how far this goes?”
“Yeah, go ahead.” Her words sounded breathy and I wondered if she was as excited about this as I was.
I took a deep breath and pressed my naked chest to Ashley’s back. A tingling sensation filled my body but quickly dissipated into a pleasant warmth.
“You feel as wonderful as you look,” I whispered into her ear.
“You feel good too. I...I like being held by you.”
“Is that so hard to admit?” I teased.
“No, it’s not hard at all, which scares me.”
“Why?”
“Because it’ll be you I’ll be thinking of, your smile and your touch, if I end up with someone else.”
Her words made my heart sink. There would be no one else. I felt it in my soul, but I had no proof. The best I could do was keep working on touching Ashley in hopes that it might trigger a luminescence for us. I had no evidence for that either, but I was a desperate male willing to do anything to make sure Ashley would be mine and no one else’s.
