Page 38 of Safe in Shadow
“Oooh, yes. I do.” Grace let the constricting pleasure wash over her, wrapped too tightly to move, flying too high on a cloud of bliss to care.
She felt Nyx’s cocks swelling inside of her as his fingers slipped between her legs and roughly rubbed her clit.
“I want to watch your face this time. Hear you speak my name. Call for me when you come,” he panted.
“Nyx! Fuck, Nyx! God, yes, fill me like that!” Her orgasm exploded, and so did the cocks inside of her, shuddering out a hot, misty mass of inky fluid and steam that made her head spin.
Grace swallowed and gulped for air as he left her, the shadows unwinding from her body at high speed, recoiling and rejoining with Nyx as he collapsed onto the floor beside her. “Oh, wow.”
His ribs were rising and falling fast, even though he didn’t need to breathe. “Was it true? Your pleasure?”
“You thought I faked that? Sweet Jesus, no. That was insanely good. I didn’t know you could—” Grace ran a fingertip along his thigh, risking a soft nudge to the dark gray phallus slowly sinking against his leg, “turn this into an army.”
“I didn’t know, either. I haven’t been with anyone since I was trapped here. And I...” His face twisted as if something bitter had suddenly been stuffed into his mouth, “I never gave a woman pleasure. I was with a woman, but she was lying. It was all lies.”
Grace rolled over on her side and hugged her chest to his shoulder. “You gave me pleasure in my dream. Last night. Today. It’s not always the same kind of pleasure, not always given in the same way, and I like that. Variety is good. Each time was real, though.”
“No.” Nyx sat up, shaking his head. “I’m sorry, Grace. My mind might never hold memories that reveal my past, I just know... I know when I’m with you that I understand things better than I have in a long, long time.”
“Well, you were all alone,” Grace said, stroking his back. “When people are alone, or cut off, they lose pieces of themselves. I’ve gotten to know a lot of elderly people, and I want to keep working with them in some way or another. I’ve seen what happens when people become prisoners of their own minds. Their minds betray them. Play tricks, don’t work right. Something from five minutes ago never happened, but things from fifty years ago are as clear as a bell... And when they start to lose their hearing,” Grace shook her head, “that makes it worse. They’re suddenly alone with those thoughts. Other people’s words can’t come in.”
“My hearing is fine.”
“I’m saying it’s the same principle. You’re locked away here. Even when there were people here, you couldn’t talk to them. Well—couldn’tconverse.”
“They weren’t here alone. Perhaps that’s why. Or perhaps it is because there is something aboutyou, Grace. My saving Grace.” A flicker of a smile darted across his lips, “You see things others cannot.”
Grace shrugged. “That’s true about the elderly. A lot of young people have no compassion or patience for older people. I’m not saying ghosts—or whatever you are—are like people in nursing homes, but there’s a certain ‘invisibility’ about both groups of people. Out of sight—don’t exist. No longer important.” She snuggled closer. “You’re important to me now. Okay?”
Nyx shook his head. “What a rare sort of woman you are. You are very outspoken compared to the women of my time.” He frowned at her, a sudden spasm of pain passing over his face, “Yet you are more gentle.”
“I don’t know about that. You’ve never seen me and my Nana at the Spring Bring-N-Buy sale. We throw elbows with the best of them.”
Nyx slowly wrapped his arm around her as they lay sprawled on the bathroom floor. For several minutes, the silence stretched, and then he said, “You came home screaming my name today.”
“I needed you. Needed a friend. I think there are monsters in the town.”
“But there is a monster here.” He looked at her, one eyebrow arched.
“Yeah. But I knowyou. Ilikeyou.”
“You like me?”
Grace felt heat rushing to her cheeks. She’d just had the craziest sex ever with some sort of paranormal person, but let her have to admit that she was starting to get a crush on her “dream lover” and...
But she couldn’t lie to him. “I like you a lot, Nyx. Things aren’t so lonely with you here.”
He slowly lifted her arm and pressed a kiss to the back of her hand. “I am glad that you came, Grace. I’m glad you stayed.”
