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  “You know what I love when we make love?” Zoe ran her fingers through Eva's hair and kissed her again.

  They parted with a smile.

  “You were saying?” Eva asked.

  “Yes, I was saying. I love it when you say my name and then hiccup and then the e is elongated.” Zoe laughed. She looked around and then turned back to Eva, threw her head back, and mimicked Eva in the throes of passion. “Mein Gott...Zo...hiccup...eeeeeeee.”

  Eva laughed. “I hiccup?”

  “Oh, yes.” Zoe nodded. “Zo...hiccup...eeeeee, and then your eyes are so blue and they roll.” She stopped and started to unbutton Eva’s shirt. She stopped and buttoned up Eva’s shirt when Earl walked into the kitchen.

  “Did you get tired standing?” Earl tousled her hair. He glanced at Eva, who was looking down at their intertwined hands. “Was I interrupting?”

  “Yes,” Eva growled.

  “Oh, good.” Earl laughed and picked up another pair of tongs. He played with them with a satisfied grin. They smiled at each other before Earl leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. “I think it would be a good idea if the fire was out there and not in here.” He scampered out the door.

  “We have to, don’t we?” Zoe asked.

  “Yes.” Eva helped Zoe down from the bench top. She watched Zoe pick up her cane and sighed. “Zoe-”

  “I’m fine, Evy. Really I am. Can you please stop worrying?” Zoe took Eva’s hand and held it. “You can’t worry all the time. I’m fine. I’ll prove it to you later.”

  Eva put her arm around Zoe’s shoulders. “Only if it doesn’t tire you out,” she said half joking.

  “Oh, no.” Zoe shook her head before gazing up. “It won’t tire me out at all, but I’m not sure about my old lady.” She chuckled as they left the kitchen and re-joined their family and friends outside.

  Chapter Three

  Zoe waited impatiently as Eva escorted Father Haralambos down the driveway. She could see the smile on Eva’s face and her less than leisurely walk back. Eva entered and closed the door. Zoe snaked her arms around Eva’s waist and smiled.

  Eva graced Zoe with a tender, lopsided smile and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.

  They looked at each other for a long time. “I love you so much,” Eva said hoarsely. “You are the best birthday present anyone could have given me.”

  “God, I love you.” Zoe traced a path with her soft lips across the proud chin, pausing to tease the dimple she loved so well. Eva took Zoe’s hand and led her to their bed.

  The look of lust in Eva’s eyes made Zoe’s heart nearly stop. She quickly unbuttoned Eva’s blouse and let it fall on the floor, followed by her bra, pants, and panties.

  They found themselves undressed and lying in each another’s arms in record time. Eva moved on top of Zoe, but Zoe rolled and broke free, pressing her own body against Eva’s.

  “Hey.” Eva pouted. “I’m supposed to be thanking you, remember? You’re not-”

  “Evy, I’m feeling much, much better.” Zoe cupped Eva’s face and kissed her gently on the lips. “Oh, you will thank me, love, but I haven’t finished giving you your birthday presents yet.”

  Zoe captured Eva’s mouth in a gentle kiss, teasing Eva with her tongue until she heard Eva’s breathless moan. Zoe broke off the kiss and stared down into Eva’s sparkling blue eyes, which had gone a shade darker.

  “You are so beautiful, Evy,” she said, her voice hoarse with desire. “The older you get, the more beautiful you become. Do you know how gorgeous you are when you’re excited?”

  Zoe kissed Eva and her hands began running over her soft, warm flesh. Eva drew in a sharp breath and held it as Zoe’s fingers barely touched the dark circles around her nipples. She released the breath with an audible exclamation when she felt Zoe’s fingers, at last, pressing against the sensitive flesh.

  “Oh, yesss...” Eva moaned.

  Zoe resumed her kisses, nipping at Eva’s neck, her fingers continuing to trace erotic patterns along the length of Eva’s body. Eva’s hands ran down the length of Zoe’s back, ending up squeezing her backside. Zoe took control and moved her body lower, positioning her mouth over Eva’s breasts, letting her warm breath caress them.

  Hovering just above the creamy flesh, her breath spilling across the tightened nub, she nipped at the skin lightly, pausing and lifting her head. Zoe smiled to herself, wondering just how much of this torture her lovely wife could take. She soon received her answer.

  Eva whimpered and twined her fingers in Zoe’s hair, urging her back down. Zoe brushed her lips against the already hard nipples, flicking her tongue across the taut flesh, and when Eva drew in a deep breath, Zoe licked her lips and took the pebbled flesh into her mouth.

  Eva groaned loudly and tightened the grasp she had in her lover’s hair, pressing the head more tightly to her breast, arching into the pleasure.

  All too soon Zoe stopped, smiling at Eva’s tortured groan at the loss of the intense sensation. She trailed soft kisses down her body. Her hands skimmed across the entire surface as if trying to memorize Eva’s form, igniting raging fires wherever they went.

  Eva’s constant moans only served to encourage her. When Zoe let one hand slide down to caress a muscular thigh, Eva’s legs unconsciously parted.

  By this time Zoe’s lips and tongue were weaving a sensuous path of pleasure down the flat plane of Eva’s abdomen, pausing to tease with her tongue just along the hairline that separated the smooth skin from the dark curls below. This time it was Zoe’s turn to moan as the perfume of Eva’s passion rose up to greet her. Zoe moved her mouth lower and licked around the edges of Eva’s triangle of wiry curls, running her tongue seductively along the skin where thigh met sex. Zoe felt her lover spread her legs wider, her hips rising up in a silent plea for more contact. Eva’s hands grasped the pillow under her head.

  Zoe continued her deliberate seduction, all but ignoring the rise of Eva’s hungry body. Zoe trailed soft kisses along the inside of Eva’s thighs.

  “Zo,” Eva husked out, entwining her fingers in Zoe’s once again.

  “Yes, love?” Zoe answered innocently, reaching out with her tongue and descending lower.

  “Good Lord, Zoe…please, love…I…”

  “One word, my love…all it takes is one little word.” Zoe punctuated the statement by gliding her tongue lightly along the entire length of Eva’s sex.

  “Ohhh…” Eva groaned. “Zoe...” she thrust her hips up again. “Pleassssee.”

  “Yep, that was the right one.” Zoe grinned, but the smile was lost on her wife, whose blue eyes hazed over in a cloud of passion.

  Zoe settled her mouth gently against the warm, wet center. She slid her tongue through the curls for a taste of her lover. Both women moaned loudly, Zoe’s voice vibrating against Eva’s skin. Eva thrust her hips up harder, rocking against her lover’s mouth.

  “Ohhh…yesss…” Eva held tightly to Zoe’s hair. “Yes…yesss…there…like that…”

  Zoe licked tenderly around the wet folds of flesh, eventually changing the pressure to long, deliberate strokes, as the rhythm of Eva’s hips picked up its pace. She flicked the tip of her tongue against the engorged bundle of nerves, and Eva cried out.

  Eva jerked and convulsed as the powerful climax hit her, holding tightly to Zoe’s hair, pulling her closer, deeper into her.

  “Zo…eeee” Eva loudly shouted out her passion, and then continued to move against her after only a moment’s pause.

  For her part, Zoe had never felt Eva respond to her this intently before. As soon as her first orgasm began to fade, another rocked her. Zoe’s continued caresses carried Eva along on a wave of pure pleasure, and Eva shook and shivered until she let her arms fall limply to her sides, her legs weakly stretching out on the bed.

  Zoe crawled up to lay her head on Eva’s chest, both women still panting and gasping for air. They lay in each other’s arms for what seemed like hours, delightfully satisfied.

  Finally able to find her v
oice, Eva wrapped her arms around Zoe and held her tightly. “Oh, Zo... I…I…” she stammered uncharacteristically.

  Zoe lifted her head and giggled. “I love you too, Evy,” she finished. “Oh, and by the way, happy birthday.” She smiled.

  Chapter Four

  “I do love those eyes,” Eva said.

  “You do?” Zoe asked.

  “Oh, yes...I have a thing for them.”

  “You don’t say.”

  “Hmm. Always had. Green eyes make me weak at the knees.” Eva kissed Zoe. They parted and smiled at each other. “I've got another secret you may not know about—redheads are my weakness.” She nuzzled Zoe’s neck, causing Zoe to laugh and squirm off her. Eva turned sideways to face Zoe and gently kissed her again. She wrapped her long arms around Zoe's naked body, closed her eyes, and sighed contentedly. Zoe watched Eva intently and for a long moment wasn’t sure what Eva was doing.

  “Evy, what are you doing?”

  “Lying naked here with you.” Eva opened her eyes and smiled.

  “Why did you close your eyes?”

  “I was praying,” Eva admitted.

  Zoe blinked at her. “You pray after we make love?”

  “No, but I wanted to thank God for not taking you from me.” Eva stroked Zoe’s face tenderly.

  “Have you ever wondered what God thinks every time we make love?” Zoe asked.

  Eva shook her head slowly. “No, I don't think I've ever thought about that. Have you?”

  “Oh, yes. I wonder what He thinks every time He hears ‘Mein Gott! Zo...hiccup...eeee.’” Zoe grinned. “Do you know that when you’re aroused your eyes go the most amazing deep shade of blue?”

  “I can’t see myself when I’m aroused, so I’ll take your word for it,” Eva responded a little shyly.

  “It’s true.” Zoe smiled and brushed Eva’s hair off her face. “They go a shade darker, but I remember in Larissa, your eyes were almost navy blue and I couldn’t figure out why.”

  “You saw my eyes change color?”

  “Yes, they were almost navy blue rather than light blue. It must have been the light or the angle I was sitting at.”

  Eva gazed down at Zoe with a puzzled expression. “I was just allowing myself to think how beautiful you looked there, half naked on the floor.”

  “I wasn’t half naked on the floor. It was a hot day.”

  “I had hoped you would take your shirt off,” Eva admitted and giggled. “Now if you had done that, I would have been a sobbing mess on the floor, but that didn’t stop me from thinking about it. I was torn between doing something about my feelings and the pain be damned.”

  “Was that the first time you allowed yourself to do that?”

  Eva shook her head. “Yes. I would stop before I thought about doing anything like think of you naked. That was too much.”

  “I’ve never seen your eyes that color again, but when we make love, they nearly get to that color.

  “Oh,” Eva replied. “I thought if I tried not to look, I would be alright. It was very difficult not to pay attention.”

  “It was a bit hard not to look at me since I was your maid.”

  Eva rolled over and put her arm across Zoe’s bare waist. “That’s why it was hard. It was hard to watch and not let the feelings I was having for you take over my mind.”

  “So that day we went up to Athena’s Bluff was the day you finally surrendered.”

  Eva smiled and nodded. “I surrendered to my feelings that day knowing what it would bring. I’ve told you that before.”

  “You have, but every time I think about it, I remember the look you had in your eyes when I was taking your hose off and feel silly that I didn’t recognize it for what it was.”

  “How could you, love? You were young and didn’t know anything about the aversion treatments and what touching me like that would to do to me. I allowed you to do that so it was my choice.”

  “You made a choice to let me touch you like that and allow your control to slip. I’m in awe of your strength, Evy. Knowing what I know about the aversion torture, I would never have done that.”

  “It was worth it.” Eva smiled. “If I close my eyes and think back to that day, I can still feel your hands and I get this bubble of happiness inside me.”

  “I think that was the first time I flirted with you, and I didn’t know how to flirt so...”

  Eva laughed and kissed Zoe tenderly on the lips. “Oh, you were doing a very good job of it.”

  “I remember that day and it was just so beautiful. You were gorgeous. You were wearing a light blue dress and two buttons were undone, which showed off your gold cross. You had a white belt and white gloves. You wore your hair up that day, which was just so beautiful.”

  “I sometimes forget what a great memory you have.”

  Zoe giggled. “I didn’t understand why my body was reacting the way it was to you. I felt funny.”

  “You were heading into heavy like.”

  Zoe nodded. “I finally understood why none of the boys that Kiria Despina would want to introduce me to was of any interest to me.”

  The two women looked at each other for a moment. “Because we don’t like boys,” they said in unison and laughed.

  “I had never felt that way before about anyone. When you kissed me for the first time, it made sense.”

  “As first kisses go, that wasn’t the way I wanted it to pan out.”

  “You knew what was going to happen if you did kiss me.”

  Eva nodded. “I knew, but did it anyway. Kissing you was worth the pain,” she replied quietly. “It was worth every minute of it.” She leaned in for a passionate kiss.

  “Oh, like that,” Zoe said breathlessly. “No one can kiss like you. Not that I have anyone to compare it with, but I don’t need to compare. When we made love for the first time, I thought my heart would explode.”

  “Just had to wait for a little bit of time,” Eva admitted. “It was worth the wait. Making love to you for the first time was just…”

  “I know, Evy.” Zoe leaned over and kissed her tenderly on the lips. She rested her head on Eva’s shoulder and sighed. Eva looked down at her with a smile.

  Zoe traced the scar on Eva’s shoulder. “So who was your first?”

  “My first what?”

  “Lover.”

  “Why are we talking about this?”

  “Because I want to know.”

  “I knew there had to be a good reason,” Eva quipped and tenderly kissed the top of Zoe’s hair. “Not who you think.” She wrapped her arms around Zoe and looked down at her.

  “You mean it wasn't that she-demon?” Zoe rolled over Eva and looked at her between her breasts. Eva tried to capture Zoe’s mouth but Zoe moved her head away. “Ah. No kissing until you tell me.”

  “Oh, Zoe...”

  “No kissing.” Zoe kissed her fingers and put them gently on Eva’s lips. ”You talk first.”

  “Do I have to?”

  “Yes, you have to.”

  Eva looked into Zoe’s eyes and smiled. “If I must.”

  “You must. I thought you said the she-demon was your first?”

  “She-demon? Greta was my first female lover, but she wasn’t my first.”

  “Really? Wow.” Zoe blinked. “Do you want to share?”

  Eva laughed. “It’s not romantic in any way.”

  Zoe looked down at Eva and grinned. “Now you have to tell me.”

  “Why?”

  “Because I’m your wife, and as your wife, I have a right to know who’s had sex with you. That’s why,” Zoe stated and tweaked Eva’s chin. “There’s also this matter of having a fondness for green-eyed women.”

  “Redheaded and green eyed. Oh well, in that case.” Eva put her hand behind Zoe’s head and pulled her down for a long passionate kiss. They broke and smiled at each other. “Okay, I’ll tell you.”

  “That was sneaky, Miss Eva. Now let me get comfortable.” Mindful of Eva’s back, Zoe shifted from on top of E
va to lie beside her, her arm wrapped around Eva’s waist.

  “Why did you move? I was enjoying that.”

  “Your back won’t like me being on top of you like that.” Zoe shifted and hitched herself up on her elbow to look at Eva.

  “My back is fine.”

  “It won’t be if I’m sitting on top of you. Now tell me. I have a better understanding of how painful it is after these past few weeks, so don’t tell me it won’t.”

  Eva turned sideways and faced Zoe. She intertwined her long fingers with Zoe’s smaller ones and smiled. “I was thirteen years old and I had an inkling I didn’t like boys.”

  “What was the inkling?”

  “I had a huge crush on this girl that I just couldn't stop thinking about.”

  “Ooh, was she pretty?”

  “Not as gorgeous as you.”

  “Oh, you are a smooth talker,” Zoe teased. “So you had a crush on this girl. Who was she?”

  “Do you remember my friend Wilhelm?”

  “Willie? Yes, but he isn't a girl.”

  “No, but his sister was. Very much a girl.” Eva smiled. “Leila. She was just so cute, with red hair and the most amazing green eyes...” She stopped and stared off into space.

  “Hello, Eva.” Zoe snapped her fingers in front of Eva’s face.

  Eva burst out laughing.

  “You sneak, I thought you had just drifted off down memory lane.”

  “You’re jealous.”

  “No, I’m not.”

  “Yes, you are. You don’t have to be—she wasn’t interested in me.”

  “Stupid girl. Why not?”

  “I was this thirteen-year-old pest, and she was this most elegant creature.”

  “How old?”

  “Eighteen.” Eva smiled. “I was always at Willie's house. I sometimes practically lived there. Aunt Marlene even gave me my own room.”