They went over us, and the cute lady asked me, ‘Uh, couldn’t that be rescuers?’ ‘Think about it, Ma’am,’ I asked her, ‘it’s been less ...han an hour since the attack on us. These are the jungles of South America. Who would know a failed kidnap or murder attempt had been made on you, and have a helicopter out here searching already?’ I couldn’t see her face, but I heard her say, ‘Oh shit!’ My suspicions were verified when someone in the copter that had passed overhead opened up at something in. ’ ‘What if your life was put into danger, but I’d attempt to protect you?’ ‘I would still stick by you, Blade. What are you trying to say?’ ‘I love you so much, Vanessa,’ Blade sighed as we walked through the opening onto the beach. ‘I want you for the rest of my life. I want to make love with you and you to be my first. I want to feel our bodies become one.’ Swiftly, Blade wrapped his arm around me and pulled me close. I looked into his eyes, almost in tears. Our lips touched, so warm as. Even the wind had died and the thick full flakes kissed the ground around the store, settling thick and even on the road. The sky was full of grey cloud, not a patch of blue anywhere. Although it was still the morning, it was almost as dark as night, the snow glistening in the glow from the electric lights from the store windows. The bike slowed, and turned, parking in front of the store, by the steps leading up to the sidewalk.The rider wore a long leather coat, hat and goggles, his front. "Let me worry about that." She said easing me back with her fingertips pressed against my bare skin, it almost tickled and it did make me squirm a bit, getting under the covers and stretching out so I took up most of the single bed we shared sometimes. "Yawn." I made a teasing comment as she walked to the side of the bed."Shut up!" She responded, grasping my face in between her slender fingers, and squeezing just a bit to get my attention. I could feel her shiny painted nails push against my.