Bella was sitting on the edge of the bed trying to coax her monkey back inside. “Well, I was ransacking your room for your clothes. I pulled your dr...wers out and started stuffing as many of them as I could into a duffel, and then you called me down. Jack must have thought we were robbing the place and kept going after I left.”“You trained him to commit larceny?” Will was simultaniously amused and horrified.Bella gave a small guilty shrug. Janie looked agast.“Oh, I like you,” Captain Vex said. It might suit others but it just wasn’t for him. Stephen had no idea who this girl was but she felt just wonderful lying there on his chest and stomach. In his mind she just became ‘The girl in the dark’.After a few moments Stephen found himself running his hands up and down the back of this female on top of him. She didn’t say a word but pulled herself up closer to his face and kissed his lips in the dark. Stephen kissed those lips back. He ran his hands down her back again and found her. Because he'd muttered angrily both eyes suddenly filling with tears, itwas after one Christmas Eve service some eight years earlier that hisfather had been found lying dead on the kitchen floor when they'dreturned home. Apparently he too when drunk had been blasphemous aboutthem just before they'd left for church and why Brendan always felt justlike his grandmother, his mother had since unjustly and unreasonablyhated the wee folk all the more for it.Knowing that Siobhan had always fiercely. I lie next to you and you roll closer to me and lay your hand on my chest. My arm is wrapped around you and the closeness I feel warms me. I roll over onto my side to get both arms around you and to again feel the life inside you as your heart beats so close to mine. We hug and I feel your breath on my neck. We both pull back and look into each other’s eyes. There is no question now as to what is about to happen. We know that before the night is over we will become one. Joined in desire..