I swirl my tongue around and between his fingers.Hmm . . . even I taste good on his fingers.His hands skim up my arms to the cuffs above my head, and ...e unclips them, freeing me. Turning me around so I'm facing the wall, he tugs on my hair, pulling me into his arms. He angles my head to one side and skims his lips up my throat to my ear while holding me flush against him."I want in your mouth." His voice is soft and seductive. My body, ripe and ready, clenches deep inside. The pleasure is sweet. “The previous perimeter, the Donner Line, was sundered in four places, of course. So many local volunteers in a paltry excuse for a hastily recruited home guard ... it’s no surprise that they couldn’t hold. Many were armed well enough, but mustered with undue haste and sent into battle as green as frogs.“Poor, unlucky bastards! The lads broke and ran at Burns and Hines, and then at Madras. It didn’t help them that we’ve secured the Cascade Mountains and could rain serious artillery fire down on. How is it that a woman as beautiful as the woman I was in bed with could fall in love with an ordinary guy like me?“If we can’t ‘be in love’ with each other, can we still be lovers?” I asked her.She waited a long time to answer, “Tonight, we can be anything we want… tomorrow, that’s another question. I don’t know. I guess we’ll need to talk it out with our spouses. I think they might have the same quandary.”I fervently hoped in a way that they did. But in the back of my mind was also the fear. Instead of pretending to browse the wares of each merchant she truly did so, causing raised eyebrows among the Priestesses and girls alike when she returned more excited about her purchases that any of the boys she’d seen. She’d been left to her desires for a month, then called into the head Priestess’s sanctum chamber to account for herself. She knew it was rare that a girl went this long without coming back with reddened cheeks and shining eyes to giggle with friends over this boy or that..