Even now at the start, my senses are becoming overwhelmed – the sound of your short, rapid breathing, the feel of your hair between my fingers, the ...mell of your natural perfume, the taste of your skin, the sight of the hunger in your exquisite features. I pull you against me, my lips touching yours for the first time as we enter the embrace. First delicately, softly, building a rhythm of short kisses. Then, as our embrace tightens, the kisses become deeper and longer. My tongue asks permission. He had given her a spare key to his front door so she would bring her computer bag and everything she needed for work over to his condo and drink a glass of juice while waiting for him to arrive. Their kisses were still relatively platonic, but they were occurring more frequently and were no longer just being delivered by her. She couldn’t talk him into removing his wetsuit on the patio for her yet, but ever since he had described his normal routine for rinsing the sand off everything, she had. "You're all as bad as each other!" snapped Morgana. "Now let's get on with this. We have souls to save and a reckoning for whoever violated my house!" As you wish, Mage Morgana," Antonelli replied with a sideways glance at me.No matter how well our eyes were enhanced to see in the dark, there were powers afoot to make the tunnels seem claustrophobic and gave off the impression that at any stage something was about to leap out and attack."Subsonic emanations," Simone finally announced. "Not. Now please go away and leave me to my work." Taking over the world again?" No, something else entirely today." "Well Fruit Salad." Fruitcake! For God's sake!" I corrected him again."As I was saying. It's the police that normally have to clean up after your evil schemes. I don't like your sort to start with. Now stay out of trouble and watch that robot." Yes officer. I shall remember what you said."This time he did leave and I managed to slam the door, causing a rack of test tubes to leap into.