Now it was Mary whose breath was catching in her throat. His tongue invaded her while his hands removed her veils from her hair and face. Almost reve...ently he sat up on his knees and unbuttoned her dress all the way to the hemline baring her chest, belly and legs. His kisses following where his hands went. ‘Habibti, je t’aime,’ he breathed in her ear in his mixture of French and Arabic when his lips had trailed her whole body from top to bottom and back again. So he called her beloved and told. Now that I have seen your reaction, yes."She stood and began to walk to one of the perimeter booths and as we neared it, the bartender was walking away, having left a new bottle of wine and, to my surprise, a glass of my preferred drink, Crown Royal on the rocks. I had never told Michelle that it was my preferred libation, and had only shared the bottles of wine on our one night together."How did he know what I drink?" I told him." How do you..." Never mind that. There are lots of things that I. Do you still doubt my right to wear it?” I demanded as the Amethyst of the Emblem glowed brightly in response to my words. Both Dragons hastily backed up on seeing this.“Yes, she is the rightful Queen. The Emblem would not have reacted if she weren’t. She would also be dead long before now, if she wasn’t the heir,” the Red Dragon told the Light Blue one.“There is that,” the Light Blue Dragon admitted. “But she is so very young and doesn’t have the wisdom of the previous Queens to rule wisely,”. …running out of things to say… They finished a second and then a third bottle of wine together, it was late. He didn’t want to go to bed…he wanted to enjoy every possible minute with her…with the woman he had fallen in love with fifteen years earlier…he now understood that she was the only woman he had ever been in love with. … a kiss…that old familiar pain …. She kissed him…he was back in school…her lips…he felt the old familiar pain and wonderand he kissed her back…and his arms went around.