Chapter 60: Lorelei's Desires...

Lorelei paused, as if gathering her thoughts. Then she looked directly at him. "I want to truly unleash my affections upon you, master. I want to fill your life with everything you desire, including the desires that you do not yet voice. I want you to have as many deep, romantic relationships as you might enjoy. I want to be your servant, your protector, your mentor, your most intimate friend and your lover. I want to build for you an adoring harem of such devotion, beauty and wanton sexuality that it would leave the most decadent of kings and emperors choking with envy. I want to aid you in an endless string of casual trysts and sensual conquests of whoever strikes your fancy. I want you to take me and enjoy me and love me without the slightest restraint, and know that I am forever yours."

Her words were met by two wide-eyed stares and a single, shared word: "Wow."

Lorelei's smile smoldered with love and wickedness. "You demanded an answer, and I cannot lie to you. You are my master, my victim, and my love. Your desires prompt my own. Your pleasures feed me. Do not be deceived; my desires are entirely selfish."

She then chuckled a bit, and leaned over Taylor again. "I should also admit that I have more than a little desire for you." With that, she planted a deep, aggressive kiss upon the younger woman. With her hands she ground Taylor's hips against Alex's until she had set them both off on unexpectedly quick orgasms. The kiss Lorelei left Taylor with was long and passionate, and was quite the spectacle for Alex.

The succubus finally withdrew to allow her partners their afterglow. Taylor twitched and twisted until Alex helped her turn around to curl up in his arms. He held her gently, but his eyes were on Lorelei, who looked on at her accomplishments here with pride.

"I love you," he mouthed silently. "So much."

Lorelei just nodded and winked knowingly. Then she rose from the bed. "For all my desires, what matters most here this morning is the two of you. I should let you have some time together alone."

Taylor lifted her head, looking from one of them to the other with a concern that she couldn't really articulate. "I don't have anything to say to one of you but not the other," she said.

"You do. It's natural, Taylor. I am not worried. You came to the party last night looking for Alex, not me. He wanted very much to see you, too. You have a lot to talk about. And as we told you, I am bound to his pleasures. I certainly hope you will make love while I am out. Even then, you won't be making love with Alex alone."

As she moved off to slip into the bathroom for a shower, Taylor turned toward Alex. "She's really...? I feel dumb for asking this after everything she just said, but is she really okay with this?"

Alex grinned, laughing a little before he kissed her. "You're starting to sound like me."

Alex had noted that Lorelei seemed to be genuinely fond of his longtime crush. He watched as a completely naked Taylor melted in his lover's arms and then allowed her to pull away.

"I'll be back before too long," Lorelei said when she returned. "But I need Alex for a moment or two outside, if that's alright with you?"

"Sure," Taylor smiled, her hands lingering before the two parted. With everything that had happened, Taylor settled back into the bed. She watched as Lorelei, clad in a casual but sexy blue dress, tossed Alex one of the suite's bathrobes and led him outside.

The moment the door shut, they were in one another's arms with lips and tongues intertwined. All weekend long, Alex had at the forefront of his mind the thought that he would never, ever really have enough of her. The kiss was just one small part of that, but it was every bit as awe-inspiring as the rest.

"Thank you for this," he said softly.

"No. Thank you, master. This is wonderful. She's almost as delicious as you. I'm beginning to develop an addiction to good-hearted people," Lorelei grinned.

"I meant this whole weekend. Everything. You."

She looked at him with a glimmer of joy in her eye. "Reward me by enjoying yourself," she said, bringing her hands up his chest and then around his neck. "Enjoy her. Talk. Make love. Hold back nothing. And remember that I am yours. Nothing between the two of you or any other lover can sever us."

Alex grinned back at her. "Not after that monologue you just delivered in there."

"You liked that? I feared it might be too much too fast."

"It probably was, but I still want to hear it over and over again. God, I am so in love with you."

"Good. Then don't worry about me. You must focus on her. Alex, I have tasted her desires. I suspect you would rather I respect her privacy than tell you, but that must be your decision. My first loyalty will always be to you."

He blinked for a minute, considering it, but nodded. "It means a lot to me that you consider my conscience. I would feel really bad if you told me too much."

"As I thought," Lorelei nodded back. "I will say this, however: do not push for too much too fast. This is already somewhat overwhelming to her."

"It's overwhelming to me, too."

"I know. I just don't want to see you inclined to rush things between you because of your popular culture's obsession with aggrandizing young love. There is a very big world out there. I would not have made a point of reuniting you with your high school crush had she not all but literally fallen into your lap the way she did. I need not remind you that if this does not work out you certainly won't go through life broken-hearted and alone."

"I think I get what you're saying. Honestly, I didn't think I'd ever see her after graduation. I was shocked as hell to run into her again."

Lorelei nodded. "Consider that she might not have become so interested in you now had you not already made your peace with losing her."

"Are you always going to counsel me on how to handle other women?" he smiled.

"Would you like me to repeat my 'monologue?'" Lorelei answered. She pulled him closer to wrap him in another long and loving kiss before she released him. "Go to her. Decide where to go from here, or leave it unspoken as you wish. Make any arrangement you want. I would be more than happy to be ruthlessly used as a bargaining chip," the succubus added with a wink. "I'll be back in a while, after I have attended some other matters."

Alex didn't ask what those were. He simply nodded, said, "I love you," and went back inside.

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Rachel sat perched on the balcony railing of the honeymoon suite. It was the sort of position that could only be comfortable for someone who had grace and balance beyond mortal capacity. The cold rain didn't really bother her, either. She was fine with the way it left her white dress clinging to her body. In fact, it was probably for the best. It kept her from overheating.

Watching the suite all morning, and all through the night before, had left her feeling very hot indeed. She had to keep her hands pinned under her butt because she had no idea who might fly past while she tried to relieve the maddening heat between her legs.

Rachel was absolutely enthralled by what she could see and hear going on in her charge's bed. She was therefore very startled when she heard the voice behind her ask, "Have you been here watching them all this time?"

Rachel yelped, jumping off the rail and whirling around. Floating there on angelic wings was Julia, Taylor's guardian angel. Where Rachel herself looked fairly close to Alex and Taylor's ages, Julia looked old enough to be Taylor's mother. Her divinely beautiful mother, but older nonetheless. But age and image were very relative things among angels. The only real difference here was that the outward appearance of greater age and maturity really only emphasized the expression of suspicion and disapproval on Julia's face.

"Uh, yeah," Rachel said, recovering quickly. "I'm, like, guarding? Like a guardian?"

"Like a voyeur," Julia said dryly. Her arms were folded across her chest.

"Call it whatever you want," Rachel shrugged, "point is I'm on the fuckin' job."

Julia just shook her head. "Peace. I may disapprove of much here, but I do not mean to judge you. Nor am I blind to your predicament. Nor would I call into question your devotion to your charge."

Rachel let some of her hostility and frustration go with a huff. "Thanks," she said, brushing strands of soaking wet hair from her face.

"As I say, though, this does not exactly meet with my favor. Has the whore thoroughly corrupted my Taylor?"

"No. Lorelei hasn't done anything that we could act on. And I don't think I'd call it corruption, anyway. She's not... she doesn't do that anymore, remember?"

Julia shrugged with a frown. "I have heard your position in this. You'll forgive me if I reserve my judgment for now."

"Well, she's about to leave anyway. Taking off for wherever to give Alex and Taylor some time alone. And he's not at all a corruptor."

"They have been friends for several years. I have seen much more of him than you have." Rachel smirked, casting a meaningful glance back at the balcony door.

"Well," Julia huffed, "not like that."

Rachel's expression was unchanged. "They're kinda hot together. He looks better naked than you probably gave him credit for. Certainly better than Taylor expected. Seems like he can really use what he's got, too."

At that, Julia huffed again. "Alex was a fine young man, but it wasn't his physical appearance that kept him from having any chance with her before now. It was his lack of self-confidence and the way he wore his heart on his sleeve. He was looking for happiness from others that he should have been able to find in himself. It puts a girl off, you know."

Rachel's smirk turned to a wider grin. "Doesn't sound like the Alex I know. So I guess maybe this isn't just Lorelei's influence at work alone?"

Julia scowled, but granted Rachel's suggestion with honest consideration. "It's possible that in their year apart Alex grew considerably. I would grant that his recent trials have likely given him reason to feel more confident in himself." After a moment's pause, she added, "The Alex that I saw last night was a very different young man than the high school student I remember."

"Trials will do that to a person," Rachel shrugged. Her smile became sly and mischievous. "You sure you don't want to watch them for awhile?"

"I think not. I have other charges. You have only the one. I came in part to say that you are doing well as a guardian angel. Others had their doubts that a former messenger could rise to this, but all things considered I believe you are handling yourself quite well."

Rachel blinked. "Wow. Um. Thanks."

Julia nodded, allowing herself a bit of a smile. "And if the succubus steps an inch outside of her boundaries, I expect you to pitch her into the bay." With that, Julia soared away on her broad white wings.

Rachel let out a long, deep breath. Finally, she's gone, she thought. The praise meant a lot to her, really... but when she resumed her perch on the balcony rail, she was pleased to see that she hadn't really missed much of the show inside.