Chapter 30

"Yes, yes," Erica murmured as Nico gave one last thrust, forceful enough to knock her and the door against a nearby accent table. As the vase of flowers clattered to the floor with a tinkle of glass, they came together in a shuddering, mutual explosion.

"Oh, oh," she finally gasped, "I think we might have broken something."

"Besides my back," he chuckled. "That's okay, we'll put it on our tab."

With Erica still wrapped around him, Nico took them the queen-sized bed and laid her gently along the batik spread. Yet before he could pull away, she grabbed him by the shirt lapels and pulled him across her prone body. Mouths sought and found each other once more, this time in a slow, enduring embrace of lips and tongues until they both came up for air.

Nico peered into her eyes. "Well, now that we've taken care of those preliminary lusts, how about starting our little holiday?"