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the shadow of the structure. It gave them some privacy,
but reflections of the lights still sparked off his face and glittered like
fireworks in his light eyes as he dragged her into his arms.
    Not too far away, a band performing in one of the
restaurants played lively dance music.
    Although he was several inches taller, she fit nicely
against him. The scent of the smoke in the bar earlier and the food from the
restaurant still clung to him, mixing with the remnants of an expensive,
designer fragrance embedded in his clothes and the essential male aroma of
Raje.
    When his mouth came down on her, the world rocked. At least
if felt that way to her. The warmth of his lips seeped into hers and spread
along every inch of her skin. His lips teased hers, rousing a fountain of heat
deep in her gut. It pumped a lava flow of desire through her body. No man had
ever kissed her like that, or maybe she’d never felt so close and connected
already to the man kissing her. Whatever the reason, the experience was a
revelation.
    He didn’t hold her for long, and she moaned lightly when he
pulled back and released her.
    The lights danced in his eyes when he said, “I have a room
at a hotel a little ways down. But I plan to stop and kiss you at every bridge
between here and there. If you want.”
    “Is that a promise?”
    He studied her face for a moment and his grin broadened into
a smile. A great smile, with wicked grooves bracketing the sensual mouth. “Oh,
yeah,” he said.
    The next bridge was only twenty feet away. The plain brick
arch had so many strings and bunches of lights draped over it, there were no
dark, shadowy places around it. Oblivious to any potential audience he stopped
near its edge and kissed her anyway. It was no safe peck either. He drew her to
him and rubbed his lips back and forth over her mouth, sucked her bottom one
between his and nibbled at it until she opened, inviting him farther in. Their
tongues touched and tangled. It felt as though a part of him flowed into her
through that contact and filled all the empty places in her heart and soul.
    By the time he drew back she could barely stand. Her legs
had begun to wobble and the heat inside her became a fire, while her cunt
swelled and oozed moisture. It made walking a challenge.
    Next to a fantasy concoction of dancing figures of light
that ran along the tops of the rails, he kissed his way across her cheek to her
ear, nibbled on a lobe and teased the tender skin beneath it.
    The next span had a more gothic theme, since it led into a
mock horror house. They stood beneath eerily lit skeletons and dark ghoulish shapes.
He ran a finger around the joint of her shirt and trousers to release the tape
that fastened top and bottom together. The fabric parted at her waist, letting
him reach under her shirt and rest his hands on the bare skin of her sides.
Warmth and tingling shocks drove into her where he touched. She waited for him
to go higher. Her breasts ached for it, but instead he pulled back again.
    “The hotel is right over there,” he said, pointing to a
five-story building looming on their right. “Just two more bridges before we
get to it. Or would you rather go back and circle around again?”
    “No.” It came out as a breathy protest and he grinned at it.
    “Good.”
    At a span that looked like a series of puffs of cotton,
rising higher and higher until they peaked and sank again, he licked, kissed
and nipped at her throat. She couldn’t keep her hands off him this time and
managed to draw his shirt loose from the trousers. She worked her fingers up
his chest, almost melting with the feel of his warm, firm skin and the light
coating of hair.
    Her breath heaved in and out in huge gulps by the time he
pulled away again.
    “I don’t know if I can do one more without dragging you to
the ground and ripping your clothes off right here in public,” he admitted.
    “Good. Forget another bridge. Let’s go.”
    They joined hands and ran toward the hotel. As