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patting the couch. “I didn’t bring my swimsuit.”
     
    “I don’t own one,” he replied.
     
    Raina again felt her face warm and redden, but the heat of her face was nothing compared to the heat that was starting to build between her legs. You came out here to talk, she told herself silently, Didn’t you?
     
    As she sat on the padded bench, she could see the curtains being pulled closed on the sliding doors going back into the clubhouse. Neil saw the question in her face and said, “I told them I wanted some privacy tonight.” He chuckled. “There are some advantages to being the President of the Reapers. My wish is often their command.”
     
    He sat beside her and turned slightly toward her. “Your father and I are a lot alike in many ways,” he said. “We are both in positions of power.”
     
    He was sitting with his arm on the top of the couch so that his shoulder was available, but he made no attempt to pull Raina onto his chest. When she snuggled against him, however, he did bring his arm around her.
     
    They sat in silence for several minutes. Finally Raina replied, “The difference is in the way you use your power. You offer it to people. Daddy forces it on people.”
     
    There was another long pause. This was not a conversation that could be hurried because there was much more happening than just the words. The mind and body and emotions behind the words needed time to catch up with the whirlwind of events that had brought them to this moment.
     
    Neil broke the silence. “Sometimes you have to use force. Your father and I both know that.”
     
    “Sometimes you don’t,” Raina answered. “He doesn’t know that .” She was surprised at how rapidly she had answered and at how cold her voice had suddenly become.
     
    Neil said nothing. He gently pulled her more tightly into his chest. Then they sat in silence looking at the lights of the town, and the moon and stars in the night sky. In the far distance, the hills created a darker shadow where the sky met the ground.
     
    “I’ve never met anyone like you,” he finally said softly. “Or maybe I’ve never met anyone I was attracted to as much. I want to know you better. I want you to know me.” His voice changed, “But I won’t force you. You have the freedom to refuse at any point. Just say, ‘Take me home,’ and your wish is my command.”
     
    Raina stood up. Neil’s face was almost expressionless, but his eyes showed his fear that she was going to ask him to take her home. Instead, she began unbuttoning the tight leather jacket.
     
    “The freedom to refuse is also the freedom to choose,” she said. “I’m not truly free unless I can make either choice. For now, I choose to get in the hot tub and watch the stars.”
     
    Neil sat on the couch and watched her slowly remove the leathers, and then the light blue blouse and white shorts she wore under them. She turned away from him as she undid her bra, and hesitated slightly before sliding her panties to the floor. Then she turned to face him.
     
    “Are you going to join me?” she asked. “Or am I going to have to guess where the other end of that snake tattoo actually ends?”
     
    He laughed, and a few moments later pushed a button on the side of the house and joined her in the bubbling hot tub. The snake, whose head was visible on his right bicep, curled across his back and coiled down around his left leg, stopping just short of his knee.
     
    They sat in the bubbles and talked. Fifteen minutes later, he got out of the tub and again pushed the button to turn on the pump. When he returned, she lay with her back against him as he stroked her breasts and stomach. Fifteen minutes later, he again reset the pump timer. She was now more or less floating on the water in front of him with her hands on his shoulders as he stroked her back. After the next 15 minutes, it was Raina who got out of the tub. When she returned, she didn’t float on the water or sit alongside Neil on the